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I contracted the metapneumovirus in the late fall of 2020. And it was nasty. Couldn't sleep for a week because of the coughing and it took me ten weeks to shake the damn thing.

They won't give you a narcotic cough medicine for this ailment, which would allow you to sleep, because fluid would then get trapped in your lungs, resulting in pneumonia. I also lost all hearing in one ear, a side effect in about one-third of all cases. Fortunately, my hearing eventually returned.

My doctor told me one of his other patients who had this bug had to be intubated and almost died. It's called META for a reason.

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