Because we do have people that float in and out of the lab, where I do go in, from other countries.
I had to check in the first week in Nov… I was sick the middle of the 3rd week Nov and did not get better till the 2nd week of Dec… I went to get tested today to see if I had it… as I know there are a few studies going on for antibody testing.
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Do you fit them with those ultra-cute Blue Booties (for maximal sanitary anti-microbial coverage) ? 
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Pretty sure that I had it a few weeks ago. Fever of over 100 for 10+days, severe fatigue, loss of sense of taste and smell and the absolute WORST headache imaginable( and I live with cluster headaches/migraines!)
I never got a dry cough until after the fever broke, but it went away after a day or two. No tightness of the chest, no difficulties breathing. I did go to the local walk-in clinic where I was tested for influenza B, which was negative. There weren’t any COVID19 tests available in our region of northern California(just started testing locally this last week and of the 10,000 testing kits requested the lab received 500) so until antibody testing is available, I won’t know for sure.
As to the vaccine? I’m getting one, simply because of the people in my life that are important to me that cannot get one due to their health reasons. It would kill me if I learned that I was the reason someone I loved died from something I gave them.
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The People (might) be wise to refrain from pre-Armaggedon barings of their “pre-existing conditions”:
Source: https://i.redd.it/8euowbeepxc01.jpg
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Definitely sounds like COVID-19 - Good thing you didn’t get pneumonia! How long until you got your sense of smell/taste back? My daughter’s friend went for a long time after without smell/taste…
Daughter was also sick for some days - I assume it was COVID-19 but it was very mild for her - when there are anti-body tests available here, I guess we’ll get tested.
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Must be a bugger for “taste conscious” vapers ? Easy to have such cause one to vape hotter/heavier.
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It started to come back once the fever broke. Food started to vaugely resemble the taste of food and progressively got better maybe over the following week.
Crappy thing about it is that Doritos still don’t taste like Doritos. I need my stress snack back, dammit! 
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I scorched my wick pretty good and didn’t notice until I was bored and decided to rebuild. The coil gore was, shall we say, extreme?
Yes, I think we shall. 
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One confounder of note is that many Rhinoviruses and Influenzas (also) cause very similar phenomena.
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assuming a vaccine is possible. we don’t know yet.
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(South China Morning Post, April 14, 2020):
“The coronavirus mutation that threatens the race to develop vaccine”
Don’t know if true or not, but… some fellow vaper caught COVID19. He already had his lungs compromised and it is one of the reasons he vapes, once in hospital his doctor came up and gave immediate order to send him to intensive care, after two days nothing happens, the doctor decides to take him off and see what happens… nothing, the outcome is: it’s something strange, like a barrier that stops the virus from getting into the lungs (Doctor’s words). to make a long story short, he’s now at home recovered and well.
He said it’s probably the PG that formed a barrier and they will go deeper into this… (do you believe that? I don’t)
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Nope. Somebody (I don’t recall their ELR screen-name) posted a rather good treatment regarding that:
See the section entitled, “Propylene glycol as a disinfectant” starting at the bottom of the 3rd page.
The air cleansing experiments conducted in the 1940’s only involved bacteria and the influenza virus, there is no way without experimental evidence to infer if this could happen with SARSCoV-2 and in the conditions of environmental e-cigarette aerosol.
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We still don’t know a lot about the virus. Why do some healthy, young people die who have no preconditions and other old people in high risk categories survive? Why do so many people walk around being infected and display no symptoms at all?
I’ll be the last one to suggest that certain things shouldn’t be investigated, I’m definitely not a medical specialist but I have little hope for PG being the magic barrier that stops the virus. Your friend’s likely just one of the lucky people (and the biggest group of people) who just got mild symptoms from the infection. It’s only a small percentage of people that end up in hospital or die so this is not a virus that will wipe out the human population.
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