Younger son (the firefighter) tested positive Sunday (his entire shift has it at the FD). He has a low grade fever and feels like crap but is staying up and moving around his house and outside which is good for the lungs, I understand.
The wife's sister and her husband has it along with six of their kids and grands and nephew. The husband, son and nephew all work at the same place and it is rampant there so I figure one of the three was the carrier during Christmas. My b-i-l is struggling because he already had an auto-immune issue that had him borderline having leukemia and his white blood count is basically zero. He went to the Mayo clinic in Jacksonville today and they tried an experimental IV antibiotic and something else on him so now it's a wait and see.
My wife was in proximity to our son last Thursday but not up close, so they told us to watch closely for symptoms and stay away from folks for ten days.
We are taking vitamins and such and have Ivermectin on hand. I'll use that stuff in a heartbeat at the first sign of a symptom. A friend took the Ivermec when he had it swears it turned his sickness around in 48 hours. Studies are showing that the stuff works. I also read a study this week that listed several antihistamines (one was regular old Benadryl) that made big improvements in symptom relief.
I personally think the wife had it last February. Since her chemo ten years ago she has bouts of chronic bronchitis a couple times per year, usually during peak allergy seasons. Last February she spent two weeks coughing with on/off chills and was in the bed sick. Doc prescribed the stuff they always do for the bronchitis but she said it was different because her lungs burned and ached and felt different than the normal bronchitis.
The second week that she was sick and coughing, I also started with a cough but only had a mild fever for a day or so. My immune system has always been pretty stout and I rarely get sick....and when I do it usually doesn't hit me as hard as it does the rest of the family.
In March and April when the main symptom lists started coming out we both said that was probably what we had in February. Now they say you can get it again even if you've already had it.