2023-10-07 06:14:41
The very closed circle of Covid escapees is shrinking. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta… for three years, the waves of variants had slipped over them. These lucky or super-immune people have seen their loved ones bedridden and their work colleagues lose their sense of taste and smell one following the other without the virus ever touching them. Until… Eris or Pirola, sub-variants of the Omicron family now in the majority in France. If these mutations are a sign that the virus is weakening, we must continue to be wary of these symptoms as well. Because no matter how much we say that it’s like a bad cold or the flu, no one reacts the same. Even when you have no risk factors.
Hugo, 30 years old, can attest to this: “It went through my whole body! Four days of fever, four kilos down, I was stuck on the couch and had no energy. But an ear infection too! It suprised meadmits the nurse. I worked for many months in a Covid cell at the height of the pandemic and did not catch it, I am young, neither overweight, nor in respiratory distress. The Covid knocked me out while around me, people only had runny noses, that upset me a little! I was arrested for seven days and it took me another week to really get back on track. At work, it had become a cluster: seven out of eight of us had it in turn in the team in three weeks.“
“Only my 3-year-old son made it through”
With his three doses of vaccine, Pierre also thought he would never get it. No more barrier gestures, no more masks, no more tests, no more isolation. Covid was ancient history. But actually, no…”The fever started during the night. I had chills, a headache, hot then cold, impossible to sleep. I thought it was the flu and went to the doctor the next day, he was the one who had the reflex to test me, underlines the thirty-year-old. When I got home, I slept from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. in one go. I was bursting! Four days later, my 16 month old daughter got it. She had a fever of 40.5º, she was burning! Then, my wife. Only my 3 year old son got through it. The feeling of fatigue and weakness lasted for a good week followingwards.“
“It was his first childhood illness, 40° fever!”
Already contaminated twice, the first at the very beginning of the crisis when we didn’t really know what it was, then in the spring of 2022 when she was six months pregnant (and vaccinated), Eve, 38, thought she had given with Covid. “My husband goes back and forth between Marseille and Paris every week for work, he was the one who caught it first. Subsequently, our one-year-old baby tested positive. It was his first childhood illness, 40° fever! Then my turn came, I lost three kilos in three days, bedridden, she details. The little one was on antibiotics and didn’t eat for ten days, only bottles of milk. We were shooting with Doliprane but it wasn’t working. After 2 hours, the fever started once more, an ordeal! We remained positive for eight days and everything seemed insurmountable even though we are dynamic people. So, I made an appointment to get my flu vaccine before winter.“
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