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by paulmd 2284 days ago
There's some suspicion that there are two strains of COVID and one is nastier than the other.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scientists-identified-strains-...

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr...

And, see my other post, but some researchers suspect that COVID was circulating in Washington (likely elsewhere as well) since about mid-january, so very possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551360

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Interesting. I suppose it's possible. Whatever went around was incredibly contagious compared to the usual flu. Almost the entire office, including myself, came down with it over the course of 1-2 weeks.

I'd like to think you're right. It'd be nice to know that I and the people I'm in regular contact with already have some immunity.