There’s a 2-week-long “nasty cold” circulating where I live, I’d guess it’s one of the “current four” but don’t know if anyone’s bothering to identify it.
EDIT: probably not: “Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses being the most common….
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… The most commonly implicated virus is a rhinovirus (30–80), a type of picornavirus with 99 known serotypes.[29][30] Other commonly implicated viruses include human *coronavirus (≈ 15)*,[31][32] influenza viruses (10–15),[33] adenoviruses (5),[33] human respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses other than rhinoviruses, human parainfluenza viruses, and metapneumovirus.[34] Frequently more than one virus is present.[35] In total over 200 viral types are associated with colds.[3]…
Your not to far from where I live, that nasty 2 week cold your talking about is most likely the RSV virus. It’s been spreading where I live, nasty cold symptoms to an adult but affects young children and the elderly a lot worse.
Yes, about 2 1/2 weeks ago my 8 year old granddaughter awoke in the middle of the night crying out in pain and burning up with a fever. We took her to the ER and one of the first things they did was take a nasal swab, no blood tests, no x-rays, just the nasal swab. Within an hour they informed us that she had the RSV virus. I thought it was strange that they knew exactly what test to run.
As for colds, if I know one’s “going around” (insert another chorus of “Stay the Hell home!!!”), I’ll load up on vitamin C. Up to 10g/day is fine; more’n that just buys you mild diarrhœa.
I never get “just a cold”. Whatever I end up picking up when those walking disease-vectors go aerosolising live-virus all over the place, ends up knocking me out for a coupla weeks, and add another 3wks ’til I purge all the crap that collected in my lungs and sinuses.
So I just forewarn everyone at work, if I get sick, I’m going to be outsick. No working from home, sure as Hell no soldiering through it at work. 100% recuperation effort, every other priority is rescinded.
One place where I worked, they had 10 fully-paid sick-days, and another 10 at half-pay. So you literally had to be out a whole month — 20 workdays — to be completely on your own.
Where I am now, it’s only 5 days, so of course people come in dripping and snorking and doing all other sorts of vile things. Ecch.
An eye opener from a couple people who’ve lived in china for 20yrs, and both married to chinese woman. One is married to a chinese physician, not sure what the other one does. They are both speak fluent mandarin. Way more people infected than being reported