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Anyone had a bad fever/cough in late December/early January...

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DannyDonut · 26/04/2020 17:36

And also been tested positive for COVID or strongly suspect they’ve had it in March/April?

There’s still talk of Covid 19 having been here since the end of last year, I am highly skeptical because otherwise surely we’d’ve seen a huge increase in death rates. But I’m still hearing so many people say they’re convinced they had it around/before Christmas (including a couple who were in China in November).

I had a nasty bug early January where I was bed ridden for a few days with a fever and a nasty cough so there was definitely something going round.

But my question is has anyone had both the Christmas bug AND Covid?

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PicsInRed · 26/04/2020 23:35

good indicator of those devoid of critics thinking skills.

We've been accused of that at many stages of the pandemic, and sadly have been proved correct as events have progressed.

Derbygerbil · 26/04/2020 23:36

@PicsInRed

A UK study showing similar if not worse figures, especially for some years.

vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/inactivated-flu-vaccine

Clearly the Government don’t broadcast this as it would put people off having it, and thousands more would die as a result!

MigginsMs · 26/04/2020 23:41

We all had a virus, which if we had those symptoms now, you’d be convinced it was covid

Same here but in mid Feb. If I got the symptoms now we would have to self isolate. I said to my husband at the time that I couldn’t fathom what it was, it wasn’t quite like either a flu, a cold or the norovirus but was like all of these in some way. I was under the weather for a week and then felt like shit and off work for a further week.

Derbygerbil · 26/04/2020 23:41

@PicsInRed

Who is “we” here, because if the “we” are those who are certain they had Covid in December and January, and that it was endemic at that time, you haven’t been proven right!

Or maybe I’ve blown your cover and the “we” are the “we, the Covid deniers” who are determined to show it’s a hoax at worst or to play it down as “no worse than the flu” at best.

Slattery · 26/04/2020 23:42

Peculiar, @Moondust001 as previously you have said your daughter is a doctor and also that no antibody tests exist.

So, which is it?

MigginsMs · 26/04/2020 23:45

I don’t think my bug was the flu as it wasn’t actually as bad as the flu in many ways

Derbygerbil · 26/04/2020 23:49

We all had a virus, which if we had those symptoms now, you’d be convinced it was covid

Firstly, you had it in the middle of the flu season. It’s no longer the flu season. Secondly, we now have 100,000+ confirmed Covid cases in the UK. The first confirmed case was 31 January. Thirdly, many qualified doctors mistook Covid for the flu in January/February. Yet you are oddly certain despite no medical training...

So, yes, if I had Covid symptoms now, I most likely do have it. If I’d had symptoms in January, it’s very likely to be flu (but may just about possibly have been Covid).

Derbygerbil · 26/04/2020 23:52

I don’t think my bug was the flu as it wasn’t actually as bad as the flu in many ways

So it quite possibly was a Coronavirus !... but one of the various ones that have circulated for generations in humans as a common cold.... Not Covid-19!

MigginsMs · 27/04/2020 00:08

Yeah I doubt it was cv19 given the timing, there were cases when I had it but it would be weird if I had got it so early! It wasn’t a cold either though, it was definitely a very unusual bug. It didn’t cross my mind at all at the time it was CV19 but it wasn’t like anything I’ve had in my newly half a century on the planet either.

MigginsMs · 27/04/2020 00:09

Nearly half a century 😬

Devlesko · 27/04/2020 00:16

I think it was something different, I'd like to think it was corona and we'd had it mild, but there's no way we could have caught it.
Me and dh had dry cough, something neither of us ever get. I bought Benylin, we had fever, but not for long, dizziness, lethargy and aches and pains. Not the headiness of normal flu or cold, it wasn't anything much but lasted about 3 weeks.
It would have had to have been quite prevalent for all of us to have contracted it, and wouldn't it have grown quicker?

binkyboinky · 27/04/2020 00:18

My DP had a fever on NYE and then a cough that lasted all Jan and half of Feb. But he never went to the doc. It went away all by itself. I never got it from him - unless I had the no-symptoms kind. But I had a bout of quite bad asthma before then, in December, could I have passed it to him? I hope we've both had it already! I just want everything to go back to normal!

LadyLindaT · 30/04/2020 17:54

My GP has just given me a diagnosis of "Post Covid-19 Syndrome".
I said, but I have been ill since November, so can this be?
He said: "Ah, but we know a lot more, know."
Make of that what you will....

Thighmageddon · 01/05/2020 09:34

For those of you saying there's no antibody test. There is now, Abbott Labs have had theirs given the ce mark yesterday and it's efficacy rate is over 99%.

owlstwooting · 01/05/2020 12:33

LadyLindaT That's interesting what your GP said.

I think the vast majority of those with symptoms before early March - it wasn't Covid though. Maybe some were. This virus spreads so readily though and causes such distinctive changes on x-ray that a major pattern would have been noticed.

I had a very strange virus in late Jan / early Feb. Worse than any cold I've ever had. Never had flu before, but never had anything like it before. Fever, extreme muscle aches so bad all over my legs arms and back that I had to lean on things to walk halfway across a room, exhaustion, a horrendous loud cough which made people actually back away from me in public. Then turned into red and very sore (but dry, no pus) half closed eyes.
It was adenovirus.

Delatron · 01/05/2020 12:44

I think lots more people have had it than we realised and it started circulating earlier than the first ‘super spreader’ that we identified. It takes on average 5 days incubation and then 3 weeks to death if you take a turn for the worse. So by the time we are seeing hives spikes in the death rate it surely has been around for a while.

I can’t remember the numbers but lots of flights form Wuhan here every day. They think it actually started back there much earlier. Why would nobody between November and Feb from Wuhan have brought it here? That’s not a conspiracy it just makes sense there would have been a few cases earlier than we thought. Maybe they were asymptomatic.

Delatron · 01/05/2020 12:45

Huge spikes

tinkerbellla · 01/05/2020 13:15

I had a terrible dry cough for about five weeks starting at the end of January. I also felt tired and had such bad dizzy spells I was googling brain tumours along with pneumonia. I used to quarantine myself away from the rest of my team because I was so self conscious of my constant cough. No other cold symptoms though...

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