A man who had a rare case of ‘flurona’ describes feeling like he had razor blades in his throat and ‘wild’ night sweats which cleared after 48 hours

A man who had a rare case of ‘flurona’ describes feeling like he had razor blades in his throat and ‘wild’ night sweats which cleared after 48 hours

When Jamie Grayson first started to feel sick in mid-December, he didn't think much of it. "It felt like I had like a sore throat," the told Insider. "Like I'd just been yelling at bars." But as his symptoms progressed over the course of a few days, he started to wonder if this was more than just a case of laryngitis. He had just been visiting friends in New York City, "where it's like a hotbed of Omicron right now," he said. "As I started to develop a cough, I was like, 'mmm, something's wrong.'" Grayson started to wonder if he might've picked up COVID-19, and went to a clinic to get tested. "I changed my flight back home, because I wanted to make sure I got a negative test before I got on the plane," Grayson, who lives in Denver, said. "It just felt responsible." Though he is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus (with Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine) Grayson hasn't had a booster shot yet, and he didn't get a this year, either. At the clinic, based on his symptoms and vaccination status, clinicians tested him for both the flu and the coronavirus. To his surprise, both tests