I was really really sick with “bronchitis” a year ago in March when COVID was first starting. At the time you didn’t get tested if you didn’t have a fever. Since most COVID infections seem to cause a really low fever and I didn’t have a thermometer, I could have had it.
My doctor treated it with two prescription cough meds, an inhaler, a z-pack, famotidine, and prednisone. She didn’t want me to come in if I could help it and she didn’t want me to go to a walk-in clinic. The meds helped but I was sick for about a month.
So, I could have had it...or not. No way to tell now.
I'm glad you got over your bronchitis.
My neighbor downstairs was diagnosed with COPD. I'm almost 74. She's older than me, and has always been active. I've never smoked...neither has she. It took them a long time to diagnose her problem, and finally get her to the point where she wasn't having to go to the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. She still goes out for walks, weather permitting. She doesn't let her illness keep her down.
The son of a friend of mine worked with a guy who was experiencing Covid symptoms. Both men were tested three times, over a period of time, before both finally tested positive. By the time my friend's son got his positive test result back, it had been so long that the doctor told him he wasn't infectious any more. He's married with two young sons. The whole family (my friends, their three sons, and all their kids) went on vacation together, stayed in a house in Delaware this past summer, and nobody got Covid.