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After I came down with a dry cough, headache, kidney stone-like chest pain and a sore throat that began Sept. 30, I decided to stay home from work.

My wife, Tiffany, had similar more intense symptoms, and our 12-year-old boy, Jim, began an on-again, off-again relationship with stomachaches and headaches.

I decided to go get tested. Sure enough, I received a positive result for COVID-19 on Oct. 5.

Tiffany had gone in for a test on Sept. 30, but it was the end of the day, so after calling back to the doctor’s office, I was scheduled for a test on Oct. 1. Her results came...