Posted on 03/21/2020 5:37:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I think I had it mid-February. Fever, chills, achy body. No coughing. Was back to normal in less than 24 hours.
The vast majority will gain immunity from mild cases before a vaccine ever hits the market
I had to take my husband to the ER at the end of Jan.He developed a cough that got progressively worse . He could not get his breath . I packed him up and took him to the ER right then. The tested for the flu and it came back negative. The did an exray and he had to have breathing because his oxygen level had dropped. The xray came back showing a spot on his lungs which the said looked like pneumonia. The doctor said whatever he had was viral.The sent him home wit a spack a Ventolin inhaler and some pills for helping suppress the cough. The next few nights we bad . The cough was so bad that we put him in the shower wit steam so he could get his breath. It was three weeks before he was over it and the whole family got it as well.
Do you think it was Covid-19???
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“I suspect that the virus has been around since Dec/Jan in the US and an unknown of people have already gotten it over the Winter and assumed it was bad cold or mild flu and treated it as such.”
That’s what I’m thinking too. I was hospitalized in late Jan. with a ‘mystery influenza A’ virus. But its symptoms closely match COVID-19, not influenza. They didn’t have test kits at the time to confirm it. They treated the symptoms from day 1. I hope it was COVID so I have immunity.
In this thread: a bunch of anecdotes about people getting maladies in the winter.
Counting raindrops.
I had a annoying cough for 3-4 days and felt tired, but no other symptoms in early January. It went away withing 7-10 days with additional rest. I attributed it to being outside in the cold more than usual in late December.
I am assuming that your question refers to the hyper sensationalism by the MSM, you have to consider that it's all about Impeachment Part II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4no04822NQ&feature=youtu.be
Above is a youtube link that has an animation of charts comparing Covid-19 with the other major dieseses since 2000. The charts show total deaths, and then later it looks at it by death rate.
The gist of it is - the Swine flu (H1N1) was pretty bad. Covid-19 at this stage of the game is way ahead of where the Swine flu was. I forget the exact numbers, but the number of deaths at day 78 for Covid-19 (a few days ago now) - it took the Swine flu 140 days to reach.
IF (a big if?) the trend continues, Covid-19 will have more deaths by March 23rd than H1N1 did in total (which lasted a year and a half?).
My apologies - I was wrong in saying that the TOTAL deaths would be greater than H1N1 in just a few days. It was the second set of charts - the death rate. IF trends continue - Covid-19 deaths will be increasing faster than H1N1 ever did.
Sorry about that.
There obviously were people who either DIDN'T get it or survived it.
It will be the same with this coronavirus.
Amazing, how it appears to be spreading so slowly at first before expanding very quickly.
As for the obvious public concealment of the severity and deadliness of the disease, I guess it’s human nature for politicians and administrators to fear the possible economic and social consequences of public knowledge of the symptoms and damage. Then they realize what the epidemic itself could do, if most people are eventually surprised by those effects.
It also appears that many people are more afraid of thinking about it than risking infection. Could that have something to do with IQ or more likely emotional fragility?
It SEEMS to be spreading more quickly however we are testing MORE so more cases, I believe that this has been in our country from Dec. and MANY have recovered already elderly that passed thought it was complications from the flu!! People who recovered also thought they had the flu!!!
So basically its not that bad but we are going to shutdown the country over it.
no-one should repeat the 3.4% figure. it is rubbish.
besides, no-one...repeat no-one - knows anything definite, because, as yet, there is no reliable data. period.
17 Mar: StatNews: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
By John P.A. Ioannidis
(John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center)
The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable…
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
18 Mar: StatNews: We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start
By Marc Lipsitch
(Marc Lipsitch, D.Phil., is professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of Harvard’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics)
In a recent and controversial First Opinion, epidemiologist and statistician John Ioannidis argues that we lack good data on many aspects of the Covid-19 epidemic, and seems to suggest that we should not take drastic actions to curtail the spread of the virus until the data are more certain.
He is absolutely right on the first point…
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/18/we-know-enough-now-to-act-decisively-against-covid-19/
we lack more than just “good data”. we lack any reliable data, so Lipsitch - who scaremongered the 70% of the world population would get infected - was/is juat guessing.
If you are female and I assume you are by your nick
I salute you for your logic and calm
Well done
Or it might have been just the flu. The problem is the symptoms are very similar and nearly 30 million on average, 1 in 10 Americans have the flu. You can only know if it’s CoVid-19 by actual testing.
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