My kids had corona symptoms early January 2020...

[RiverDee]

Before coronavirus was even being talked about on the news, just after Christmas and into early new year my two kids had a fever requiring bedrest, followed by a dry cough. This lasted about 2 weeks overall. They had to have a couple of days off school at the height of the fever.

Nobody else in the house caught it, unusual in itself as the adults here usually catch whatever bug the kids have. This time us parents didn’t, and I remember thinking at the time it was odd to have a cough after a fever. Usually kids just have a high temp and maybe sore throat, or high temp and vomiting. But I don’t recall fever with cry cough after.

It’s occurring to me now, could the kids have had corona back then?

DS had something similar in January. GP said it was tonsillitis, I wasn't entirely convinced but gave him the antibiotics anyway.
He was so weak he couldn't stand, I had to carry him to the toilet.

I’ve been wondering this. Had a fever out of nowhere early February, followed by the worst cough I’ve ever had which has only just gone. I was exhausted, could hardly move, and said to numerous people it was the weirdest virus I’d ever had. In fact my only remaining symptom is occasional shortness of breath. I had time off work which I’ve not had for years and had several friends (in other cities) with exactly the same symptoms, all unusual for them.

Logically I think surely we would have seen a rise of hospital admissions so maybe it was just a particularly nasty virus but it made me think at the time and even more so in retrospect.

I was discussing this with my father this evening. He spent quite a bit of time with large numbers of people from Wuhan in late October/November, and then we were all ill, one by one. Of course we will never know but we concluded it was highly unlikely.

I also had a cough and temp for a week in February but also feel this was most probably a seasonal flu rather than early CV. The usual flus were still active as they would be any year.

Logically I think surely we would have seen a rise of hospital admissions

Well, if there weren't very many people with it, and a very small percentage of sufferers need hospitalisation, then logically maybe the hospital admissions did go up, but by such a small number that it was almost imperceptible.

maybe the hospital admissions did go up, but by such a small number that it was almost imperceptible.

This is what I have thought too, and those that were admitted and did die were very ill anyway, and in vulnerable groups, and its not something doctors knew to be testing for.