I Got COVID-19 As A Young Healthy Person And It Kicked My A–
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The lag in symptoms was surprising
We were surprised that my husband developed symptoms a full five days before I did. The moment he started feeling a bit sick – the day before we got tested – we quarantined him to the second bedroom. He was only to leave that room for true emergencies, and if he did, he had to wear his mask. Otherwise, I dropped off all necessities at his door, texting him, “Your food is outside” only once I’d cleared the area. And I was flooding my system with immunity boosters the moment my husband so much as reported a slight sore throat. I am not a doctor, and not even a doctor could ever confirm why there was such a delay between the onset of my husband’s symptoms and mine, but maybe all our precautions did work for a little bit. Until they didn’t.
