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re: OT: Alabama Coronavirus Thread (see link in OP for case numbers and death totals in AL)
Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:43 am to paperwasp
Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:43 am to paperwasp
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We've noticed that many people recall having had a strange illness around the holidays, with negative tests for (the typical) flu.
Yep. A doctor friend of mine said his office had multiple instances of people coming in for flu like symptoms, but tested negative for it. They were baffled at the time, and he's now concerned this virus is more entrenched here than we know.
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Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:58 am to The Spleen
Been wondering that myself. I had a coworker who developed a really bad cough early in January and he had been to Chicago visiting family for Christmas. It lasted for about a month and no doctor could tell him what it was because he tested negative for everything.
Posted on 3/16/20 at 11:03 am to The Spleen
Well, have you guys read the whole conspiracy theory that the virus actually originated here in the States, probably at USAMRIID at Ft. Detrick? The story goes that it was an engineered virus and either accidentally or deliberately was transported to Wuhan with the US team for the military world games in that area and was unleashed on the world at the seafood market in Wuhan. There's a study by a virologist from Taiwan that supposedly studied the virus and found 5 separate haplotypes (variants) of it and the only country where he found all 5 haplotypes was the US which would point to the US being the origin.
Like I said, it's a very deep conspiracy theory with just enough factual information to make it possible and slightly plausible, but it's interesting at least.
Like I said, it's a very deep conspiracy theory with just enough factual information to make it possible and slightly plausible, but it's interesting at least.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 1:46 pm to The Spleen
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Yep. A doctor friend of mine said his office had multiple instances of people coming in for flu like symptoms, but tested negative for it. They were baffled at the time, and he's now concerned this virus is more entrenched here than we know.
I'm absolutely certain it has been too. I work EMS and we've been transporting 'flu like' cases for a while now.
One thing though, I find that encouraging rather than concerning. If it's been widespread since December or earlier and people haven't been stacking up in the morgue then it isn't as deadly even to at risk populations as currently believed.
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