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I also had the worst ‘flu’ ever during Jan 2020....just a few months after having the ‘flu’ - which was the really odd part. I don’t get sick very often, so twice like that with largely the same symptoms - but way more acute the 2nd time - was very strange to me. In Jan 2020 I considered the hospital, I’ve never come close before.

I had a quick test for antibodies - negative. I still believe it was COVID.

What state were you in in Jan 2020?

I also had the worst ‘flu’ ever during Jan 2020....just a few months after having the ‘flu’ - which was the really odd part. I don’t get sick very often, so twice like that with largely the same symptoms - but way more acute the 2nd time - was very strange to me. In Jan 2020 I considered the hospital, I’ve never come close before.

I had a quick test for antibodies - negative. I still believe it was COVID.

Same here. January of 2020 I had the worst cough ever and I really never get sick that way. Usually with me it is either sinus or gastrointestinal but never a cough. Had it for over 2 weeks and only took 2 days off sick and powered through the rest of the time. I even woke up hacking and coughing in the middle of the night. Never happened to me before and hasn't since. I still think it was Covid since I was exposed to someone that came back from a trip to SE Asia in December 2019. Like an idiot, I waited until August to get the antibody test and the normal antibody test showed negative. I should have got the T-cell test I guess. Anyway, I ended up being Covid positive a year and two months later (March 2021) and wasn't near as sick as I was in January 2020. Who knows, I might have gotten a second case and perhaps it was mild because I had T-cells or B-cells or whatever the long lasting immunity is.