And hospitals and doctors were dealing with an unknown condition as far back October 2019.
This may be the literal definition of a nothingburger.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2019, I had a weird spate of gastrointestinal symptoms - vomiting etc. In retrospect, I wondered if it had been Covid, but I was never tested for it. I also had cold symptoms during February of 2020, but they followed the normal pattern for me - sore throat followed by congestion and (briefly) a loss of taste, gradually tapering off over three weeks.
“hospitals and doctors were dealing with an unknown condition as far back October 2019.”
Also, some of us as patients got hammered with this whatever in November 2019 into January 2020.
I had my crud from the second week in November 2019 to about Christmas. By New Years, I was doing fine with the exception of shortness of breath which stayed around.
None of the women in our family, exposed to me didn’t even have the sniffles.
One of our 50 something sons apparently got whatever from me during a brief Thanksgiving visit by both of us. He lost 40+ pounds. His wife, his mother/my wife never even had the sniffles.
We have the same FP at the same clinic/hospital/. This son asked our doctor if he had what I had. The doctor was honest and said probably, and he didn’t know what it was.
A college age grandson had about 6 hours feeling bad, the week after Christmas. His 2 year older sister had no symptoms and returned to her nursing school on the East coast after New Years. She is now a full time RN on ICU/Covid wards without a sniffle. She has had her her vaccinations to continue working in the unit after becoming a RN.