There is a new strain of Covid that's spreading in our communities that comes with VERY INTENSE throat pain. It is unbearable.
I had this. Here was the timeline:
-Lost my voice for a couple days (kept up my daily schedule as I assumed I had simply strained my voice)
-Throat started hurting, worse than strep (so stayed home, tested negative for strep, it went away after a few days so returned to life, didn’t suspect COVID and neither did the doc although they said it’s probably a virus)
- Several people who sit near me came down with intense throat pains, all negative for strep. They way they described it sounded far worse than mine. One checked for COVID and tested positive
-Two weeks later I started having mild to moderate chest pain, got it checked out (including a stint at the ER) and it appears I developed a form of post-COVID GERD (hope it doesn’t last too long)