re: For those that think they've had corona

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If COVID was around that early we’d be seeing the same hospital and death statistics spiking as well. I don’t get the logic.

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Interestingly enough, there was a new-ish phenomenon going around the last half of last year that was attributed to vaping. Gives the same type of lung findings as COVID-19. COVID-19 was not a known entity at the time and there was no testing for it, and our traditional laboratory tests for COVID-19 are not consistent with infection. So who knows.

To the OP's question, I had the worst "man cold" that I have ever had back in January and was in bed an entire day. I may or may not have had a mild case. I'm an emergency physician for reference.

I have a cousin who has COVID-19. He is 2.5 weeks into it and is still highly symptomatic. Can't do a thing without feeling like he is going to collapse. His oxygen saturation has improved, however so he's likely going to recover. We (as a medical community) don't know if there is a weaker strain of the virus and a stronger strain or if it's a based upon viral load exposure. Or both.