Interesting COVID read for my CA peeps

[WS9D]

https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-stu...d-19/32073873#

[ELLimon]

Interesting. I think I’m one of the ones that got it early on and went undetected.

[YYZed]

Colleague quote back in Late December, "got this cold and I think it turned into walking pneumonia. It's hard to breath."

[Playinwittime]

Very interesting indeed. Under this theory, any of us could have been exposed earlier, had mild symptoms and developed antibodies.

[Dubshack]

Thanks for sharing.


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[uscmatt99]

If this is the case, I’d be interested in the author’s hypothesis as to why there was no exponential spread of the disease in the absence of social distancing. Every other place that this has taken hold, it had grown exponentially, as far as we know. While I have little faith that there is herd immunity in California, I advocate any studies we can do to arm ourselves with as much information as possible.

[Blansky]

My wife flies a lot and had a flu like thing back in December with a nasty cough as well.

Anecdotal evidence of very little, but we talked about it a couple of weeks ago.

I got that wrong. She corrected me and said she had it after coming back from Bangkok in October and had it for about 6 weeks.

Apparently there is some evidence that different blood types have had different degrees of symptoms as well.

[Phooi]

Originally Posted by uscmatt99

If this is the case, I’d be interested in the author’s hypothesis as to why there was no exponential spread of the disease in the absence of social distancing. Every other place that this has taken hold, it had grown exponentially, as far as we know. While I have little faith that there is herd immunity in California, I advocate any studies we can do to arm ourselves with as much information as possible.

I agree that it’s important to try to understand this virus from as many directions as possible. However, without the baseline of pervasive testing, both PCR and the anti-body tests, all anyone can do is speculate. I hope that we can get to pervasive testing soon.

More likely is that CA is benefiting from early and aggressive SIP policy and that the state is geographically large. At some point, I hope to have enough data points to see what the spread looks like by neighborhood.

[pickettt]

I live in a So Cal city 3 miles from an airport with direct flights to/from China. I live 2 miles from a large Kaiser Permanente campus. Hospital is quieter than normal. So far, we’re told 28 cases, no deaths.

[piratfisk]

Thank you for the article.

[Recondope]

Originally Posted by YYZed

Colleague quote back in Late December, "got this cold and I think it turned into walking pneumonia. It's hard to breath."

Sounds similar to my primary care physician when I saw him a few days before Christmas, he said he had just returned after having what he thought was pneumonia that laid him out for a couple weeks.

Thanks for sharing article OP.

[Tri-Tip]

I had a weird cough in December that was bad for about 3 weeks and took a good 2 1/2 months to completely go away. It started 2 days after I got back from near the bay area (I was just north of Walnut Creek).

I never felt sick, or had a sore throat, just an annoying cough.