At that point it was a cold. My wife occasionally works in an emergency room, so the advice she gave me is the same advice that anyone else with the same sympt

At that point it was a cold. My wife occasionally works in an emergency room, so the advice she gave me is the same advice that anyone else with the same symptoms would have from a doctor following the CDC's instructions. She just thought it was a seasonal virus. Edit: It wasn't until mid March that we (MA residents) suspected it was in the wild. Basically, there was a reported case that came through Logan airport in February, and then when it came out that the incubation period was 2 weeks and many cases just resembled a bad cold, everyone started to suspect that there were a lot of asymptomatic cases in the state that we didn't know about.