"I can tell you this about Covid-19 from my own experience. I got sick with "the flu" in mid-July. It went like this, I got it from my niece, and she got it from a friend. That sequence of transfer was very clear.
The friend got a Covid-19 test and eventually got a result, many weeks after he was tested and it was positive! I know the testing is unreliable so I'm only telling you what I had in getting tested and there was an official diagnosis of Covid-19 for it.
Here's what I can tell you about the illness I had. It came in two parts; two phases. The first week was like a bad flu. Lots of coughing and feeling tired. At the time a person would normally be throwing it off, one week after first symptoms, I got worse, and the fatigue and muscle aches came.
The second week was worse than the first, and all the coughing persisted. For about three days I was sleeping about 18 hours a day. After being quite ill I woke up after two weeks and knew I had turned a corner and was throwing it off.
But it was a very slow recovery and took me about a month to get back to normal. I give you all these specifics to say I did have Covid-19 and it was the oddest "flu" I've ever had. I did not leave my house for over three weeks except to walk a short distance to my condo mailbox, twice, I think, to check for mail. It was as if the bug was programmed to do a major hit, then follow it with a harder hit. I am very grateful to be well and recovered. Those vile, godless, Commie Chinese! And we've been giving the keys to the kingdom." (Name withheld by request.)
Edited by Adrian Vance
It took me 9 months to get back to normal. Nine months from onset.
ReplyDeleteDid you stick with your clown suit the whole time?
DeleteIt took me 9 months to get back to normal. Nine months from onset.
ReplyDeleteIt took me 9 months to get back to normal. Nine months from onset.
ReplyDeleteI do wish you would not post the same thing three times.
DeleteArticle abstract in JAMA:
ReplyDelete“With more than 30 million documented infections and 1 million deaths worldwide, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues unabated. The clinical spectrum of severe acute respiratory syndrome ranges from asymptomatic infection to life-threatening and fatal disease. Current estimates are that approximately 20 million people globally have “recovered”; however, clinicians are observing and reading reports of patients with persistent severe symptoms and even substantial end-organ dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Because COVID-19 is a new disease, much about the clinical course remains uncertain—in particular, the possible long-term health consequences, if any.”
JAMA November 3, 2020 Volume 324, Number 17
This well documents what I have been saying a long time about doctors being called "men of science." They are not. They are men of practice. They do what is accepted by the canons of their profession, i.e. that which is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Readers Digest. They do nothing more and often less, much less.
DeleteMy experience was about the same except the second week was not any worse other than having a cough. It started the day before Thanksgiving, back to 100% now. Not the worst flu I have had in my life but definitely the longest.
ReplyDeleteAge and state of your health are important in your reaction. Where I had juvenile asthma, but outgrew it by age 20, I could have a more difficult time than anyone who did have it. Diabetics generally have a bad time of it and on through the list of "morbiditys."
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