There have been deaths in the Cynon valley due to it as well.
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We live on the edge of Cathays. Given the number of asian students Cardiff Uni encourage ( overseas students pay higher fees after all ), it's not impossible for it to have been present in the UK before Christmas.
It's also not impossible that what we are seeing right now could well be a mutation.
Most of those students are probably Malaysian, and even if they are from China it's very unlikely they had recently been back in their home country. Isn't the end of uni term something like mid December? I can't see anyone being in China at the time of the virus and then coming to Cardiff for the sake of a short time before the Christmas break.
I can see you really really want to believe your wife was one of the first to have coronavirus rather than one of the many common viruses that people get at that time of year, every year, so ok.
To help you out, I just checked and Cardiff does have lots of students from China (it's changed since I was working there, clearly), but I still can't see many of them having gone to China and back in December
The think it’s tu e symptoms aren’t as much like flu it’s more like pneumonia. I think most people would just have had normal flu or a cold.
I was in China in December and had the worst cold of my life when I got back but the fact I didn’t pass it onto anyone at work or anyone in my family makes me sure it wasn’t it. I went to the states the day after I got back from China too so I’d probably have been public enemy number 1 if I did actually have it :hehe:
If you had it I think you’d be aware of it because a lot of people you interacted with would have had it too.
I can simplify This. Chances of Picking up Corona Virus from Chinese Students in Cardiff During December-Working on the Probability they had Gone home and back again (loads of them don't go back during term time) And were returning to an infected area-Slim Chance
Chances of Having a heavy Cold during December in the UK-Good Chance.
I live about a mile and a half from a concentration of Chinese students-There are lots on Maindy Rd and Colum Rd, i had a cold in December-Just saying..
Tight chest, unable to breath - check.
Temperature and bad sweats overnight - check.
Nasty cough that didn't go away quickly - check.
Chronic fatigue - check.
Given her compromised immune system, a bit more than a cold - Just saying. GP has also said it's a possibility she had it back then given the increased GP knowledge of coronavirus now.
End of the day, given she'll not be tested, we'll never know.
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?