I am sure that there are likely millions of us who have or had the Civid-19 virus and either didn't know it or thought it was the flu. 24 of us went to Idaho for a week long snowmobile outing. About 8 of us flew (mostly from MN, one from Fla.), and the rest drove. We stayed in two large houses, but ate communally. One by one we started getting sick, starting mostly with the guys who had flown. The first guy was down with what was clearly a 24 hour stomach flu, but the others were a knock you on your ass week long version.
I woke up early on the morning that I had to drive home solo, and was feeling like crap. Low grade fever, severe body aches everywhere,
upper respiratory congestion, cough. I was in a motel and in bed by 5:30 each day. My drive home started on Feb. 2nd when the virus was already here, but before the national awareness.
Only two of the guys from the first house came away with a light dose, and the second house mostly got theirs after they got back home.
I was told by the clinic that I called that there were two different flus going around, but I never did go in to see anyone. It was almost 3 weeks before feeling somewhat normal again.
I am not going to stand in line to be tested, but in a few months when the antibody test is more available, perhaps everyone should be tested to see just how widespread this was, and how much this will protect us from the second wave.