That's the first I've heard that particular detail.
I had mild symptoms. Tested positive, but it didn't really impact me. I had fatigue and lost taste and smell, but that was it.
My wife was hit harder. Knocked flat for two weeks, with fatigue and brain fog persisting for weeks afterward. Her taste and smell were never affected.
It’s a bizarre virus but I would expect a biological weapon that originated from a bat to have weird symptoms. I have read that it it coexists with bats somehow too, it doesn’t kill them and they don’t kill it despite the fact that they generate 106 degree temperatures during flight. probably explains why it isn’t stopped in its tracks during summer like the flu tends to be.
My parents both had it third week January 2020 before people really knew it was here. Dad was 94 then and got extremely ill and was hospitalized with pneumonia. They kept having to put him on oxygen at night which was baffling too back then. He was only there for 3 days however.
Mother insisted on staying with him constantly during his 3 days in hospital. She then became ill at home and some sort of cocktail got her over it. Again we had no idea they could have had Covid, it was too new and they’re in Lincoln, NE. Mom was 92 then.
Both of them lost their sense of taste for months. At least 3-4 and even after that things didn’t taste the same to them.
My father even though he was 94, he’s 95 now, was so stumped he didn’t bounce back as he had done years past. Well now we know why. My parents just don’t get ill. This I believe was brought in by relatives from Chicago visiting that Christmas 2019.
So their experience doesn’t fit the article.