Posted on 03/28/2020 4:22:06 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
There is an article in the Financial Times saying that a medical researcher/statistician at Oxford believes that half of the UK's population has already had the virus. Several people disagreed with his study, but it is intriguing.
I suspect that I and several members of my family may have had the Wuhan virus in February. We assumed we had the flu, but the symptoms were not like typical flu symptoms. The cough was the worst.
If you think you may have had the virus, but didn't realize it at the time, please comment about your experience. Some think this virus was circulating in the US as early as last October.
If a whole bunch of people already had this virus and recovered, perhaps we can get back to normal much sooner than we thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
It’s hard to say since in the beginning few were officially diagnosed. The question is are more people actually being infected or are just the number of tested people going up?
My son believes he had it in January. He is 27, in great shape. Got an awful sore throat. Drove himself to Urgent Care and passed out.
They hydrated him. All tests came back negative ~ flu A, flu B, strep, Mono... The doctor was miffed...
My son said it was just an excruciating sore throat, all-over weakness. They gave him a Z-pack. He stayed at our house, so we were all exposed. No one else got sick
So more people catching it in NY when Dems there bungled things means that most there haven’t caught it?
The only way to reach Absolute Certitude of that is after the fact.
There is a difference between exposed and active, and ever exposed. Not saying you are wrong, but I don't recall any report that discussed testing for antibodies, which would catch people who were infected and got over it or never showed symptoms.
There have been a few articles published with quotes from frontline doctors that people with Type O blood appear to have a resistance to the Wuhan Flu.
The doctors said they haven’t any idea what it may be that give Type O blood types a resistance to this virus but, that the evidence they are noting is those people tested who tested positive with this virus that experienced very mild to moderate symptoms at the worst have been patients with Type O blood.
They are hopeful this may give researchers further clues as to how to deal with this virus in the future.
That doesn’t change anything he said....
Had a light cold in early February...became a cough hung on ended at the end of February. I was a cold, maybe one evening slight fever early on I did not even bother to check. I did isolate myself pretty much by then until now because we saw this coming.
I think it was just a cold. Still isolating.
What if no one knows how many have had the virus?
Hey, that’s it.
we’ll soon know one way or the other as the various instant, finger-stick IGM-IGG tests that have been developed get validated and then widely distributed ...
No, because I have never had a flu vaccine shot in my life. I can’t remember if I ever caught a flu. My wife gets them every year religiously. I guess I am just more of a risk taker. Besides that I’m not sue that the vaccine won’t just kill me. 8>)
I was as sick as I have ever been first week in February. Whatever it was would have been fatal to someone older or compromised. Missed some work. Treated myself at home.
After reading more about corona, I am sure that is what knocked me down.
I would love to donate blood or platelets but cannot because I am a melanoma survivor.
just saw this
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3101098
Marcus AureliusIn reply to Marcus Aurelius • 9:48p, 3/18/20AG
Man hate to sabotage to “Aggie Revellie” thread re this. But - I believe the hydrochloroquine data. I recommend it. For anyone requiring supplemental O2. FYI for the million time I am a compassionate board certified pulm/CC doc.
My daughter thinks she and her husband had it in January as well. They had the described symptoms and were sick for over 2 weeks.
How about a pneumonia shot - would it have any protection against this? I ask because I had one in November then got strangely sick in early December after visiting the LifeCare center in Kirkland, WA on 11/20.
My sisters two neighbors are convinced they had it(In January, horrible pneumonia, flu test came back negative)..so did my cousin(Very healthy guy, runs marathons, was very ill thought he would die, this was in February, flu test came back negative) did they all have it, who knows..coronavirus didnt come here via carrier pigeon in the last two weeks not possible its been here for a while
If most people already had Covid-19 then the curve would be flattening.
But for now, that’s not the case.
What percentage of US population might be Type O ???
I know I’m “Type O”
O+ might the “+” be a factor one way or another ?
Nope.
Those are for bacterial pneumonia.
This is viral pneumonia.
Sorry.
I genuinely await with some degree of hope the outcome of the antibody testing.
The next question...if you had an early version of this, are you immune to it now still?
I agree and feel it is strongly possible and in fact that would be a positive rather than a negative.
No it hasn’t.
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