It started with a fever.
A day after returning from a northern Iowa pheasant hunting trip with eight lifelong friends in late October, Mark’s temperature spiked. A hunting buddy who’d been sniffling during the weekend woke up feverish earlier that morning, so Cori said their thoughts immediately turned to the possibility of COVID-19.
But Mark also received his flu vaccination that day, she said, and his appetite seemed on par.
“He was still ravenous that night. He was still digging in the fridge at 9 o’clock,” Cori said. “And you know, we didn’t think a lot of it.”