Granted I live in Texas, the land of vax hypocrites, but even those I know who got vaxxed first time around and boosters aren't getting them now. I know a handful of people who all got Covid in the last week or two and it presented as no more than a runny nose for them. Seems like the pharma companies are starting to likely turn down manufacturing volume.
Glad there wasn't much for them. Covid is booming here in the Midwest. In the last 3 weeks, I know several with just a runny nose, two who were wiped out for a couple of weeks but recovered, and one who died of Covid after being intubated and on a ventilator (sister-in-law's father-in-law who was an anti-vaxxer).
Were I you I would at least antigen test. I did just that when the GM of my volunteer organization said that one or more of our staff tested positive and were in the facility when I was and I figured at least a fair chance I was sharing space with them at some point. From the quote above I would surmise you were "exposed." You might be asymptomatic but capable of spreading the germ.
I hope you stay feeling fine. I had so hoped that we'd get one silver lining from Covid: that people who are knowingly sick in a pandemic would just stay home and take care of themselves instead of spreading it to the world. Even that one simple idea was far too much to expect. 🙁
Best of luck. It doesn't sound highly likely to have spread to you from that brief description. He would have had to spread it to her unknowingly several days before, who would have had to spread it to you unknowingly. That is, unless they were obviously showing symptoms. Yes, it can spread before symptoms but that is not extremely common and you'd thus need two uncommon things to happen sequentially to have gotten it.
I'm going to test this afternoon. My wife who teaches has some test kits at the class and she's bringing one home for me to use.
Yea if I develop any symptoms I'm def. not going in. I'm testing this afternoon when my wife brings home a test kit.
The silver lining for me is just that I haven't been sick since Nov. 2019. I figure going forward I will be somewhat more careful to not get infected with whatever. I used to wash hands when I got home (when I remembered), but wasn't as aware as I am now about air borne pathogens.
When my wife got it last March, it took 5 days before I tested positive, and I live with her. Symptoms had just started. I'd wait until at least Saturday to test again if no symptoms.
IIRC, your antibodies are gonna be low but your T-cells remember and can kick in... but that takes a while. Meaning, I think, that you don't have a lot of protection against being infected, but you do have some protection against severity. Anybody who has a more nuanced understanding, chime in...
Not that I got mine from the feds, but I have a cold with symptoms eerily similar to my COVID experience. 3/3 on negative tests though. Was worried it would torpedo an upcoming trip.
Weird similar thing happened to me summer of 2022. Came back from a trip to florida, had dinners with many family and friends, was unmasked the whole time including planes. Got home an 2 days later had a scorching sore throat, wheezing, high fever aches and pain, the whole shebang. 6 negative tests. Stayed home for a week or so just in case. I mean, what else could I have caught? If covid was so easy to catch you would think I would catch that before any other random virus.
When I had COVID for reals, the rapid test lit up like a Christmas tree. It was no question, lol. I know the tests say to wait 15 minutes, but in that instance mine showed positive in maybe 10 seconds 😂
