I am also wondering about the Flu being mixed up with cases of COVID. We know that they cycled PCR tests so long that any minute amount of COVID genetic material could be detected, did not mean that is what the person was sick with. They did not test for influenza or other illnesses but with that minute bit of COVID genetic material detected just called it COVID. Does not mean that the illness and symptoms were from COVID.
A data point is that in October of 2019 my college student offspring became very sick, and it was long lasting, a few weeks later when my offspring came to visit me, I caught it, this is November 2019. For what we knew of typical virus this should have been past the window of being contagious when off spring gave it to me. Offspring was a student at UC Davis in CA, so between SF and Sacramento, students started back in general end of September and came to campus from all over the world and states.
I had thought for a while that it was "early COVID" that we had. But, offspring has told me that in early COVID, when the Red Cross was desperate for blood donations, and the public was leery of contaminated blood supplies. that offspring donated blood to the Red Cross and the Red Cross did a blood test on it and reported back to offspring that there were no antibodies to COVID in offsprings blood. So, it was not COVID. Offspring has finally convinced me of that.
Whatever it was, it was very nasty. That November 2019 illness is the sickest I can remember being. I finally had an "official" case of COVID a few months ago, January 2023 which was so much milder than whatever I had in Nov. 2019. The case my offspring had was even worse. Not only was offspring very ill Oct 2019, but has had symptoms and health reprocusions for years after, still lingering health issues. By spring 2020 offspring had to go to the ER twice with bad respiratory issues, couldn't breathe, had to be taken out of class to the ER, was diagnoses with asthma, although before that time had never in life had an asthma symptom ( there is asthma in the immediate family though, just had never expressed in that offspring). The COVID PCR tests were negative. The doctors had offspring use multiple daily steroidal inhaler of whatever usual type they do for a couple years, offspring is finally off that, still gets sick easier and tires much easier than mid 20's otherwise healthy, athletic, fit young people are expected to do.
So, I wonder that there may have been more than one illness going around. And we have it all mixed together so don't know.
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flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 06:43 pm (UTC)A data point is that in October of 2019 my college student offspring became very sick, and it was long lasting, a few weeks later when my offspring came to visit me, I caught it, this is November 2019. For what we knew of typical virus this should have been past the window of being contagious when off spring gave it to me. Offspring was a student at UC Davis in CA, so between SF and Sacramento, students started back in general end of September and came to campus from all over the world and states.
I had thought for a while that it was "early COVID" that we had. But, offspring has told me that in early COVID, when the Red Cross was desperate for blood donations, and the public was leery of contaminated blood supplies. that offspring donated blood to the Red Cross and the Red Cross did a blood test on it and reported back to offspring that there were no antibodies to COVID in offsprings blood. So, it was not COVID. Offspring has finally convinced me of that.
Whatever it was, it was very nasty. That November 2019 illness is the sickest I can remember being. I finally had an "official" case of COVID a few months ago, January 2023 which was so much milder than whatever I had in Nov. 2019. The case my offspring had was even worse. Not only was offspring very ill Oct 2019, but has had symptoms and health reprocusions for years after, still lingering health issues. By spring 2020 offspring had to go to the ER twice with bad respiratory issues, couldn't breathe, had to be taken out of class to the ER, was diagnoses with asthma, although before that time had never in life had an asthma symptom ( there is asthma in the immediate family though, just had never expressed in that offspring). The COVID PCR tests were negative. The doctors had offspring use multiple daily steroidal inhaler of whatever usual type they do for a couple years, offspring is finally off that, still gets sick easier and tires much easier than mid 20's otherwise healthy, athletic, fit young people are expected to do.
So, I wonder that there may have been more than one illness going around. And we have it all mixed together so don't know.
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