An update on 'Long COVID'

I am going to make an educated guess that "long covid" shares the same patient demographics as fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome.

My wife and I got and recovered from the ChiCom virus in late Feb of this year. We both had a slight change to our taste ....and seemingly identical. Both of us found that dill pickles from a particular BBQ restaurant, which we both liked and ate before this were suddenly far saltier and more garlic tasting, to the point of not wanting to eat them. This lasted for about a month during and after the virus. Other things also seemed way saltier than we are almost certain that they actually were....same recipe, or same commercial food - seemed saltier, for both of us. Now things are pretty much back to normal. Also, my wife was hospitalized a couple of weeks post ChiCom virus recovery with what seemed to be "an infection" elevated temperature, and chills, nausea and unable to keep food down, for over a week at home, then for 12 days in the hospital. Fevers easily controlled with tylenol. 12 days of three kinds of IV antibiotics had zero effects and MANY blood, feces, urine, saliva and lung sample tesing showed ANY virus or bacteria. Finally, a pulmonary doc said, "Could this be inflammation?" and started a steroid. Instant mitigation of all symptoms, released from hospital in a couple of days, now totally fine, although taking a bit of time rebuliding muscle weakness from nearly a month of mostly bed ridden. Inflammation from what? Five docs have no clue. Possible delayed inflammation from the Wuhan virus? Perhaps....but a week later, after feeling pretty normal after clearing the virus? Some say "long COVID", I tend to doubt it, but can't prove it. No indication from any doc why the inflammation. The infectious disease doc is pretty baffled, but has said, "Sometimes our tests can't identiy the cause of an infection". He still is not 100% sure it wasn't some sort of a bacterial thing even though tons of tests said "NO" and huge quantities of antibiotics for 12 days did nothing. I doubt it was bacterial, and all the viral tests were negative, including fungus and lung samples. Not pneumonia. No significant lung involvement. Maybe some after effects of Wuhan bioweapon? Perhaps. Zero proof. But it's over, just tapering down the steroid to be completely past.

#1 And chronic fatigue syndrome.

Addendum to #2. All other foods other than garlic and salty foods seemed entirely normal. But some "garlic mashed potatoes" seemed extremely strongly garliced to us....probably weren't actually, we were somehow hyper sensitized to those two flavors, while the rest was fine. Very odd.

We all had Covid in our house almost exactly one year ago to the day. None of us have been vaccinated. My husband 67, who worked out in the world every single day since Covid began, had the mildest symptoms of all. A couple of evenings he dozed off in front of the TV. He was back to work in two days. He never wore a mask unless he had was forced to the entire time. My son and I had mixed mild symptoms. No fever, but massive amounts of mucus and a dry cough. All of us had mild "night sweat" about the third day. The cough lasted a week or so and I never lost my taste completely but it was weird. Our 9 year old grandson had it along with us and he described the taste issue as "eating your McDonald's hamburger but leaving the wrapper on it." I had horrible dry mouth. Now, every few weeks I wake up with such a dry mouth that it is hard to open my mouth. I also get a weird indescribable taste in my mouth. Then it goes away until the next time. Is that long Covid? If it is I can handle it, but before we criticize others we do have to remember we know nothing about the virus, really. I hadn't though about the man made aspect of this either. Greedy narcissists like Fauci want their names in the history books. If they can screw us over in the process it's a perk.

The Virus WAS Created in a Lab, that is called a BIOWEAPON. Get a clue!