top | item 23127635

(no title)

flaviojuvenal | 5 years ago

ok, but is there any other kind of pneumonia that can spread to the whole humanity in months? sincere question

discuss

order

lettergram|5 years ago

Influenza B. It’s been spreading for decades. That being said we mostly have a partial immunity to it.

I had influenza B in early January and had pneumonia. 105 fever for a week, difficult to breath, the whole thing.

During that time I actually looked up and found out about COVID-19. I tested positive for influenza B, but the information actually let my family prepare by stocking up in January. Lucky in a sense.

SpicyLemonZest|5 years ago

Yes. Hundreds of millions of people get pneumonia every year. (But most causes of pneumonia have effective treatments or vaccines, while covid-19 does not.)