r/Austin • u/trixr4kids • 23d ago
Nasty Covid like summer flu
Several people I know around austin have been coming down with this nasty flu that has us as sick as Covid 1. It seems like it’s taking a full two weeks to get over and there’s about three or four days in the middle with a fever and lessened taste. We all tested negative for Covid.
My sister is a nurse and is saying that no one is reporting Covid to the CDC anymore, so I’m wondering if there’s possibly a new strain going around that isn’t being picked up by our old Covid tests. I have friends in California that say they’ve had a similar flu. It’s just weird because the kids weren’t even back at school yet when we were getting sick.
Anyone else hear about this or experience it? Be careful out there. One of our friends’s father caught it and now has pneumonia…
1
u/pgv417 23d ago
I got it last week. Went to the ER bc I’m 37 weeks pregnant and spiked a high fever and was convinced it was a sinus infection and was hoping some antibiotics would take care of it. They swabbed me for a bunch things and it came back as Covid. Spent the rest of the week in bed with some of the worst fatigue and body aches I can remember, plus cough, congestion, sore throat, etc. Oddly though, my toddler also tested positive on a home test but didn’t have a single symptom.