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Old Mar 13, 2020, 6:21 pm
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MoreMilesPlease
 
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Originally Posted by Need
Last week my friend got really sick. He just got back from UK. He had 104F fever, shortness of breath, and cough. He went to the ER... they said he has symptoms of Covid-19, took his sample but then came back and said they are not allow to test him. They said California has shortage of tests so they only test people who had travelled to the hot zones... and UK is not one of them.

If he really got covid-19, then he said it is not like flu. It is much stronger and he lost over 15 lb in 3 days.

There is a huge spectrum of symptoms. Not everyone responds the same way or with the same severity. That is the issue. People have the virus but aren't "critical" so they go about infecting other people. That's why there is a pandemic.
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