Posted on 03/28/2020 4:22:06 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
“.....we can assume we’ve reached saturation.”
As long as we have stacked living like New York and Los Angeles, where both of the hospital ships are going or already are, we will have a plethora of semi warm bodies to pass the virus and it will keep it in the news till after the election. The number of deaths won’t be any higher than they have been over the years, but that doesn’t matter. Trump is running and everything he’s done is not enough or early enough even though he outran all the ideas the libs/socialists have provided.
In keeping with the libs of the past, “It’s the virus stupid.”
rwood
I don't believe such a test exists for CV-19.
I hope they create one, because it would be helpful to know if someone has already had it or not.
I thought they now had one.
My husband had a severe pneunmonia diagnosed just before Christmas. Shortness of breath, fever, aches and fatigue. He was tested for the flu but that was negative. He had two rounds of antibiotics, an inhaler and steroids and missed a month of work.
He is in the casino business with lots of tourists during that time.
We have wondered if he had it.
Forgot to mention bad cough which lingered for weeks.
They have an RNA test to see if you currently have the disease, but no test that I’m aware of to tell you whether you already had it or not.
I think I had it in late January. My husband flew home from Colorado to Atlanta, and I got sick 2 days later. Woke up feeling like I was getting a cold, and was flat on my back by midday - 101.5 fever, chills, terrible headache and cough. For the first day (only), I had shortness of breath & worried it was turning into pneumonia. I also had a racing pulse that first day, ranging from 105 to 115. By the second day, I was breathing okay and my fever was under 100. By the third day, I was out of bed, but the weakness remained for another 7 days or so. I’ve had the flu a few times in my life, but this was different. I’ve never had something hit me so hard and fast before - and the shortness of breath was a first for me. I’m 54 and in good health.
My husband didn’t get sick like I did. Instead, he just had a dry cough that lasted for about 3 weeks. I had just gotten over a cold, so I’m thinking my defenses were down. (I’ve also got type A blood, and my husband is type B. I know there’s a suggestion that type A might be the most susceptible to the virus, so who knows?)
Well they have been using some kind of test in Iceland and England because they have information giving them a much clearer picture of things.
Here you go, they have a serology test but now this may be coming out:
https://news.yahoo.com/british-firm-says-antibody-test-123743491.html
“What I heard is that if someone actually had the virus they will carry the antibodies for 2-4 months afterward on average and tests will show that....”
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Current COVID-19 tests are, in essence, testing for “shed” virus and not for antibodies in the blood.
Personally I believe I have a Godzilla level immune system. I have never gotten a flu shot. I haven't had the flu in 20+ years. Maybe once a year or every other year if I let myself get too run-down I might get a mild fever for a day and sleep a lot. Typically after a 24 hr "recharge" I'm back at it. I don't get colds, I don't get sinus infections.
If this thing is as contagious as they think and testing kits were so scarce early-on it seems very plausible that it spread much further much faster than they thought. If the symptoms have been wildly over-hyped (gosh, who would do that?) then it is very believable that a lot of people have already had it.
Flu vaccine makes you more susceptible to non-flu viruses. And it is ineffective even against flu. So, no.
“80 percent of covid 19 “victims” are asymptomatic. They have very mild symptoms or even no symptoms at all. Yet they still may be able to transmit the virus to others. Especially high risk individuals.”
Asymptomatic is not the same as mild symptoms. 55% are asymptomatic, 25% mild symptoms. Otherwise, you are correct, sir.
From the hospital for a fall which she had her head, in mid-February.
Of course, by the time she left three days later, she had a cough, fever and chest. This continued for a week while she was in rehab, and got worse to the point where she was readmitted to the hospital. By that point, she had also contracted viral pneumonia. While this was going on, I got *something* which caused me to cough a bit and also to sneeze a little bit for about 5-6 days. I didn’t think much of it at the time, except that I was pretty sure that I gotten it from the hospital. I really don’t think that it was Coronavirus, but you never know. Maybe at some point in the future there will be an antibody test that everybody will have to take, to see if they had it or not, and then I will know for sure.
This year’s flu was nasty.
The symptoms that people have been reporting from the bug in November, December and January - I had in November, around Thanks Giving. What ever it was, it was NOT CCP-19.
Consider - Patient 0 was diagnosed on November 17. Prior to that he infected some people, they incubated 5 days (average), they infected some people, and so on. By the end of November there were probably only a few dozen or so infected, some still incubating. These people dispersed around the entire globe (well, some of them did, some stayed in Wuhan). They got to their destinations and infected a few people each. 5 days later, those people started infecting people, and so on.
The whole number of people infected would have been tiny compared to the population of the US. The odds of anybody having been infected by CCP-19 in early December, never mind November, are so miniscule that they do not jibe with all the #MeTooCovid19 reports you are hearing.
Trump’s travel restrictions caught almost all the infected coming from China. Almost. Missed the one that got to WA, maybe a couple of others. Then there was a wave from Europe that wasn’t stopped in time. And an ongoing wave from Mexico - recall how the government of CA wouldn’t tell us the travel history of their earliest cases? They were illegals.
What you had - that wasn’t CCP-19. Probably a strain of flu they missed in the vaccine. But if you think you had it - go get tested. They need serum donors.
Many similar here in south Texas(near Victoria) beginning late November/early December. Co_workers in a 120 person cubeland were back and forth travel to China all of 2019.
First time I was sick in 10 years. Doc gave me Z-Pak(half of the cure...it prevents secondary infections and has an anti-inflammatory effect on the lungs). Saw him Friday for bloodwork and told him he only gave me half of the “French Cure”. He and other docs there are well aware of HDC + Z-Pak. Told him I want the antibody test once he gets use of it.
Thanks.
Person I heard was mistaken. It was a summary of a doctor telling why the Wuhan virus is not the flu even if a person thinks they had one or the other recently without any test available.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Mid February I woke up with a burning in my chest. I spiked a fever of 101. I had trouble breathing so I went outside and took deep breaths until I stopped coughing. I also patted my chest and lungs to keep it loose. I had a fever for 8 days. (quit taking it after that)Diarrhea and fatigue.
I used musinex, pseudophed and nasal allergy spray.
My mom was recently moved to hospice and I cant visit. Once
I can prove I have the antibodies, I can see my mom.
“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.”
Do the authorities know this? I hope you were at least interviewed.
“What percentage of US population might be Type O ???”
About 1/3 O. Another 1/3 A. The rest others in various percentages.
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