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I had such stories. I got the sickest I've been in years back in the first week of Feb. Fever, chills, dry cough...I was in bed for a week. Then again had some

I had such stories. I got the sickest I've been in years back in the first week of Feb. Fever, chills, dry cough...I was in bed for a week. Then again had some light respiratory stuff in early March. I live alone, isolation was already starting in some places, and I'm fortunate enough to work somewhere that WFH is easy. I had plenty of "I might have already had it!" type conversations. So I got my antibody test last week at my primary care physician. Negative. Was just a bad flu, I guess.

JoeAltmaier 6y ago
Yeah there are three other flus going around. Folks forget that.
- jeremyjh 6y ago
  And there are vastly more people infected with them, especially in Dec/Jan. I'm so tired of hearing people's big flu story at this point.
saalweachter 6y ago
> So I got my antibody test last week at my primary care physician. Negative. Was just a bad flu, I guess. As someone who really hopes there will be a long-lasting immunity, I really, really hope you had a bad flu.
cowmoo728 6y ago
There's evidence that some subset of younger, healthier people may not produce measurable IgG antibodies. There was an initial study in China and additional preliminary work in Germany and Mayo Clinic. """ [Elitza Theel's] team has found that it's mostly the sickest patients — those who've been hospitalized — who produce IgG antibodies. And it appears that a small percentage of patients with milder cases of the disease aren't making the robust IgG antibodies. "This is very preliminary," Theel warned. "But there might be a differential immune response between very sick individuals and individuals who have a more mild course of disease." """ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/antibody-tests-can-t-yet-say-who-s-immune-covid-n1193321 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/antibody-tests-ca... Their definition of "mild" means that you didn't require hospital care. So if you're under ~30 and otherwise healthy, you may be one of the people who beat the infection by some other mechanism. Or you just had influenza. It's impossible to know for sure right now.
ericb 6y ago
My wife had something similar at about that time. I'm curious. Did yours turn into pneumonia within 48 hours? Did you have severe trouble breathing? She's getting the antibody test this week. She had also just been to a meeting with international (especially French) people the week before.
runawaybottle 6y ago
Same for me back in early February. When you think about it, how many people just ride out flu-like symptoms, and how many doctors order official test to confirm influenza? It’s possible this virus was in stealth mode all over the place for awhile last year.
simonh 6y ago
Most likely yes, I've had really severely bad flu twice in my life, it happens. Conversely my wife is a Nurse and she contracted Cov-19, confirmed by a test in early April, but fortunately it was a mild case, recovered ok and she's fine now just with a mild cough.

JoeAltmaier 6y ago

Yeah there are three other flus going around. Folks forget that.

jeremyjh 6y ago
And there are vastly more people infected with them, especially in Dec/Jan. I'm so tired of hearing people's big flu story at this point.

saalweachter 6y ago

> So I got my antibody test last week at my primary care physician. Negative. Was just a bad flu, I guess. As someone who really hopes there will be a long-lasting immunity, I really, really hope you had a bad flu.

cowmoo728 6y ago

There's evidence that some subset of younger, healthier people may not produce measurable IgG antibodies. There was an initial study in China and additional preliminary work in Germany and Mayo Clinic. """ [Elitza Theel's] team has found that it's mostly the sickest patients — those who've been hospitalized — who produce IgG antibodies. And it appears that a small percentage of patients with milder cases of the disease aren't making the robust IgG antibodies. "This is very preliminary," Theel warned. "But there might be a differential immune response between very sick individuals and individuals who have a more mild course of disease." """ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/antibody-tests-can-t-yet-say-who-s-immune-covid-n1193321 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/antibody-tests-ca... Their definition of "mild" means that you didn't require hospital care. So if you're under ~30 and otherwise healthy, you may be one of the people who beat the infection by some other mechanism. Or you just had influenza. It's impossible to know for sure right now.

ericb 6y ago

My wife had something similar at about that time. I'm curious. Did yours turn into pneumonia within 48 hours? Did you have severe trouble breathing? She's getting the antibody test this week. She had also just been to a meeting with international (especially French) people the week before.

runawaybottle 6y ago

Same for me back in early February. When you think about it, how many people just ride out flu-like symptoms, and how many doctors order official test to confirm influenza? It’s possible this virus was in stealth mode all over the place for awhile last year.

simonh 6y ago

Most likely yes, I've had really severely bad flu twice in my life, it happens. Conversely my wife is a Nurse and she contracted Cov-19, confirmed by a test in early April, but fortunately it was a mild case, recovered ok and she's fine now just with a mild cough.