re: For those that think they've had corona

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COVID was around that early we’d be seeing the same hospital and death statistics spiking as well.

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I don’t know. Maybe less people would get tested if they thought it was just some regular shite. Nobody would freak the frick out without all of the hysteria. And maybe, just maybe, people were dying because they also had underlying health issues that maybe masked the fact that they were also sick with a previously unknown virus.

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You had the flu

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My wife and kid had the exact same thing end of Feb. Both tested negative for the flu. Kid was diagnosed with pneumonia. Pulse Ox #'s in the low 90's. I slept in his room 2 nights because he was gasping for breath and it was so bad I thought he was going to stop breathing. The Doc's said they didn't know what it was, but it was not the flu.

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I don’t know. Maybe less people would get tested if they thought it was just some regular shite. Nobody would freak the frick out without all of the hysteria. And maybe, just maybe, people were dying because they also had underlying health issues that maybe masked the fact that they were also sick with a previously unknown virus.

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Well this is just airtight logic.

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Months later it’s easy to kind of shoehorn what you remember your symptoms to be into the growing list of possible symptoms

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Exactly. I almost never get sick, but I had a horrible cough for a few days in early January with a slight fever for a day or so. It was a painful upper respiratory cough, but I can't reasonably assume I came in contact with anyone, I never had a 102+ fever, my wife never got sick from me, etc etc so since it cleared up without going to the doctor, I assume it was bronchitis or something.

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There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that many people had this as far back as November, maybe even October of last year...

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Myself, my wife along with my mom and mother in law when they came to visit right after Christmas all think we had it. Took a couple weeks to get over.

This has been infecting the world since November just no one knew what it was bc China was keeping it a secret.

It explains the insane amount of people with respiratory issues from December and January.

My wife ( no pics), tested positive this week. Exact same symptoms as OP. I and my daughter have experienced a dull, nagging headache for about 5 days but no other symptoms at this point. Hopefully, this will be the extent of it. Ages, 49, 43 & 16.

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I had every single symptom. Fever was 104.5 when I went to Oschner. However, I tested positive for both flu (type A) and pneumonia. They told me it was possible I could have Corona also (although highly unlikely) but there was no point in testing me because I hadn't been out of the country.

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Same. 104.5 fever January 28. Swabbed negative for flu. A cough like I’ve never experienced. Closest I’ve ever felt like I could actually die. Went to hospital next day because my breathing was so labored and my skin felt numb.
Pulse ox was 92%, x ray positive for pneumonia and blood test positive for flu A, though I already had flu A at Christmas. It’s weird. Not saying I had it but I’ve had pneumonia before and this was different. The cough caused me to crack a rib a week later, it was so violent and unproductive. If it was rona then good, I’m glad to have had it and been done with it. I look forward to the antibody test.

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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.