It started with a pain in her ribs.
On the morning of Monday, Dec. 7, Katie, 33, got up, worked out and went to work. But later in the day, when she sat down to do some sewing, she felt the pain on her right side, just beneath her sternum. After she went to bed, the pain got progressively worse.
She thought she might have dislocated a rib. She did not think she had COVID-19.
"I didn’t have any other symptoms; I could still taste and smell," Katie, who asked to be identified just by her first name, said via Zoom in early April. "I didn’t have a fever, I wasn’t coughing. But what I did still have was that rib pain. And because the pain was so severe by this point, it actually made it difficult for me to take a deep breath. So based on that lone symptom, I decided that I should go get tested."