“American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.”
“The researchers studied almost 7,400 blood donations made in nine US states between December 13, 2019 and January 17, 2020. Evidence of Covid-19 bodies antibodies, the presence of which suggest a person had contact with the virus, were present in 106 of those samples, according to the study.”
“This means coronavirus could have been in the US a month before it saw its first confirmed case, and weeks before the Chinese authorities announced the infection in the city of Wuhan.”
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I got really sick right after coming home from a cruise in December. (As did my whole fam, even my parents who flew home 2 weeks later). I think maybe we got it in one of the airports because they were staggered by 2 weeks and we all only got sick once home.
Started as a dry cough and just feeling like shit, it got worse and I think I got a little pneumonia. I didn’t go to the doctor at all because I hadn’t met my deductible and it would be a waste to pay full price in December, but I was probably the most sick I’ve ever been and it was for 2 weeks.
Afterwards I felt fine, but I had a persistent cough for about a month afterwards.