Last week, I got COVID for the very first (detected) time! Although it took a while to realise this was COVID and not the common cold. It started with an overnight runny nose that I attributed to swimming outside the previous and cool morn, a minor temperature shock compared with the previous week in Guadeloupe. And did not spot the unusually high heart rate that night… The next afternoon, I was feeling a bit feverish (with no fever!) and definitely tired, but again attributed the feeling to faster bike rides to and from Paris Dauphine and the after-effect of Caribean jetlag. I then had a very long night and definitely felt okay the morning after (with nightly heart rate back to normal). It is only when my wife starting showing the same symptoms that I suspected more than a common cold. With confirmation from a COVID test two days later. By then I had unfortunately contaminated a few other people, all of whom recovered reasonably fast (phew!). I have since taken back to wear a face mask in any close encounter and warned my students. I wonder if I got it in the plane back or at Dauphine on the opening day. Definitely planning the continuation of my yearly vaccine next November!!!
