People are getting sick with mystery illnesses and testing negative for COVID, RSV, and flu. Here's why.

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Misa decided this morning to start wearing her Covid mask again to work at Dollar General. She says they are selling lots of cold/flu medicine. Also her granddaughter just got Covid. She is in isolation but not feeling to well. This is an interesting article that tells of mysterious cases of cold/flu like illnesses happening all over.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year ... to be a respiratory disease.

"The cold weather, the gathering indoors, all of that is good for respiratory viruses, and bad for symptoms," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing on Monday, stressing that multiple respiratory illnesses are here early this holiday season, challenging overstretched hospitals across the country.

Flu cases and hospitalizations have soared since Thanksgiving, but some people are complaining that they're testing negative for the flu, RSV, COVID, while still extremely sick.

Writer Cora Harrington said on Twitter that she got some "weird as hell virus" that made her "basically unconscious for a couple days," calling it "one of the strangest illnesses I've ever had."

General practitioner Stephanie de Giorgio from the UK said, similarly, that some kind of "not-flu, not-covid, not-RSV thing" was going around her workplace, and "felt bloody awful," prompting a fever and sore throat.

Doctors from at least three continents say that many different viruses — not just flu and COVID — are having a real "party" this year. People also shouldn't discount the idea that a COVID, RSV, or flu test taken early on may not necessarily go positive. Here's what to consider if you're feeling feverish right now. "

4 minute read

https://www.insider.com/sick-dont-have-covid-flu-rsv-what-it-is-2022-12
 

Paco Dennis said:
Misa decided this morning to start wearing her Covid mask again to work at Dollar General. She says they are selling lots of cold/flu medicine. Also her granddaughter just got Covid. She is in isolation but not feeling to well. This is an interesting article that tells of mysterious cases of cold/flu like illnesses happening all over.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year ... to be a respiratory disease.

"The cold weather, the gathering indoors, all of that is good for respiratory viruses, and bad for symptoms," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing on Monday, stressing that multiple respiratory illnesses are here early this holiday season, challenging overstretched hospitals across the country.

Flu cases and hospitalizations have soared since Thanksgiving, but some people are complaining that they're testing negative for the flu, RSV, COVID, while still extremely sick.

Writer Cora Harrington said on Twitter that she got some "weird as hell virus" that made her "basically unconscious for a couple days," calling it "one of the strangest illnesses I've ever had."

General practitioner Stephanie de Giorgio from the UK said, similarly, that some kind of "not-flu, not-covid, not-RSV thing" was going around her workplace, and "felt bloody awful," prompting a fever and sore throat.

Doctors from at least three continents say that many different viruses — not just flu and COVID — are having a real "party" this year. People also shouldn't discount the idea that a COVID, RSV, or flu test taken early on may not necessarily go positive. Here's what to consider if you're feeling feverish right now. "

4 minute read

https://www.insider.com/sick-dont-have-covid-flu-rsv-what-it-is-2022-12
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As a person who had the adult's version of RSV for 2 weeks in 2021, and almost lost my wife at that time due to RSV (she was in the hospital for 8 nights), I can promise that RSV is also real and nothing to play with. And, in case someone is wondering, my wife caught it from the kids she was driving to school (she drove a school bus in 2021)...I caught it from my wife. Thankfully we made it through, but we'd never wish this on anyone.
 

I heard about all kinds of respiratory illnesses & stores selling out of OTC medicines. It is quite a mystery. But I doubt it has anything to do with the winter weather & people staying indoors.
I recall a couple of years ago during Covid, it was reported that "The Summer heat will kill off Covid." Wishful thinking?
 
Mrs. L insists that the current wave of illness is due to lockdown. She reasons that with people spending more time indoors, they have lost much of their natural immunity. I'm not sure about that - we were outside almost as much during lockdown as before it.
 
"we were outside almost as much during lockdown as before it."

But were you following Covid safety rules? Staying 6ft apart, wearing a mask and using hand sanitizer? If so think about before Covid. Going places, interacting with others not sanitizing your hands after visit family and friends, touching everyday objects, being in crowded places. Your immune system was used to that and built up resistance. Over 2 years without that left our immune system weakened. That's just my opinion about it.
 
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