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Similar experience but late December/early Jan after a flight. I got a terrible cough and was laid up for a day and my youngest got Pneumonia and was notably "o
by tkahnoski 5y ago
Similar experience but late December/early Jan after a flight. I got a terrible cough and was laid up for a day and my youngest got Pneumonia and was notably "our-of-breath" for a few weeks afterwards.
So I have always wondered, however this occurred during holiday gatherings and no one else in the group really got it so I've kind of written it off as some 'other' less contagious virus.
- matthewdgreen 5y agoDid you lose your sense of smell or taste? I have dozens of friends who report a terrible cold with many of these symptoms during the Dec19-Jan20 time period. I had it myself. What's notable about all these anecdotes is that not a single one of them remembers experiencing the #1 most distinctive COVID symptom: losing the sense of smell. Of course, not every COVID sufferer experiences that, but you'd think if there was an outbreak of real COVID during that time we'd have heard a lot of reports of it. Take a look at all the people reporting being sick back then on this HN thread alone -- nobody leads with the most distinctive COVID symptom.
- mumubro 5y agoYup, same experience in Nov. 2019-early jan 2020. My roommate came back from China sick and passed it to me. I was the most sick I've been in my life, 'out-of-breath' symptoms and couldn't taste anything for about 3 weeks. Took me 2.5 months to fully recover.