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You rarely leave your house. When you do, you wear a mask and slather your hands in sanitizer. And yet, there it is — a tickle in your throat. You’re running a fever. Your COVID-19 test results come back: “not detected.” So what did you catch?
It’s not likely to be the flu, given that influenza strains have barely been seen anywhere in the United States this season.
