I was in Chinatown in SF late December 2019
Jan 4th, hit with high fever and nausea PLUS coughing, congestion. vertigo/headache intermittently
Basically a very bad flu and a very bad cold at the same time. No sense of smell or taste for about a week; actually very *strange* smell and taste for a bit after that. Meat and potatoes and other good stuff smelled disgusting.
I was quite sick for four days, up and ambulatory by the 5th day and back at work by the 11th.
My long capacity and power were diminished quite severely; I had run a half marathon in 2:20 a month before, I wasn’t able to run for three weeks and it took several months to get back to being able to do 10K. I’m still not where I was as far as longer distances.
Age: 59, weight at the time: 195 height 6’.
*LUNG* capacity, DOH!