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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 7
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    Yes. Me too. Mine lasted 3 weeks Dec 24-Jan 15 and was pretty bad and nearly flu-like (I was doing the 🤧tweets). I might never know.https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/1236357243110449152 …

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    My new headcanon is that the pneumonia I got in December was this
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      1. shockwave‏ @sh0ckto Mar 7
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        You should have antibodies for it that will hopefully be testable soon

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      2. Juan Diosdado‏ @ikonoklast Mar 7
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        There must be some kind of trace if you get tested after the fact? I also had some weird lungpain for a few days last year.

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      3. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Mar 7
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        The tests for it appear to be antigen tests, yes. I don't think they'll tell you *when* you got the antibodies. Whether he got it a while ago or more recently is gonna be hard to determine.

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      1. Sadeq Ali‏ @sahilz79 Mar 7
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        Would be careful with that kind of conclusion though - I was in a similar terrible state for 5 weeks starting the end of March last year - but I’m sure that my travel schedule back then exacerbated it - given the mortality rate for seniors, data would show a sudden uptick

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      2. multi_modality‏ @perleypaapcrabb Mar 7
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        It was most likely the flu

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 7
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        I had the flu shot but this year’s effectiveness is unclear so you could be right

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      2. Eric w/ one wild life‏ @MutualArising Mar 7
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        About 15 of us (loose friends) had something in Feb that was 1 wk cough -> 2 day v high fever -> sudden improvement -> lingering coughing/wheezing for awhile. All had highest fevers we've had in many years that broke suddenly. Could be this years flu, but most of us had shots.

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      3. Eric w/ one wild life‏ @MutualArising Mar 7
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        All of us said that it qualitatively felt different than any other sickness we've ever had with the rapid fever spike & recovery but who knows, apophenia is also a thing

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      2. quince‏ @quince Mar 7
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        The genetic analysis of the Washington outbreak indicates that at least that cluster came over more recently. (But I get the brain's need to pattern fit; we had China travel in Dec + a truly awful cold in Jan/Feb and I keep re-counting the days to convince myself there's no link)

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        Is the genetic drift estimate that accurate? Couldn’t both have come from an earlier common source?

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