My preacher’s wife had it in late 2019. No sense of taste or smell and total exhaustion. She’s young and thin, so she recovered easily, but we know what it was. We live in SW Missouri.
My preacher’s wife had it in late 2019. No sense of taste or smell and total exhaustion. She’s young and thin, so she recovered easily, but we know what it was.
My dad, who had Wenger's for years (an autoimmune disease that affects lungs and kidneys) became incredibly ill in November of 2019. The doctors were a bit stumped by his presentation....they treated him like he had pneumonia or a bronchial infection (which was something that always happened with him usually around feb each year). I literally thought he was done that November. However, he rallied. But looking back at some of his symptoms....I must confess that I suspect he had COVID. While he rallied in December through to February of 2020, he took a turn for the worst and died in May of 2020. At the time, he again presented with lung issues. My feeling is that he was one of the vulnerable who are more susceptible to the flu or a respiratory illness like COVID. Of course, in the spring of 2020, when he died he tested negative for COVID. But I sure would love to be able to test his blood from his hospitalization in November 2019. And I know people who were tested for COVID antibodies after the pandemic had been declared who recalled having been really ill previously-- a few months before the pandemic and they had antibodies. So it was clear that the mysterious pneumonia like illness that had made a number of people sick before COVID was in supposedly in our midst may very well have been COVID.
My preacher’s wife had it in late 2019. No sense of taste or smell and total exhaustion. She’s young and thin, so she recovered easily, but we know what it was.
We live in SW Missouri.
My dad, who had Wenger's for years (an autoimmune disease that affects lungs and kidneys) became incredibly ill in November of 2019. The doctors were a bit stumped by his presentation....they treated him like he had pneumonia or a bronchial infection (which was something that always happened with him usually around feb each year). I literally thought he was done that November. However, he rallied. But looking back at some of his symptoms....I must confess that I suspect he had COVID. While he rallied in December through to February of 2020, he took a turn for the worst and died in May of 2020. At the time, he again presented with lung issues. My feeling is that he was one of the vulnerable who are more susceptible to the flu or a respiratory illness like COVID. Of course, in the spring of 2020, when he died he tested negative for COVID. But I sure would love to be able to test his blood from his hospitalization in November 2019. And I know people who were tested for COVID antibodies after the pandemic had been declared who recalled having been really ill previously-- a few months before the pandemic and they had antibodies. So it was clear that the mysterious pneumonia like illness that had made a number of people sick before COVID was in supposedly in our midst may very well have been COVID.