# Dopers who speculate they have (have already had) COVID-19

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204 "2020-03-24T22:37:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-who-speculate-they-have-have-already-had-covid-19/850204/42 "2020-04-01T02:14:27Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> At the beginning of this [article](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/11/1926380/-My-Bout-with-COVID-19?utm_campaign=trending)is a chart that compares the symptoms of cold, flu, and COVID.

Several people in this thread have been describing symptoms that sound, to my nonexpert ears, like a much closer fit to something else, like flu, than to COVID-19. So what makes you guys think you have _The_ Virus?

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