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About half of this past winter my family and I have had various overlapping viruses. We just had three week long respiratory virus, and now have a fever. This is probably because we're in two different elementary schools and a daycare, but I'm so incredibly tired of getting a new thing just as we're starting to get over the previous thing, and then lasting for weeks at a time.
My whole family caught some cough that's lasted months. One day had me bedridden because I'd coughed hard enough to strain a muscle. RSV, maybe? Covid testing negative and antibiotics did nothing. Not very contagious, but a disease that sticks around for 8 weeks (or more? I'm on the mend but not completely better...) can afford to take a couple of weeks to spread.
Just a virulent bronchitis, I think. I and everyone I know got it, and the cough persists for weeks if not months.
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