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In reply to the discussion: It's entirely possible that COVID-19 has been circulating [View all]Demsrule86
(68,965 posts)80. Nothing has been disproved. There are not even antibody tests yet.
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there was a vid posted recently from a scientist discussing distancing...
getagrip_already
Mar 2020
#3
Will you please make this it's own op? I would like to bookmark it. Thanks.
SaveOurDemocracy
Mar 2020
#94
The fact thay they're already finding alternatve DNA strands is kind of suspicious...
Wounded Bear
Mar 2020
#5
I had the flu over christmas. Was odd in that my oxygen level was low in this bout.
Thomas Hurt
Mar 2020
#7
Yep, my wife and I think that she had it as well as our 9 year old daughter.
Ace Rothstein
Mar 2020
#9
Maybe a test would reveal a previous infection and buildup of corresponding antibodies?
DFW
Mar 2020
#10
I read that if you become reinfected, you are more likely to die...this virus causes lung damage
Demsrule86
Mar 2020
#26
Thanksgiving week I got something that gor into my lungs lieraly overnight after getting ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#16
Colds roll in, this came on like instantly - one minute feeling good, the next BANG sick, right?
marble falls
Mar 2020
#70
I had the same thing right after Thanksgiving and it lasted for about a month.
smirkymonkey
Apr 2020
#160
I was too...ended up in hospital...really ill and a forty something woman where my daughter worked
Demsrule86
Mar 2020
#23
I read your post re. lyme disease, I was just curious if somehow, lyme disease is related to ...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2020
#74
Thanks so much. I was shocked and surprised that I too, had lyme disease, didn't even know ...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2020
#108
If you really did get it and if you have recovered then thank God for your recovery.
totodeinhere
Mar 2020
#32
I had something similar back over xmas, although fever wise, it didn't fit the MO.
woodsprite
Mar 2020
#40
That's the same theory I've been trying to quash in a right wing republican FB "friend" of mine.
Ms. Toad
Mar 2020
#59
From what I've read in Wired, the first cases were noticed in China in November.
BusyBeingBest
Mar 2020
#75
I had the exact same thing, and it was also a very unusual "cold virus" for me to have
obamanut2012
Mar 2020
#60
I think the epidemiological models also point to China as the point of origin.
Act_of_Reparation
Mar 2020
#71
flu tests have a significant false negative rate, particularly on this past winter's strains
Amishman
Mar 2020
#158
January 6 my whole front desk. 5 people myself included. We had a team of three working at our
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#86
I bet if you were tested for antibodies you would NOT have covid-19 antibodies
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#88
There are MANY coronavirus diseases. SARS was one of them. It means nothing in this context. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#92
YEs, eventually. I just saw a report that they have isolated the antibodies
relayerbob
Mar 2020
#126
It is. I like how gov and mayor are handling the crisis. But, we are not showing any tested
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#114
Interesting, because I told Mr Nay that I wondered whether I had already had COVID
Nay
Mar 2020
#117
Is this a similar situation like the Spanish Flu that lasted from January 1818 to December 1919?
BlkOrchid58
Apr 2020
#162
I agree about the antibody testing. It would certainly explain a lot if we were able to get tested.
BlkOrchid58
Apr 2020
#164