It's just baffling, isn't it? Women do get it worse than men-- a bit, it seems, though I know one couple that had the original version and the guy nearly died and his wife didn't get it at all!tonguengroover wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:44 pm Damn sunrise, that's a lot. I'd be masked up too.
I have no idea why my wife has had covid twice and I didn't catch it. We had been doing the normal stuff. She's snoring in my face,kissing showering driving together. Unexplainable.
In 2020 I found out I had Hep C.
Went on an antiviral that's used I think in conjunction with another antiviral to combat covid.
Prior to any covid vaccine I got the new shingles vax even though I had the previous single dose one. I had also been given the tetanus shot and pneumonia vax all at the same time. Huge speckled rash all over my body for six months.
When I finished my Hep C treatment and was free of the virus my rash disappeared.
Booth the covid vaxs and boosters really made me sick for a couple days not so much the bivalent.
But I've been seriously exposed to covid several times and have never gotten sick. Or tested positive.
One caveat is in January 2020 I got sick before covid symptoms were well known. Thought it was flu, coughed up blood and serious headache cold like symptoms.
I think I had covid because since then I can't taste shit.
I do suffer from what seems like sinus allergy like problems since then quite often. Sudafed is my friend.
The wife's been hacking away with cold like symptoms for days but does not test positive for covid any longer. I guess that's the Paxlovid working. No fever.
Stay safe.
I think your assumptions are reasonable. I think it was circulating in the US even in December-- San Francisco mainly, if memory serves. And coughing blood, that's something I heard. A friend of mine got it in Rome-- idiot, he went to Rome! And he and his kid were hacking blood.
I am SO glad I played a show back east in 2020, and saw my east coast friends, before we all got sent to hell in March.
Glad you pulled through, glad your wife is on the mend! What I hear over and over again with Omicron-- if you get symptoms, and not everyone does-- that the test never lines up with the symptoms easing. I bet it's on the way out for her. The thing I heard over and over again from my young adult clients: The ones who partied and the ones who went back to sports too soon were usually the ones who rebounded. Some older folks, we'll rebound for no reason, too, Paxlovid or not.