Am I crazy to think my son and I had COVID19 in January?

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tylercsbn9
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12:42a, 7/18/20
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Background: Back in January my 1 year old (who goes to daycare) had a fever he could not break, coughing, and fast paced breathing. We took him to our ped and got and RSV test. Popped positive for rsv. Our ped told us to just go home and rest and if he started breathing in so hard that if you could see his ribs to bring him in. A day or two later that started happening so we went to urgent care but they told us not to worry. A few days later he was fine.

I can't remember exactly but a week maybe two after I got a fever I couldn't break, cough, and body aches. Lasted like two days and I was fine.

I never really thought much because of the positive RSV test but I've been wondering if perhaps it's possible we had it. I definitely think it was here in the USA way before March.
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In reply to tylercsbn9 • 3:01a, 7/18/20
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Sounds like you both had RSV
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5:50a, 7/18/20
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I was sure we had it in February. Wife was sick as hell and had a cough for three weeks. Youngest daughter had fever for almost a week. Flu negative.

Whole family negative for antibodies on the finger ***** test and then wife and daughter went for full blood draw test and were negative.
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7:51a, 7/18/20
Every patient we have had with a similar anecdote have all tested negative for antibodies.
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8:14a, 7/18/20
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There are at least 20 viruses, a dozen bacteria, and even some funguses that cause respiratory infections. If you just got better, I would assume it wasn't bacterial or fungal, but that still leaves a large number of potential viral causes.

Flu negative rules out a few of the viruses assuming it is not a false negative. Depending on the flu test, the false negative rate can be pretty high.
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8:43a, 7/18/20
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If you can, go donate blood. They'll test your COVID antibodies for free, and you get to help someone in need. If you are positive then you can donate plasma and save a bunch of lives
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In reply to BiochemAg97 • 9:33a, 7/18/20
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BiochemAg97 said:
There are at least 20 viruses, a dozen bacteria, and even some funguses that cause respiratory infections. If you just got better, I would assume it wasn't bacterial or fungal, but that still leaves a large number of potential viral causes.

Flu negative rules out a few of the viruses assuming it is not a false negative. Depending on the flu test, the false negative rate can be pretty high.
But, but, but, .... I want it to be Covid. It's not a good story if I just had the common cold.
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In reply to Pelayo • 9:34a, 7/18/20
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Pelayo said:
Sounds like you both had RSV
Can they test for that? Oh wait, they did.
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4:07p, 7/18/20
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After 3 weeks of testing every blood donation, we are still only seeing about a 1% positive rate from donors.almost everyone who swears they had it is negative.
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4:24p, 7/18/20
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We tested our 18 employees in the RGV. All negative.

My dad was tested too and he swore he had it 6 months ago, he even had the 'broken glass' lung presentation. Negative.
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In reply to SoulSlaveAG2005 • 4:29p, 7/18/20
SoulSlaveAG2005 said:
After 3 weeks of testing every blood donation, we are still only seeing about a 1% positive rate from donors.almost everyone who swears they had it is negative.
A long way from here to herd immunity
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In reply to Pelayo • 7:42p, 7/18/20
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Pelayo said:
Sounds like you both had RSV
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In reply to SoulSlaveAG2005 • 8:39p, 7/18/20
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SoulSlaveAG2005 said:
After 3 weeks of testing every blood donation, we are still only seeing about a 1% positive rate from donors.almost everyone who swears they had it is negative.

And then at the same time you hear these stories of all the people who test positive for the virus or antibodies who would have never thought they had it.
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In reply to tylercsbn9 • 7:39p, 10/8/20
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tylercsbn9 said:
Background: Back in January my 1 year old (who goes to daycare) had a fever he could not break, coughing, and fast paced breathing. We took him to our ped and got and RSV test. Popped positive for rsv. Our ped told us to just go home and rest and if he started breathing in so hard that if you could see his ribs to bring him in. A day or two later that started happening so we went to urgent care but they told us not to worry. A few days later he was fine.

I can't remember exactly but a week maybe two after I got a fever I couldn't break, cough, and body aches. Lasted like two days and I was fine.

I never really thought much because of the positive RSV test but I've been wondering if perhaps it's possible we had it. I definitely think it was here in the USA way before March.
No, you are not crazy.

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10:49a, 10/9/20
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Feel like the second post answered the question pretty effectively a couple months back.
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12:56p, 10/9/20
I'm so confused. I can't remember which political party I'm willing to die for if the virus was here last fall. Was it the Dems? Or the Republicans? Maybe it was the Libertarians...
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In reply to tylercsbn9 • 2:54p, 10/9/20
tylercsbn9 said:
Background: Back in January my 1 year old (who goes to daycare) had a fever he could not break, coughing, and fast paced breathing. We took him to our ped and got and RSV test. Popped positive for rsv. Our ped told us to just go home and rest and if he started breathing in so hard that if you could see his ribs to bring him in. A day or two later that started happening so we went to urgent care but they told us not to worry. A few days later he was fine.

I can't remember exactly but a week maybe two after I got a fever I couldn't break, cough, and body aches. Lasted like two days and I was fine.

I never really thought much because of the positive RSV test but I've been wondering if perhaps it's possible we had it. I definitely think it was here in the USA way before March.
No. Absolutely Not crazy to think you had it. There seems to be at least some evidence it was here then. Because the messages from the scientific community and governments have been all over the place, you can't rule out the possibility it was here and you had it.
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In reply to tylercsbn9 • 11:23p, 10/10/20
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OP, same. My 8 year old claimed he wasn't feeling as we were going back to school after Christmas break. Thought it was normal "I've been off for two weeks and don't want to go back" but had fever and coughing and stuff. Wasn't the flu, strep, or pneumonia or anything else they tested for. Took him about two weeks to get over, he does have some minor respiratory issues, and now he's fine as can be and had been for months. But yeah i totally think now that he had it, and wife, me, daughter and infant all around him and no one else got sick.
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In reply to JABQ04 • 8:18a, 10/11/20
JABQ04 said:
OP, same. My 8 year old claimed he wasn't feeling as we were going back to school after Christmas break. Thought it was normal "I've been off for two weeks and don't want to go back" but had fever and coughing and stuff. Wasn't the flu, strep, or pneumonia or anything else they tested for. Took him about two weeks to get over, he does have some minor respiratory issues, and now he's fine as can be and had been for months. But yeah i totally think now that he had it, and wife, me, daughter and infant all around him and no one else got sick.


Same thing happened to me in Dec. of 2018. 106 fever, in bed for a week, negative for flu. Unidentified virus. I also had it in 2013. Missed almost a week of work. Negative for flu.
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