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I had the worst cold I've experienced in a decade or more. Absolute loss of energy. Terrible aches; temperature all over the place. This was followed by two mon
by ttul 6y ago
I had the worst cold I've experienced in a decade or more. Absolute loss of energy. Terrible aches; temperature all over the place. This was followed by two months of bronchitis that is still ongoing and failed to respond to two different kinds of antibiotics (the implication being that it's not bacterial). I never got tested because testing was not easy to get in early March; serologies aren't being done yet where I live. I'm so curious: did I have _IT_?
- asdf21 6y agoYeah, probably.
- ImaCake 6y agoThere is finally a decent assay for serology so maybe you can get tested soon. It's not one of the "fast" assay kits (those suck) it is a proper laboratory assay (an "ELISA") that requires trained staff or at least an expensive machine to run.
- irq11 6y agoI had it (confirmed by a high-quality test), and never had a symptom beyond a mild cough. Somewhere between 20-50% of infections are believed to be completely asymptomatic: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena... (my anecdote isn’t as valid as a severity-biased anecdote?)