Chris Sullivan is a traffic reporter for KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM. He cares deeply about the amount of time you spend sitting in Seattle traffic. Email Chris at csullivan@kiroradio.com
This is a chokepoint, for real. People are literally choking from all the coughing and sneezing, but it’s not COVID-19 or the flu. It’s the crud . The crud started making the rounds in the KIRO Newsradio newsroom the second week of January.
I picked it up around January 14. Sore throat. Medium cough. Fatigue. The typical cold kinda stuff. Over-the-counter meds worked for a while. I took a day off from work and slept for 17 hours. I thought I had kicked it. Three weeks later, and I still have one of the deepest and driest coughs of my life. It hit my family, too.This cold and a deep cough lasted until March, and there is still coughing, sniffling, and sore throats from others in the newsroom.“It’s going around,” the doctor said. But it’s not COVID-19. Not the flu. I tested. Not pneumonia, though the doctor asked if I wanted a chest X-ray. When I asked how long this deep cough could last, he said maybe a few more weeks.“I’ve been hearing a lot about this everlasting crud, but what people call the crud is usually not a specific illness,” he said. “It’s a group of common respiratory viruses.” There are more than 200 common cold viruses out there. They usually last a week to 10 days, but Tayyar said they irritate the linings of our noses, our throats, and our lungs. “I think what people are really feeling from that lasting effect is not the virus by itself, the virus and viral infection lasts only for a week, but the inflammation in the airways is what lasts much longer,” he said.“You finish one virus, and then you get another virus on top, so it feels kind of everlasting,” Tayyar said. Two months. That’s how long the crud can last, and the common cold viruses might stick around until April or May this year.“You wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your face, and if you’re sick, stay home,” Tayyar said. I asked Tayyar when you should start worrying that it might be something else, like flu, COVID-19, or pneumonia. “People should seek medical attention if they take on a higher fever, have shortness of breath or chest pains, or when they get worse after getting better,” he said.Tayyar said the cold doesn’t appear to be any worse than normal this year. It’s just annoying and will go away with time. And let me apologize to everyone in the newsroom. I had this for seven weeks and only took one day off. I likely made everyone else sick.Many are suffering from the crud, not COVID-19 or flu. Discover insights and experiences as we navigate this health issue together. Curley: Ferguson wants to feed every student in Washington, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch Governor Ferguson aims to feed all students in WA, but is free lunch truly free? Explore the implications and challenges. ‘This is very performative’: Jake and Spike debate if former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz left WA over ‘millionaire tax’ ‘I’m not going to accept it’: Pierce County sheriff warns against bill allowing state to remove sheriffs KIRO host John Curley had Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank on to discuss Senate Bill 5974, a bill that allows the state to remove elected sheriffs. Harger: WA just voted to put permanent supportive housing in every neighborhood in the state. Your city has no say ‘Native Land Pod’ co-host ‘stunned’ to see Wilson admin ‘mired in nonsense’ after civil rights director placed on leaveChrystal Ortega's tireless dedication recently earned her the WSECU Community Champions Award and a $1,000 grant to further the mission.When Shawn Tibbitts opened Tibbitts FernHill, he was just trying to survive. The small Tacoma restaurant has since earned culinary awards and praise.Wilcox Family Farms is continuing its cherished holiday tradition of giving back by donating nearly one million eggs to food banks across the South Sound region this season.Matthew Ballantyne has transformed that early awareness into action, embodying the organization's mission:"No Kid Sleeps On The Floor In Our Town."Discover Kitsap County’s creative soul: Where Nordic charm meets gothic gardens and ancient traditions thrive Kitsap County is full of wonderfully weird, authentically artsy, and unexpectedly magical corners that make visitors become locals and locals never want to leave.
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