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Collected Item: “COVID19”

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COVID19

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I just wanted to leave my reflection on COVID-19. I personally didn’t have any one in my family become ill from this in fact no one has gotten it besides me. I found out I had it in the middle of February. This was before COVID really became a problem or before people were getting it in the US. I was tested for flu, strep throat, and pneumonia and they all came back negative. The only symptoms I had in the beginning were muscle pains and a fever of around 100-101. After a few days I then began to have a sore throat and a day later is when I began coughing and I became hoarse. But I was already feeling so much better at this point. I never had any trouble breathing, runny or stuffy nose, vomiting, or very high fever that a lot of people mentioned they had when they had COVID. I was lucky mine didn’t get bad and I am even mire lucky none of my family contracted it from me, or even any of them at all.

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Jordan

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2019-02-12
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