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I had similar in January. The dry cough was persistent for me, irritatingly worse in the evening and moreso annoying for my partner who was being kept awake by it until I eventually slept.
I had one day in bed then straight back at work and for weeks I would get leg muscle ache like instant DOMS, pretty much everything was a big effort especially my commute ride. Then there was the shortness of breath/wheezing, and dizziness/brain fog/numbness, of which I'm still getting mild occasional bouts of dizzy & wheezy.
Stairs were a problem to climb some days, even into March, although all of this was intermittent -some days I felt fine.
It is hard to think it could've been Covid as it was too early really, and I reckon most likely it was another nasty but not life threatening seasonal virus doing the rounds. If Covid then given the level of spread needed to have reached me the death curve here would've been lockdown worthy back in January surely?
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It is hard to think it could've been Covid as it was too early really, and I reckon most likely it was another nasty but not life threatening seasonal virus doing the rounds. If Covid then given the level of spread needed to have reached me the death curve here would've been lockdown worthy back in January surely?
My suspicion has just been for a while that the timeline is going to be pushed back further as people investigate past cases properly.
I don't know about how a 'death curve' for something like this develops. It has been suspected that the virus may have different strains. What I do know is that nobody had this on their radar in medical examination before the end of last year. Symptoms can be mistaken for something else, and it probably triggers various other illnesses, certainly their symptoms. Many death certificates are probably educated guesses. Perhaps the virus is less virulent than has been thought recently and really has taken this long to spread. Or perhaps SARS-Cov-2 is in itself quite mild but becomes dangerous when combined with something else that's already present in those who get seriously ill and/or die? Maybe it only acquired its seriousness over winter? Initial cases would have been relatively few and wouldn't have increased overall deaths that much at a time when seasonal deaths usually go up, anyway. There seems to be a crazy variety of symptoms and it seems hard to see the unifying factor behind them. Many victims would have been elderly or vulnerable even last year. Who knows? All that can now be tested are samples taken from patients that have for some reason been preserved, e.g. the ones in France. So many possibilities, all speculation until some evidence is found.
Oliver Schick
This is also an interesting tale of virus experience:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner
I've been wondering since the outbreak was official what the strange infection may have been that I had in October/November. This seems much too early for COVID-19 (in Britain), and I have so far assumed that as I didn't have any breathing difficulties that it couldn't have been COVID. The main symptoms were a dreadful cough, a feeling of being ill that I haven't had before (hard to describe), headaches, and that it seemed to get better and worse, over about 3 1/2 weeks in total. It wasn't too debilitating, just very unpleasant. Reading the above makes me think that either the people describing it had something else like me or I may have had it. But so early? I can well imagine that I may have come into contact with an international traveller who already had it, but I don't know. That's one reason why I've been interested in finding out whether the virus may have been here much earlier than believed so far. Having said that, the way Paul Garner experienced it was clearly far worse than what I had, and it may well have been just another conventional infection with similar symptoms. I suppose I won't know until/if I get 'it' for real.