I'm 36, in good shape, was lucky, and one week in I'm feeling stronger every day.
It wasquite unlike any other "flu" I've had.
It would be good to know if the organ damage detailed in the article also affects those that recover without significant symptoms.
I fear it does, because I have lost and not regained my sense of smell.
But as you say, a weird "flu".
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/p-pph090816....
Quick question: is 'viral load' a thing ? I have read in several places that repeated contact with infected people is an important factor to determine disease severity.
Like many have reported my sense of smell is completely gone. That happened after about two days.
About 5-6 days in now I still feel tired and probably have a light fever although I haven't bothered to measure. I'd say I've been getting steadily better but slowly.
> Last month, Sherry Chou, a neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, began to organize a worldwide consortium that now includes 50 centers to draw neurological data from care patients already receive. The early goals are simple: Identify the prevalence of neurologic complications in hospitalized patients and document how they fare. Longer term, Chou and her colleagues hope to gather scans, lab tests, and other data to better understand the virus’ impact on the nervous system, including the brain.
> Chou speculates about a possible invasion route: through the nose, then upward and through the olfactory bulb—explaining reports of a loss of smell—which connects to the brain. “It’s a nice sounding theory,” she says. “We really have to go and prove that.”