[I still care]

Everyone I know has been sick with this thing. It’s over two weeks you are ill. You think you are better, then you suddenly relapse. The relapse hits as hard as the first wave, in some cases harder.

It seems to be marked by a cough or bronchitis. Some people have huge amounts of phlegm. It also seems very virulent - races like wildfire. You can stop over someone’s house, walk right back out the door, and it seems in a few days you’ve got it.

I know someone who it hit so hard the first day he ended up unconcious on the floor. They had to call 911. Young kid.

[piytar]

Many of the things you say match the 1917-18 Spanish flu. But people aren’t dying en masse. And people like me with an over-reactive immune system would be dead by now in 1917-18. (The Spanish flu was particulrly deadly to demographics with strong immune systems - the immune response was fatal.)

So there are some similarities, but some very important differences.

Still, the similarities are worriesome, at least to me...

[Ticonderoga34]

Everyone I know has been sick with this thing. It’s over two weeks you are ill. You think you are better, then you suddenly relapse. The relapse hits as hard as the first wave, in some cases harder.

It seems to be marked by a cough or bronchitis. Some people have huge amounts of phlegm.

That's what happen to me.

I was sick all of December then I was OK during January and then I got hit hard the last week of January. Took entire week off work. First time I called off sick in 5 years.

Took some antibiotics and now I'm just about back to normal. Knock on wood.

[meowmeow]

It’s over two weeks you are ill. You think you are better, then you suddenly relapse. The relapse hits as hard as the first wave, in some cases harder. It seems to be marked by a cough or bronchitis. Some people have huge amounts of phlegm.

Yup. Had it before Christmas and lasted 3 weeks. Then DH had it. Then I got it again. Produced my body weight in snot I think. Went the doctor the second time for AB and also hit the Vit D extra hard and it went away pretty quickly.

Doc said I probably never got over the first one - bug just went quiet, mutated again and came back for another round.