Best Posts in Thread: Flu ?

danbandanna · Jan 26, 2022

Dutchie said: ↑

I understand the urge to compare a new illness with something we know, especially when things come really close, but I am not aware of any strain of the influenza (flu) virus leaving around one in twenty patients with lingering symptoms for more than a year, which all strains of Covid-19 before Omicron did.
I share the hope that Omicron won't similarly disable some patients longer term, but it is definitely too early to conclude that. We simply don't know enough yet.
Therefore I would hope people will continue to try to protect themselves and others against getting infected.
As for personal experiences, whereas among friends and family in the Netherlands there have been multiple Covid cases, and my brother died from it last May, here in the Philippines there have been hardly any cases among friends, family and neighbours so far.
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Sorry for your loss Dutchie, may your brother RIP

Rye83 · Jan 25, 2022

PatO said: ↑

My wife, son, many extended family members have flu like symptoms - cold, one day fever, headache, body aches, tired. Must be contagious. Most have been vaccinated.
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This thing seems to be far more contagious than COVID. I've had had it, almost everyone I know has had it, many on this forum have had it. I don't recall the flu or common cold being so aggressively spread in this country. I think it could be the new COVID variant. Testing is not very reliable with this variant. (My bother-in-law recently tested positive for COVID but when my sister, their daughter, and my other sister got the exact same symptoms they did not get a positive result.)

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