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‘Super flu’ variant is circulating and raising concern. Here’s what to know about it
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I'd imagine many of us didn't go in, my wife and I both got it and it lasted a little over a week for the worst symptoms. Never got bad enough to warrant going to a dr tho.
It sent me through a dangerously high fever, extreme chills, super high heart rate, extreme fatigue, ungodly amaunt of congestion and coughing. I should've gone to the hospital cause i collapsed on the floor last monday unable to move for 6 hours but I really like not being in debt so I just waited.
That's crazy, glad you're okay, I never got a fever but was extremely congested, headaches constantly and never ending runny nose/cough/sneezing
It's a virus. Literally nothing a doctor can do. The time to see a doctor about a virus is for the vaccine 3 months ago.
I'm not saying everyone that has a cold should go to the doctor, but there are antiviral drugs, and two specifically that are made to combat influenza infections.
Maybe don't speak authoritatively on a subject you're ignorant about.
Its definitely one of those things you're told growing up
For a cold, maybe, but Tamiflu has been a thing for decades. There absolutely is something the doctor can do depending on what virus it is.