[y-c-o-m-b]

My child and mother both got super sick like this in March 2019 also, so naturally my wife and mother both think it was early covid. What makes me doubt this is the fact that when Italy and NYC got hit in 2020, there was a HUGE jump in deaths. They couldn't keep up with the bodies. If this thing was circulating earlier than 2020, we surely would've seen the Italy/NYC pattern very quickly. I think the 2019 flu virus or RSV strains were perhaps a very harsh one and that's what people are mistakenly believing was "early covid".

[g-b-r]

To my recollection Italy had an unusually high amount of strong pneumonia at the end 2019, apparently not covid.

The deaths sure spiked later though.

I wonder if it was an earlier variant of Covid, but I guess they would have detected that.

[halfnormalform]

Perhaps the virus evolved to be more deadly after the initial wave of “flu”?