How many people do you know who have had CoronaVirus?

[Ferrari355]

A couple of coworkers

 

[mike8675309]

three people I know (not family) have tested positive. One is under 30, one is over 60, and another is over 40. 2 guys, one female (over 60) The under 30 and over 60 are in excellent physical shape prior to the infection with no issues with blood pressure, heart disease, any health problems.

The under 30 got it from a friend after attending a late night party at a bar. He recovered with no lingering symptoms
The Over 40 guy is currently dealing with the infection, no data yet available. HE reports feeling weak but not as bad as a bad flu. He caught it from an electrition who came to repair something in his home.
The over 60 woman caught it when in the hospital for a broken leg after a car ran into her in New York. She said it felt like a mild cold, but lingering symptoms have caused her eye site to degrade as well as feeling like something is wrong in her mind. She doesn't feel the same.

60 Minutes Austraila recently did an episode on those with long-term effects of Covid-19. With the current belief that the infection can create some dramatic impact on the brain in some people.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Update. I said this another threads...

I lost a cousin to covid back in October the day after I had an uncle who passed from heart complications. They swabbed him for covid but I don't know which test, so it may have been related, but probably not.

Two of my cousins in California got it and recovered.

Both of my wife's parents, an uncle of hers, and another aunt were infected. Three of them are fighting it now and my mother-in-law is doing better but still having coughs and slight fever in the mornings.

About 40 people in my church now have it. Two of them are in the ICU and on ventilators. It likely spread from one of them to the other church members. There's been a big delay in it reaching this community. I'm trying to stay indoors as much as I can and working to make my alcohol rations last.

 

[BoomerD]

Personally? None...thankfully.

 

[Pohemi]

Known several infected, including friends of friends or family of friends...a few extended family members of mine as well. Family all recovered.

Mother's best friend since grade school died two weeks back, and her friend's sister had died two weeks prior to that (both of covid, both got it at a surprise birthday party). Uncle's close friend died about a week and a half ago.

Yay, Wisconsin. 🙄

 

[MrSquished]

Add my good friends uncle to my list. He got it at a birthday party for a child relative. He's dead.

 

[WelshBloke]

My friend and colleague died from it the other day. She was 47 with no real medical history.

 

[Ajay]

Six. One died early on in the epidemic - she was undergoing chemo and pretty much had no immune system. The four recovered with very mild symptoms. One has moderate symptoms right now.

 

[Muadib]

Woman I used to play poker with was killed by it. Wife's aunt had it, but survived it.

 

[pcgeek11]

Two and one was a short recovery and the other was in ICU for ~ 50 days, but has since recovered fully.

 

[Torn Mind]

Yours truly got it.

It's effect on me is rather useful in understanding how this thing works. I apparently do not perceive anything in the upper respiratory tract during active infection; that is NOT to say it was undamaged as I got a couple nosebleeds rather easily. Anything from the collarbone/first rib up didn't really suffer badly.

During active infection, I now consider symptoms as "suppressed from perception" by the virus itself, not asymptomatic. I reported it as such at that time, but that's the virus inflicting its sensory suppression. My teeth were not in good shape and I feeling some real misery from them on Jan 30.

But from the start of infection and for a while afterwards, I really stopped feeling aches in my gums and muscles.

During active infection, the primary symptoms was fatigue and some brain "fog".

Then I remember a "transition day". It's as if the weight was mostly lifted from my body but the painkillers from the infection were still there. So I had only a minor inclination to cough but I had surge in energy for that one day. But, the virus's symptom supressor effect would fade after that day and I would be left with a cough for a while but test negative all the time, and the misery of my poor dental neglect and tight muscles would return in full eventually. Along with COVID long hauling. My chest felt good but it now has regressed to being a tad uncomfortable. My mind is clear when not sleep deprived.

So I avoided the worst in my confirmed case.

And I suspect I got in Nov 2019. The active infection phase felt extraordinarily similar(heavy fatigue and a couple trips up the stairs was brutal) and I was physically exhibiting what I know now as long COVID for approximately 3 months. I was severely knocked down by fatigue for TWO WHOLE WEEKS.

So it is likely I got original COVID and natural immunity, and then got the alpha variant in my confirmed case. The natural immunity probably saved a hospital trip. Because my confirmed case never scared me but it was perceivable enough that if it was a couple degrees worse...I'd have been scared.