I have to wonder if her cough was not an infection type cough but rather type I get when people back away from me - though only during SARS and Covid.
I have cough-variant asthma. It's really embarrassing as it can cause me to cough until I'm sick. An attack will come on from nowhere and be really violent, like Gill's was last night. I only watched up until then so didn't see if she carried on coughing but didn't notice her coughing until her nasty attack started. Mine can be triggered by having a dry throat from talking too much. Which I never do. Obviously
I was visiting friends in London while SARS was around. I was on a full tube carriage when I had an attack. It cleared completely at the next stop
Cough-variant attacks can be so violent they cause me tremendous pain across my collar bones, down my arms and into my fingers. When I finally caught Covid last year (after years of shielding but needing a hospital appointment - first time out
), I was given anti-virals but told to not use purple inhaler for 10 days. My Covid symptoms were gone within 2 days but my asthma had never been as bad. I was diagnosed with acute radiculopathy with the shocking pain I had up my neck and into the top of my head after these attacks.
To add insult to injury I ended up having rebound Covid a week later!