Comment by feral

So many people, even here, read the article and are like "I knew I had covid that December, I had the weirdest cold".

But actually this should make you suspicious of such anecdotes.

There's just much too many of them for them all to be covid.

So they really count as evidence that people just get weird colds and flus.

And hence that the weird cold you had in November 2019 was just a weird non-covid cold.