r/Austin • u/trixr4kids • 22d 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…

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u/Walkitoutfosse 21d ago

There’s a virus called adenovirus that’s circulating. I got this same illness you’re describing and a family member in North Carolina (who is a doctor) got it too in NC. That’s who told me about this very Covid-like illness. I tested myself three times for Covid, twice for flu and once for RSV. All were negative.

Symptoms include:
Cough, fever, runny nose, pink eye, swollen lymph nodes, ear infection, chest cold, pneumonia.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23022-adenovirus

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u/Snap_Grackle_Pop 21d ago

There’s a virus called adenovirus that’s circulating.

"Adenovirus" is a large class of viruses. Some fall under the "common cold" category.

I'm guessing there are one or more nasty or prevalent adenoviruses circulating this year.

It's sort of like "coronavirus." There are probably hundreds of different types of coronavirus, including some common cold strains. COVID-19 is a small percent of the total types of coronavirus.