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What was your experience like?
Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.
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Interestingly enough, Japan is chalking up success in containment of COVID to its contact tracing system originally developed for TB: https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/japans-contact-tracing-method-...
Not surprising, TB is also a respiratory disease with a long dormancy period. While the details are slightly different (latent TB patients apparently aren’t infectious), one would expect a TB tracing program to be roughly correct for any other respiratory disease. I’m sure the SARS and bird flu outbreaks have given regional governments an opportunity to consider how to prepare as well.
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Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.
Just FYI: In NorCal there was no "crazy" or ambient stress, unless one overreacted to the headlines. Very calm here.
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Likely s/signal/single/
Nope, a signal symptom is a thing: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/signal+symp... "A symptom that is premonitory of an impending condition such as the aura that precedes an attack of epilepsy or migraine."
I get that loss of smell is a symptom of COVID-19, but what’s so special about 1 AM?
When I had the bug in March my symptoms would be sparse during the day and suddenly get worse from 1AM to 6AM. Similar for my partner. Cough would ramp up, cold sweats, fever, and my throat would turn into a sun bleached garden hose full of glitter. We both also had a loss of smell but it wasn’t the primary symptom that bothered us. Anecdotal, but possibly related.
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Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.
Just FYI: In NorCal there was no "crazy" or ambient stress, unless one overreacted to the headlines. Very calm here.
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Not surprising, TB is also a respiratory disease with a long dormancy period. While the details are slightly different (latent TB patients apparently aren’t infectious), one would expect a TB tracing program to be roughly correct for any other respiratory disease. I’m sure the SARS and bird flu outbreaks have given regional governments an opportunity to consider how to prepare as well.
TB has proven to be a great practice run for COVID. Southern African countries have not messed about with it. I still remember just how strict things became even with minor outbreaks. For something like a decade, Zimbabwe has required Foot and Mouth Disease control at borders - long after the risk has passed. I was temperature screened in an airport sometime in the early 2010s in South Africa for a domestic flight. M…
It appears about 3200 tests per million are reported for all of Africa, compared to say Spain at ~110,000 or the US at around 96,000.
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When I had the bug in March my symptoms would be sparse during the day and suddenly get worse from 1AM to 6AM. Similar for my partner. Cough would ramp up, cold sweats, fever, and my throat would turn into a sun bleached garden hose full of glitter. We both also had a loss of smell but it wasn’t the primary symptom that bothered us. Anecdotal, but possibly related.
Huh. I was the exact opposite; there was no schedule for my symptoms. Some days I woke up great, and was exhausted by noon, other days I woke up feeling terrible, and had tons of energy in the afternoon.
I get that loss of smell is a symptom of COVID-19, but what’s so special about 1 AM?
When I had the bug in March my symptoms would be sparse during the day and suddenly get worse from 1AM to 6AM. Similar for my partner. Cough would ramp up, cold sweats, fever, and my throat would turn into a sun bleached garden hose full of glitter. We both also had a loss of smell but it wasn’t the primary symptom that bothered us. Anecdotal, but possibly related.
Loss of smell wasn't one of the more noticeable symptoms but it persisted for far longer and when smell suddenly 'turned on' and I could all of a sudden smell cinnamon when I sprinkled it onto morning oatmeal the smell seemed insanely noticeable due to its long absence.
Shows Texas, Arizona and Florida as the most hits.