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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Healthiest year ever! She was sick on and off all Feb 2020, which is her usual, a minor virus followed by months of hacking cough (asthma). [b]At the end of Feb, she had a mystery illness that her ped was sure was the flu but tested negative for flu.[/b] She has not been sick since. Masking and increased cleaning at school is a game-changer![/quote]

COVID was already here in the US at that point. I've heard lots of speculating that the mysterious illnesses running rampant through schools last year may have included COVID as well as a bad strain of flu B.[/quote]

I remember at one point in February, half my DC's K class was out.  When I spoke to the teacher about catching up on stuff he missed, she was like "don't worry, half the class has been out."  Some was flu, but ot other parents told me that they tested negative for flu.

Then again, all the anecdotes I've heard from parents whose kids were known to have had COVID were that the kids that age were basically asymptomatic (and my kids' school now tests weekly so we've had confirmed cases), so who knows?
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I"m the top poster and I would love to know if it was COVID. At the time COVID tests and the antibody test weren't available and it's my understanding that the current antibody tests wouldn't give us any real answer. We live in NE and were in Boston at a tourist attraction very close to the BioGen conference at the same time as the conference, so we have a clearer source of infection than most people, but there isn't any way to know for sure. I still feel bad that I took my sick kid into a CVS to pick up tamiflu and everything was an s***show and she was lying on her backpack on the floor for an extended time while I tried to get her prescription filled.[/quote]

When you get your shot- you will be able to know. If the 1st shot gives you horrible side effects, you've already had covid (and the 2nd shot will give you no side effects). If the 1st shot is nothing and the 2nd shot gives you side effects, you haven't had covid. [/quote]

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