Have you been surprised by a recent death by pneumonia of someone you know? (Poll)

[McCamy Taylor]

8. My 80 plus mother who never gets sick (including never gets flu)

had a cough two weeks ago. She is strong as an ox and got over it but she was surprised by how bad her cough was and how long it lasted. And currently my whole family has a cough from hell. I am one of those who never gets respiratory flu. But I now have walking pneumonia (have never had pneumonia before) and have to use albuterol nebulizer every 2 hours to breathe (even though I do not have asthma). Since none of us is sick enough to be admitted to the hospital (steroids and every 2 hour albuterol nebulizer treatments are keeping us alive), we do not qualify for corona-virus testing. My flu test has been negative twice. That does not prove it is not the flu. But (like a large percentage of people) I never ever cough with flu! I think this is something else.

See my post about why the US for profit health system has a financial incentive not to test for coronavirus.