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I live in Canada and I just went through a sickness that was suspiciously covid like in symptoms, lasting about 7 days.
My wife and I had a very covid-like virus last month too. It took us about 6 weeks to recover, although we're still suffering from it a bit. And something that isn't the seasonal flu has been hitting schools in our area really hard recently.
I assumed it was HMNV (Human Metaneumovirus). But now I'm questioning that.
My kid just got it last week, then 2 days later my other kid got it, the a day later my wife... i think i had it as well the day after her but it wasnt very serious unlike the others, just really tired. I wish you could find out that type of information from the test. We were just told test came back positive for covid. It would be interesting to see this info on what variant.
No mention of whether current OTC tests work for it.
No reason it shouldn't. The tests don't rely on the spike protein being a specific shape (the vaccines do).