[CatOwner]

Our kid swears a friend who visited about 4-5 days before Christmas had it. All the classic symptoms, including difficulty in breathing. Young man in his late 20s. Working in the Phoenix area and interacting with co-workers traveling from Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley - probably ground zero in the US).

Our kid was pretty ill Christmas Eve (although not extreme), and stayed the night with us. My wife was more ill than our kid late in December, and was still ill on January 3. Had residual symptoms for at least a week after. I can't be certain, but they might have had COVID-19.

[EvilCapitalist]

For the past 10 years I never had to take a day off of work for illness. I was in such bad shape the doc told me to take a week off.