Back in January I was sick pretty bad. In retrospect, and after talking with several people I know in the medical field, we all think I likely had Covid-19. No way of knowing for sure of course. I had all the key symptoms-fever, dry cough, tight chest/difficulty breathing. I feared It was turning into pneumonia, so after about a week I used tele-medicine. The physician said they had a lot of patients presenting with bronchitis like symptoms that rapidly developed into pneumonia. The treatment: a 5 day course of azithromycin and an albuterol inhaler to be used until symptoms subsided. It took me a month to fully recover. My lung capacity was trashed and the coughing persisted until the end of February.
CDC is reportedly trying to develop an ANTIBODY test for COVID-19. I believe they want to use it to get a better count of how many people ultimately contracted it, and got over it.
But unless you are in Washington or perhaps a handful of places in California, it was probably something else. A group in WA has been decoding the genome from the outbreak there, and believe it was circulating undetected in WA since about the middle of January.
I don't think they have found evidence of early community spread anywhere else.
I am in Texas. I'm a teacher in a school that has a disproportionately high concentration of Korean, Chinese, and Indian students. Several Chinese and Korean students of mine were very sick in January, missing up to two weeks of school. They also traveled to their home countries during Christmas break.
In Texas as well, had the same thing you had about 4-5 weeks after you. Thought and still do that it was Corona. Not something I had felt before. My theory was I had it and many other people did as well.
Back in January I was sick pretty bad. In retrospect, and after talking with several people I know in the medical field, we all think I likely had Covid-19. No way of knowing for sure of course. I had all the key symptoms-fever, dry cough, tight chest/difficulty breathing. I feared It was turning into pneumonia, so after about a week I used tele-medicine. The physician said they had a lot of patients presenting with bronchitis like symptoms that rapidly developed into pneumonia. The treatment: a 5 day course of azithromycin and an albuterol inhaler to be used until symptoms subsided. It took me a month to fully recover. My lung capacity was trashed and the coughing persisted until the end of February.
Yeah my lungs are good now. As soon as I felt well I got out and exercised a bit. Nothing like fresh air and cardio to get them back in shape.
Understand the permanent damage this can do to lungs. That's not simply from being infected, but in a bad enough case it's definitely true.
CDC is reportedly trying to develop an ANTIBODY test for COVID-19. I believe they want to use it to get a better count of how many people ultimately contracted it, and got over it.
But unless you are in Washington or perhaps a handful of places in California, it was probably something else. A group in WA has been decoding the genome from the outbreak there, and believe it was circulating undetected in WA since about the middle of January.
I don't think they have found evidence of early community spread anywhere else.
I am in Texas. I'm a teacher in a school that has a disproportionately high concentration of Korean, Chinese, and Indian students. Several Chinese and Korean students of mine were very sick in January, missing up to two weeks of school. They also traveled to their home countries during Christmas break.
In Texas as well, had the same thing you had about 4-5 weeks after you. Thought and still do that it was Corona. Not something I had felt before. My theory was I had it and many other people did as well.