{"id":26885,"date":"2020-05-06T23:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/why-so-many-people-are-convinced-that-they-had-covid-19-already\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T23:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:26:53","slug":"why-so-many-people-are-convinced-that-they-had-covid-19-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusreports.net\/why-so-many-people-are-convinced-that-they-had-covid-19-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many people are convinced that they had COVID-19 already"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p>The week before Thanksgiving, Barbara O\u2019Donnell came down with a wretched cough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just really bad, and it was constant,\u201d says O\u2019Donnell, 62.  \u201cI would turn purple,\u201d gasping for breath. She could barely walk up the hills near her home outside of Philadelphia. Though she is a smoker, she was healthy and strong \u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t get the flu, ever\u201d \u2014 and had never experienced anything like this before.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<p>It \u201cfelt like my lungs were so full that I wasn\u2019t going to make it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks of resting at home, and the illness vanished as quickly as it came. Two months later, California reported the country\u2019s first case of covid-19 that wasn\u2019t acquired via travel or direct contact with someone who had been abroad. Three weeks after that, Philadelphia closed nonessential businesses and issued a stay-at-home order. O\u2019Donnell\u2019s job, as a privately employed aide for an elderly patient in a nursing home, was put on hold \u2014 the nursing home permitted only its own staff on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in her apartment, the thought occurred to her: \u201cWhat if it was here way before they think it was?\u201d she wondered. Was that cough covid?<\/p>\n<p>The virus <i>was <\/i>here before anyone thought it was, we now know. Health officials in Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco, recently determined that at least two people who died in early and mid-February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/04\/22\/death-coronavirus-first-california\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_9&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">tested positive for the virus<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t answer the question that has been spreading<b><\/b>, afflicting anyone who recently \u2014 or even <i>kind of<\/i> recently \u2014 experienced any covid symptoms:<\/p>\n<p><i>Did I have it? I think I had it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>\u201cI\u2019ve been getting emails from hundreds, maybe thousands of people telling me, \u2018I\u2019m sure I had it,\u2019\u2009\u201d Eran Bendavid, an associate professor of medicine specializing in infectious disease who is studying covid-19 at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am 99 percent sure I had it,\u201d says Janet Truchard, 58, who woke up in her Las Vegas home on Jan. 15 \u201csick as a dog\u201d with a fever, dry cough, migraine and chest pain. She visited several doctors who prescribed various courses of antibiotics, diagnosing her with sinusitis and then allergies. The cough persisted all the way through March 25, but a chest X-ray came back clear.<\/p>\n<p>Thinkihadititis is a condition afflicting people who experienced covid-like illnesses that befell them long before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/02\/28\/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_16&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus<\/a> was a thing. It happens when bits of news and scientific findings lodge in the parts of the brain that incubate hope \u2014 <i>Oh hey, maybe I already beat it!<\/i> \u2014 and anxiety \u2014 <i>Oh God, maybe I gave it to a bunch of people.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Like covid-19, thinkihadititis has infected some high-profile patients. \u201cSopranos\u201d star Michael Imperioli told <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/04\/27\/sopranos-star-michael-imperioli-certain-he-had-coronavirus\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=P6Twitter\" title=\"pagesix.com\">Page Six <\/a>he was \u201ccertain\u201d he caught the virus in early February. A star of the reality series \u201cLove Island\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/uk\/2020\/03\/24\/shaughna-thinks-she-had-coronavirus-when-she-was-on-love-island-149175\" title=\"thetab.com\">thinks she \u201chad the \u2019rona\u201d<\/a> while the show was filming in South Africa in January. And Patti Stanger, star of the Bravo show \u201cMillionaire Matchmaker,\u201d was stricken with shallow breathing, a fever, fatigue and nausea after a January vacation in Miami, despite flying with a face mask at the advice of her nail technician. She had to skip the Grammys and had a panic attack when her fever spiked to 102.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t get up for three weeks,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t eat a thing. I lived on bone broth and crackers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later on, when news broke that the coronavirus had arrived in America earlier than we ever knew, \u201dI thought, I could be one of those people,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started hearing from all these friends saying, \u2018I think I had it, I think I had it.\u2019\u200a\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>No one wants to have covid-19<\/b>, but everyone wants to have had it.<\/p>\n<p>And recent research suggests that many people have already had it without knowing. Epidemiologists have said that the number of infections greatly exceeds the official count of cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/antibody-tests-support-whats-been-obvious-covid-19-is-much-more-lethal-than-flu\/2020\/04\/28\/2fc215d8-87f7-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_26&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_26\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">potentially by a factor of 10 or more<\/a>, since people can be asymptomatic carriers of the illness, and because not every victim has been tested.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/commentaries\/detail\/immunity-passports-in-the-context-of-covid-19\" title=\"www.who.int\">World Health Organization<\/a> has cautioned against the assumption that those who have already had the illness can\u2019t get it again. Researchers are still learning about the protective benefits that the disease\u2019s antibodies might bestow on survivors.<\/p>\n<p>But after two long months of bad news about the painful effects and unpredictable deadliness of covid-19 \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/second-week-crash-is-time-of-peril-for-some-covid-19-patients\/2020\/04\/29\/3940fee2-8970-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_30&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_30\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">sudden crashes<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/04\/24\/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_30&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_30\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">mysterious strokes<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/coronavirus-destroys-lungs-but-doctors-are-finding-its-damage-in-kidneys-hearts-and-elsewhere\/2020\/04\/14\/7ff71ee0-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_30&#038;itid=lk_inline_manual_30\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">wide-ranging attacks on the body<\/a> \u2014 who could be blamed for wondering, optimistically, about whether they\u2019ve already joined the ranks of the Recovered?<\/p>\n<p>JoAnna Fischer is sure she had covid-19. She lost her sense of smell, and for three months, she had a cough and chest pain so bad she needed supplemental oxygen. Her husband came down with a respiratory illness, and so did her cat.<\/p>\n<p>One problem: Fischer fell ill all the way back in September, when she was living in northeastern Pennsylvania. That\u2019s far earlier than epidemiologists believe the disease could have come to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is 0.0% probability that #SARSCoV2 was circulating with community transmission in the US in or before Nov 2019,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trvrb\/status\/1249220105914875904\" title=\"twitter.com\">tweeted Trevor Bedford<\/a>, a computational biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who has been tracking the virus\u2019s genetic code and spread.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer isn\u2019t willing to give up her theory. \u201cWhen you\u2019re thinking about how this thing spread so fast,\u201d the 63-year-old says, \u201cit couldn\u2019t have just gotten here in December.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bendavid, the Stanford professor, said one person who wrote to him believed they caught the virus in 2018. \u201cThat, I think, is stretching it,\u201d says Bendavid.<\/p>\n<p>Thinkihadititis usually involves stretching the imagination to some degree. After all, covid-19 shares some symptoms with the seasonal flu and common allergies. Currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/covidview\/index.html\" title=\"www.cdc.gov\">fewer than 20 percent <\/a>of covid-19 tests are coming back positive, according to data reported to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, suggesting that the great majority of people who thought they had it \u2014 even in the middle of the pandemic \u2014 didn\u2019t actually have it.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that having already beat covid-19 is preferable to wondering if you\u2019re one of the people it\u2019s going to put in the hospital, thinkihadititis may be a form of positive thinking. <b><\/b>Humans are hardwired to anticipate positive outcomes, says Tali Sharot, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University College London who studies optimism and expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen there is something we want to believe, we are very good at interpreting the evidence in a way that would support that belief,\u201d Sharot says.<\/p>\n<p>The reverse is also true. \u201cSay there was a doctor saying that if you had it before, then the likelihood that you would get it again is higher, and it would be even more dangerous,\u201d says the professor. If that were the case, people \u201cwould probably look back to their illnesses and interpret certain symptoms as definitely<i> not<\/i> covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Whether it\u2019s a comfort or a source of anxiety, thinkihadititis represents a state of limbo.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? There\u2019s a cure.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;The only way to know<\/b> is to get an antibody test,&#8221; says Rachael Ayscue. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t know anywhere around here that&#8217;ll give one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ayscue, 47, lives in the suburbs of Raleigh, N.C. On Jan. 6, she felt sick, and before long she was coughing so much that it sometimes hurt to breathe. Then her daughter got sick, too. Raleigh didn\u2019t see its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/news\/press-releases\/north-carolina-identifies-first-case-covid-19\" title=\"www.ncdhhs.gov\">first confirmed covid-19 case until March 3<\/a>, but Ayscue wondered whether the tech workers of the Research Triangle had traveled to Asia over the holidays and brought the virus back. (Epidemiologists believe the earliest American cases <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/04\/12\/u-s-got-more-confirmed-index-cases-of-coronavirus-from-europe-than-from-china\/\" title=\"theintercept.com\">originated in Europe, not Asia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Antibody tests may provide relief from the fever of doubt. Also known as serology tests, they determine whether a patient\u2019s blood contains antibodies, which are proteins that help us fight off infection. The presence of antibodies means the patient\u2019s immune system has already been exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Those tests are now becoming available nationwide, although experts warn that their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/28\/health\/coronavirus-antibody-tests-terrible\/index.html\" title=\"www.cnn.com\">accuracy can vary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since it began offering appointments for antibody tests, the telemedicine provider <a href=\"https:\/\/plushcare.com\/\" title=\"plushcare.com\">PlushCare<\/a> saw \u201ca pretty overwhelming response [from] people who are interested,\u201d especially in harder-hit areas like New York, says James Wantuck, the platform\u2019s chief medical officer and co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>PlushCare\u2019s doctors remind patients that immunity is not a given and that they must continue social distancing and other protective measures. And if the tests come back negative, some patients \u2014 confident in their self-diagnosis and wary of possible testing inaccuracies \u2014 might not believe them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the patients are certainly disappointed,\u201d says Wantuck. \u201cI think everyone wants to have this in their rearview mirror or feel some sense of relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fischer, the woman who got sick last September, says she couldn\u2019t be convinced so easily. \u201cIf I get tested,\u201d she says, \u201cand I don\u2019t have the antibodies, I think I would ask for a different test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayscue says she plans to get an antibody test if she can, but she doesn\u2019t need one to feel comfortable returning to life as usual. She does not hesitate to go to the grocery store, sometimes without a mask. She says she supports the protesters who have demonstrated against strict lockdown rules in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve chosen not to be afraid,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/why-everyone-you-know-is-convinced-that-they-had-covid-19-already\/2020\/05\/05\/aef406ac-8a38-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week before Thanksgiving, Barbara O\u2019Donnell came down with a wretched cough.\u201cIt was just really bad, and it was constant,\u201d says O\u2019Donnell, 62. \u201cI would turn purple,\u201d gasping for breath. She could barely walk up the hills near her home outside of Philadelphia. 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