SvennoJ said:
LurkerJ said:
Fallen out of date with the news.
How is everyone here doing? Any tested positive?
I am lucky enough to be a keyworker so I am not feeling the lockdown, and I have always practiced social distancing in my free time so my life has been largely unchanged, really. |
Well, we're currently wondering if Covid19 has already passed us...
Military athletes (military olympics) attended Wuhan at the end of October (until October 27th)
The first detected case in China was less than 20 days after the games.
The athlete village was less than 20km from the wet market in Wuhan.
Many returning athletes complained of a strange illness (yet being young, fit and healthy, they didn't have severe symptoms)
Also in France returning athletes noticed the strange disease and the first case of community spread was traced back to late December.
Canada had 117 competing athletes in Wuhan.
My wife developed severe pneumonia at the end of Januari, including strange blood clots seen on scans, blue hands and sometimes up her arms due to lack of oxygen, lung function down to 20%, loss of smell and taste, anti biotics had no effect.
She was sick for a long time, sometimes wondering if she would make it through the night, struggling to get enough oxygen.
(I got a bad soar throat for over a month but can't remember if I had any other symptoms)
We did not think it was possible she could have gotten it that early, and are extra careful since if a 'normal' pneumonia already got her close to the ICU, what can Covid19 do to her... But with all these new stories emerging from the military Olympic games, it's not impossible that the spread is both slower and started much earlier than so far assumed. Among young fit people it would spread slower and largely unnoticed until it reaches more vulnerable parts of the population.
Luckily we're both sort of hermits so small chance that we spread it on if we actually had it, yet how could my wife have gotten it. My detective work kinda ends with the 117 Canadians returning since there's no list who and where from.
Anyway it doesn't change much. If it wasn't covid19, stay safe. Getting tested now would only risk exposure imo. It it was covid19, no guarantees that she's still immune for any new strains. And 3 months after immunity starts to fade back down, which is about now.
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Seems like you've been through a lot as a family, sorry to hear. And yes, COVID19 is highly associated with clotting events, the two are tightly related that blood thinners are being given prophetically for in-patients.
Like you, I also had a sore throat before the madness started, and it didn't feel similar to previous episodes of sore throats.
