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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Interestingly, I don't know that it's COVID. I'm in CO and pretty much everyone I know, including me, has been sick recently, and we all tested negative for COVID. Could be a spicy new variant, but we all also had incredibly painful sore throats, which I never had the couple of times I had the rona.

Anyway, not saying it's not, but I think we've all kind of forgotten other illnesses still exist.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If anyone actually read the article, the second sentence literally says it's all respiratory diseases.

    "In total, 15 states plus New York City are experiencing "high" or "very high" levels of respiratory illness activity, defined as people going to the doctor with symptoms from any respiratory disease including flu, COVID, RSV and the common cold."

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I did, and I know it's all respiratory. I was mostly responding to the implication in the first comment that it's all COVID. I got the newest COVID booster and a flu shot about a month before I got sick, so I'm leaning towards RSV for me personally. 0/10 would absolutely not recommend.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Both my parents have been fighting covid for the last 3 weeks. My mom hasn't tested positive the whole time, and my dad has. But she very obviously has the same symptoms, so a varying degree.

    I wouldn't trust negative tests with this variant. They even got brand new tests thinking their old tests were just not reliable for this variant.

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