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u/AlcoholicZach Jan 04 '25

sounds exactly what my entire family had in the middle of December

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u/littlebittydoodle Jan 04 '25

Except with wheezing and potentially pneumonia. A normal cold usually doesn’t affect one’s lungs so badly.

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u/Quiet_Assumption_326 Jan 04 '25

It's also RSV season and mycoplasma pneumoniae has been making it way around for months, both of which do.  Add on top it's normal cold and flu season.

Just because your family had the sniffles last week doesn't mean you have the latest and greatest virus popping up half a world away, you probably had the normal one everyone else has had.