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I think I may have had c19 from early Jan, which is pretty early.
Struck down with what seemed like flu, temperature, fatigue, horrible cough. Went to GP, got antibiotics for suspected chest infection. Went skiing in the Alps, horrible stomach, death rattle coughs and also lost sense of taste and smell during ski week.
Family members that I was with were fine, my dad who wasn’t there also had a horrible cold/flu, and half my office was off that month due to cold/flu.
My club colleague who has asthma, picked up the bug shortly after I got back (presumably from me) and had to go to hospital with suspected pneumonia in early Feb, and got antibiotics. Took him about 6 weeks to recover. Took me about 6 weeks to recover with a lingering cough. I remember trying to hold in my coughing so that people wouldn’t be worried that I had C19.
Due to running a sports club at a university with lots of international students, including Chinese students back from Christmas holidays, it’s very possible that if they had it, I would have caught it.
If I haven’t had it already, I really don’t want to go through the above again...
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I know anecdote is not the singular of data, but as far as I can tell I spent 4 hours in a car on March 14th sitting next to a guy who went symptomatic the next day, on the way back from a ski holiday where I was eating, drinking, car-sharing, bubble-lift sharing and lift queuing with 100 people at least 4 of whom reported symptoms over the next two weeks, and one of whom had a horrible cough that he'd picked up in an Austrian ski resort but insisted he didn;t have CV and coughed all over us for a week.
So I spent the next 3 weeks convinced I was about to get C19. But it never showed up. So from my sample of 100, either it's much less infectious than we've been lead to believe or a lot of us were asymptomatic.