It's possible I had it earlier in the year. My wife's a doctor and saw several patients who'd recently traveled, got sick but tested negative for the flu. Then their symptoms swept through her clinic and she and many of her colleagues had GI issues, hacking coughs, fatigue. Some had fevers, some didn't. This was before C19 was known to be in the US. We've subsequently learned that of course it was already here then.
When I got sick, I never had the hacking cough. I had chest pain and tightness, extreme body aches and fatigue, a fever that came and went, and nothing tasted right. I was sick for almost two weeks. Shortly thereafter, I started to enter a Crohn's flare. My GI's opinion was that I'd just had a virus (which virus, who knows) and the immune response was going a little nuts. Two rounds of antibiotics normalized my pouch.
My GI and rheumatologist currently say, on the basis of data that's being collected globally about C19 patients with the diseases they treat, that despite our conditions and, for some of us, immunosuppressive drugs, our risks are similar to everyone else's. The patients of theirs they're most concerned about are the ones with the most talked about risk factors, like advanced age or obesity, diabetes, kidney or heart or lung disease, hypertension.
As for missing intestines, I feel quite grateful I'm only down a colon! If you had an organ transplant for which you had to take a harsh daily regimen of anti-rejection drugs in order to stay alive, you're obviously in a high-risk group. A colectomy involves none of that.