Is it at all possible that I had coronavirus back in February??

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Symptoms were (in order)
Dizziness
Fever
Body aches
Fatigue
Awful cough
Breathlessness including waking in the night gasping for air
Weird feeling as though the air I was breathing in was burning my throat and lungs
Sinus problems
Total lack of smell, I mean completely gone, couldn't smell Vicks Vaporub
Lasted for about 10 days

Didnt even consider CV as only people with connections to.China and Italy were being tested.

It's really playing on my mind.

If it's not possible then there must be an identical virus around?

Yeah I had the fever as well, had to change pyjamas in the night. Don’t recall being out of breath really but my husband said I was making a noise like a kazoo when I was asleep

If neither the place your DD returned from in South Wales nor the place you live in now are hotspots nor did they have early cases, it would be unlikely but not impossible.

South wales has a lot of cases and has from early on.

They think the first case here was actually mid Jan? So not the super spreader but another man who returned from an Austrian
Ski hot spot.

It could have been spreading unchecked since then. But the government line right through to the end of Feb were claiming that you had to have been in contact with someone from a high risk area.
So mainly China and later Italy.

Then it comes out that a ski resort in Austria was a huge hotspot.

Why didn’t the government just order loads of tests and start testing people then and isolating them and doing contact tracing?
They just ignored the possibility of any community spread.

You may well have had it and hopefully we’ll get the antibody test soon.

I don't understand why we are now being told that being less than 2m from another human being will spread the virus and yet in Feb they would only consider you at risk if you had come back from Italy or China

Yep and even then you were to only self isolate if you had symptoms. Ignoring the fact the people are infectious before symptoms appear...

Yep and even then you were to only self isolate if you had symptoms. Ignoring the fact the people are infectious before symptoms appear...

And even then when it was people who returned from those areas who had to isolate it was only the person, not the rest of the household.

Government have really made a total arse of this. I wonder how many people went to Italy for 6 nations/half term and brought it back?

I had a mild fever and exhaustion over a weekend in early Feb. I had a dry cough that lasted for pretty much all of Feb and some of March but only mild (I never get coughs normally). Couldn't catch breath when running so haven't been out jogging much (at the time I put it down to being a lard arse).

I had been spending a lot of time with Italian colleagues moving back and forth between the UK and Italy.

I really really want an antibody test.

Luckily I isolated at home for several days because it happened to be easy to wfh with my work diary at that time.

DH is prone to a chest bug but he got nothing except a surprising tiredness for a few days after I was down. DC fit as fiddles throughout.