re: Wsj breaking: 2% of Americans had covid in their blood before Christmas 2019

I’ve had since December

Probably a bunch of people have said this in here, but I was really f'ed up in January with a cough/fever thing for a week or two that did not manifest in flu When it got a label a few months later, I wondered about the timing.

That'd be a 1.4% infection rate in those that had enough antibodies to be detected this late. That'd mean defined symptoms so the actual infection rate was likely higher.

The virus was here before December. Last thanksgiving my dad came down with a major bout of what we thought was flu. Never seen him that sick in my life. Two negative flu tests later all they could come up with was he had a severe upper respiratory infection. An upper respiratory infection that gave him a 104 fever and bed bound for 4 weeks with albuterol treatments. The virus was here well before the “outbreak” started.