I'll offer this....check you're thermometers to make sure they're working.
Also my Pharmacist said the closest cough medicine to have on hand to a prescription is “Delsym”.
Regarding a cough-there have been studies showing that honey is just as effective as some cough medicines and it helps a person sleep.
Honey lasts for ever. In addition, it’s good to use as a replacement for sugar in your rehydration drinks.
Honey helps to heal your digestive system, and can be used on wounds to prevent infection.
For a sore throat we make a citrus tea with cinnamon, cloves, lemon or orange juice, and honey added to the tea.
A person can set up a bee hive and get their own honey —no grocery needed. However, since it lasts forever, you could just stock up on a lot. We get ours from the local farmer’s market-raw honey is what we get.
Honey is one thing we don’t have as much of as I’d like, but likely we have more than enough for this emergency.
The other thing I haven’t solved for long term, is lard and fats. I’d like to have the old time cans that lasted. So I do have some home made lard and Ghee that I store in the frig.
I’m just hoping that we don’t have any reason to get near a hospital for at least 2 months.