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I had an awful cough for about 2 weeks before I had Covid symptoms (which had cleared up for a week before Covid reared its head). I never get coughs generally. I also wonder if this has contributed to me getting Covid, or at least having more pronounced symptoms. Lots of people in my building had this cough, and my downstairs neighbours seem to be convinced that the cough was Covid - despite the fact it would have been very ahead of the curve time wise. Who knows.
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@CheeseWheel
Same here. I basically had 3 'phases':
Phase 1: ill but not that bad for 3-4 days, then mostly better for 3-4 days
Phase 2: really fucking ill for 4 days, felt better for about a week
Phase 3: ill for a day with similar symptoms to phase 2, i.e. fever/chills/muscle ache/fatigue (possibly triggered by 3 hours sleep followed by 15 hr work day when I wasn't fully better)
This was back at the start of February and I dismissed the first phase as bad cold and the second as flu.
I do wonder whether there's a particularly bad strain of flu going round and people are thinking 'this is covid'.
There a lot of speculation. It'd be good to hear what testing of a random sample of the population comes back with.