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I had those symptoms in mid-late December too (so did my mate). Also lost my sense of taste for a couple of weeks.
I work with vulnerable elderly people. If it was indeed Coronavirus, I would have been showing no symptoms for the incubation period when I was still visiting them in their homes and would have surely passed it on to a large percentage of my clients (all of whom have underlying conditions), right?
Unless... only your wife had Coronavirus and other people with the exact same symptoms in December didn't.
I think the context of the conversation is important. If I was a GP and someone was asking me, could I have had it, was it covid, what do you think, I'd be tempted to give the easy answer of "yes it's possible", which is at least the truth. If the GP said it unprompted, then that's different.
Wife said it was unprompted. It just didn't seem right for it to be a viral flu, she's had that before and it was a lot different in nature and effect.
It may not have been covid-19, without a test we'll never know. It wouldn't at all surprise me for it to have been present in UK and elsewhere before Christmas; highly infectious, low payload. Possible mutation? Who knows?
I'm the caretaker of a Cardiff apartment block and there were quite a few Chinese students there in December. Remember them telling me their parents were coming over from China for a visit in early December then they would be all returning to China for the Christmas holidays.