I just found out my sister had covid-19 back in early February

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I know she said she was sick as she's ever been and I drop stuff off for her at her door to an apartment but she wouldn't open the door for me cuz she don't me to catch thinking it was just a flu though and I guess you left the door unlocked cuz she felt like she was going to die and they just did a test last week and it came back that she has the antibodies for it so she did have it back in early February. Sorry for the talk and text on the punctuation. I wonder how many people had it back in the winter time and never knew it

[we can do it]

1. I think my best friend in Akron did too.

About same time, February.

[Ms. Toad]

19. There were 3 cases I know of in late January in Akron.

(later confirmed by antibody tests).

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Funny you say this, back in early spring, we had a wave of something come through, I suspect

that it was possibly covid 19, but don't know for sure. Regardless, we all still hunkered down, masks and social distancing too.

[Tribetime]

11. She said it started with the dry cough and a fever and got worse and by the third day she couldn't t

Drink gasoline and not tasted it

[SWBTATTReg]

17. Wow. I certainly hope that she's doing much better! My best to you all!

[octoberlib]

3. Probably quite a few. They just thought they had the flu.

[Siwsan]

4. My brother had it back in March

He hasn't been tested for antibodies, but his symptoms were spot on. He said he's never felt sicker. And he was at my house a couple of times, before we realized what he had. So it was right about the time he was most contagious. Either I escaped getting it (I had a cold, at the time) or I was asymptomatic.

Down the road I might just get an antibody test.

[dweller]

5. I didn't know antibodies lasted that long

but glad if they do .

I’m convinced I had it around the same time, late feb and most of March ... sickest I’ve ever been, but no fever ... all lung and fighting for breath throughout the day and night, and at times wondering if I might just stop breathing at all 😖

I now have aftershock of it all, many symptoms which I guess I’ll have to live with

Glad your sister survived

✌🏻

[Dem2]

6. Surprised the antibodies lasted that long

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I had a time in March where I felt odd for about 10 days, but the rules governing who got tested were strict then. I would be tested in a heartbeat with the same symptoms today - just shows how there's confusion at the beginning of these sorts of unusual situations. Anyway, I figured there's no point testing for antibodies since they likely wouldn't show on a test.

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12. Me too

[Freddie]

7. My daughter and grandson had it

September, early Oct. She did everything right - never goes anywhere, no restaurants etc., always masked at the grocery or picking up takeout. We think the boy got it from an asymptomatic cousin on Labor Day (school hadn’t started yet). He had a weird “stomach virus” a day or two later which lasted a week with a pretty high fever and diarrhea. Not a typical norovirus. A week later my daughter started with more typical cold-type symptoms and no taste or smell. She tested positive and after the whole family (including me) got tested the only other positive was the boy. I read where it often has gastro symptoms in children. He’s fine now, she was sick a good 2 weeks and feels better but still gets tired easily.

[Hekate]

8. My sis had it in January/February; 5 days in the hospital sucking oxygen as hard as she could...

They thought it was super-serious asthma, heading toward COPD, but all these months later it turns out she has COVID antibodies.

She lives in upstate New York & had been on a company-mandated working-vacay in the Caribbean with her husband — so lots of airports in addition to the resort. Her husband just got the word it’s time to buy tickets again for the next one, and she told him he’ll have to go alone.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Me.

January 26th.

[Tribetime]

14. Glad you made it through hopefully you're okay still

[Cracklin Charlie]

22. Thank you, I think I'm okay.

It was rough stuff.

[leighbythesea2]

10. Me

Jan 17.
Was taken aback at severity of "what version of flu is this?". Lost taste and smell. Quarantined myself away from my mom, in my bedroom.

Worried if she got "this version" too how Id take care of both of us.

My husband got it, but we have two houses/2 states and jobs near each of them. (Mines contractual & pure luck near the house-- that had been rented). He needed a steriod, and I finally got codeine cough syrup 3 weeks later. So by default we were sick alone. That is something else--where accidentally worked in favor of not exposing others. It wasnt until the taste/smell marker became known in news that I even suspected.

I had had full bloodwork a week before it all. I wonder if id show antibodies now.

[Tribetime]

13. That's what my sister said she lost complete sense of taste by the third day

But it started off with a dry cough and a fever and the third day was once you lost the taste

[samnsara]

15. two ppl i know were so sick in Feb they went to ER but werent tested back then..

...both eventually had antibody tests during the summer (after begging for one) and neither had antibodies!

[Golden Raisin]

16. I wasn't tested but am pretty sure

I had a mild case in January. Dry, relentless hacking cough. Waking up in the middle of the night(s), literally having to get out of bed to stand upright because I was gasping for air. One night I actually thought I would have to go to an Emergency Room (something I would normally avoid like the plague - no pun intended.) I toughed it out that night. Started to feel a little better after a week then it hit/repeated again. Twice. Whole episode lasted about 3 weeks. Generally felt somewhat like a really bad flu, but paradoxically I kept saying to myself, this is different from a flu.

[Ms. Toad]

18. I was exposed in January, in Ohio, two months before the first confirmed case.

Similar story. Coworker had "walking pneumonia," spouse had a "sinus infection," daughter had skin lesions. Upon discovering characteristic scarring in my coworker's lungs they did an antibody test. She tested positive for antibodies.

I was in the same room with her, less than 6' away, for an hour once a week during that period.

I also had a former student in February I was helping with the bar exam - sicker than he's ever been before. In retrospect, he believes it was COVID 19, but has not been tested for antibodies.

My daughter also had a 2-day something in early March. It was diagnosed via tele-health as the flu and either responded to Tamiflu - OR - was a mild case of COVID 19.

[Tracer]

20. Early March.

Thought I had awful bronchitis, so the docs said "OK, youve got bronchitis". No tests, and I had every symptom of Covid, including loss of taste. Took a month to even go up a set of stairs without gasping for brea

[Tribetime]

21. Yep you had it