Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett (D-Detroit) was sick for weeks before she was officially diagnosed with COVID-19. She had a relentless headache and what she described as an “uncomfortable” and “weird” throat. She didn’t have a fever, and she could smell and taste. A loss of some of those senses have been reported by other coronavirus victims. Whitsett, and one of the doctors who initially treated her, thought she had a sinus infection. They were wrong. Her illness reached a breaking point on March 31, which happened to be the same day she took the COVID-19 test. She had already...