Working in the medical field I can say that I had a few patients that were negative for influenza but had flu like symptoms with SOB, pneumonia confirmed on chest xray. Treated with several rounds of antibiotics but the pneumonia did not improve. However, the fever did improve so it was deemed successful treatment even though the lungs took several weeks to return to normal function...
My cousin's wife is a know-it-all nurse, and when I explained to her my wife and I very likely had it mid-January (cough, headache, URI, pre-pneumonia) she said it could not have been because clinicians weren't seeing the type of pneumonia it causes that early. Really?
Working in the medical field I can say that I had a few patients that were negative for influenza but had flu like symptoms with SOB, pneumonia confirmed on chest xray. Treated with several rounds of antibiotics but the pneumonia did not improve. However, the fever did improve so it was deemed successful treatment even though the lungs took several weeks to return to normal function...
Fuck. If only anyone cared enough to listen to all these stories.
I swear this whole fucking thing is happening because of people bored with their 9 to 5 jobs who want to play Rick Grimes buying toilet paper.
My cousin's wife is a know-it-all nurse, and when I explained to her my wife and I very likely had it mid-January (cough, headache, URI, pre-pneumonia) she said it could not have been because clinicians weren't seeing the type of pneumonia it causes that early. Really?
They were not looking for it.
Was treating cases with similar symptoms in January.