Thanks.
I remember that got a lot of play here.
as an aside...I think (no proof) that my sister died of COVID in January 2020.
She stopped all treatment. It wasn’t an ogygen problem, she couldn’t expell carbon dioxide. Near as it was explained, her lungs filled with fluid and she drowned.
Oh my heart! That is so heartbreaking! I am so sorry that happened to your sister!
I got it in February of 2020. This woman who had just travelled from New York coughed in my face and another lady’s face in a hallway, so she and I both got quite the viral load and got very sick. My fever spiked to 102.9 and I truly felt like I was drowning my lungs were so full of fluid. It was scary. I have had a few really rotten diseases (including multi-drug resistant malaria), but it was the only time I thought I might die. I took nothing but Tylenol for the fever and suddenly got way, way better after day 3.
I so wish your sister had got better, too. That is just so tragic, and my heart goes put to you.
“as an aside...I think (no proof) that my sister died of COVID in January 2020.”
It could well have been circulating in the US earlier than was first suspected. IIRC the original virus attacked the lower respiratory system and made you susceptible to pneumonia. Your lungs could also be overwhelmed with debris from a cytokine storm, a massive overreaction of the immune system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8406387/
The original virus was dangerous because of its potential damage to the lungs. That virus and the variants that shared its spike protein ceased to circulate after vaccines became widespread. By contrast the current variants that elude the vaccines are upper respiratory, like a cold.