re: #176 Dr Lizardo

And in a bit of COVID-19 related news from here, my local university hospital has been doing blood-serum tests from volunteers who believed they might have had COVID-19 already. And to the surprise of perhaps no one, 40% of participants have indeed had the disease in the last 90 days. When those who had it last year, in the first wave (including yours truly) are factored in, the number could be as high as a whopping 60% in my region alone.

University hospitals in other regions are currently doing the same tests to see just how far COVID-19 has penetrated into the overall population.

Something knocked me on my ass for about 10 days in early December last year. I know it was viral, but at the time I didn’t think it was Covid (I didn’t get tested) because I had no fever, no chest congestion, no breathing issues or drop in blood oxygen (I keep a monitor for such at home). I did have a bit of fatigue but I was still able to function most of the day. My worst symptoms were a headache, a very mild cough and a runny nose. Oh and it felt like someone had inflated my head like a balloon.

I got through it and have felt fine since. No one else in my household got sick. If that somehow was Covid, I got seriously lucky.