CORONA Do you know or suspect you or people you know first hand were infected and when?

[ShadowMan]

Just wondering how many folks here caught "something" during the time frame from October 2019 through to today and how many know or think it might have been Covid, H1N1 or Influenza B. All three of these were running around at the same time.

Both my wife and I caught something after she returned from visiting our daughter and grandkids in early January, It was a nasty respiratory bug of some sort and I suspect it might have been WuFlu. I have a friend I just found out has just come out of an induced coma for the last 6-7 weeks due to Covid-19. There's so much garbage and misinformation running around not to mention the sensationalism by the media it's difficult to know what to think or believe. So I was wondering what first hand information folks here on the forums know about.

 

[Dreamer]

My whole family was terribly sick between Christmas and New Years, high fevers, digestive distress, extreme fatigue, etc. Baby ended up with pneumonia, we caught it late January when it was on the mend.
We were convinced it was probably COVID, he tested negative for the flus and RSV, and it seemed to fit the symptoms as well as happening in the right timeframe after interacting with a very international crowd.

Whole family got COVID antibody testing done a week or two ago. We were all negative.

 

[NCGirl]

My husband was in WuHan in mid December. In January I had a several weeks long sickness. I coughed, horrible coughing, for 3-4 weeks. Several folks who had been in my home and my hairdresser who I saw right after he returned also had the similar sickness. Husband never really got it.

Nothing confirmed.

 

[John Deere Girl]

Twenty-three people from our church were infected. One is in the hospital in critical condition and not expected to survive. Tweny-one of those caught it in April from one sick person. The others tested positive last week.

 

[2dollarbill]

Caught something in mid Feb while serving on jury duty. Prosecutor and another juror coughing all over everybody.
No gastro intestinal issues though, so who knows. It took all of March to shake it. Wife came down with it too, but not as severe.


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[Fairwillows]

Daughter tested positive for influenza B in January. Was very sick. No one else got it in her family. She recovered.

 

[Dozdoats]

Whole family got COVID antibody testing done a week or two ago. We were all negative.

Did you get a PCR test ( for active infection) or an antibody test (to show a past infection)? There are different kinds of test … if you came up negative on a PCR test that means you didn't HAVE an infection, but it wouldn't mean you had not HAD an infection and gotten over it. Maybe ...

 

[Troke]

DD and Hubby got something early in the year. Various kinds of miseries with it plus one unusual. They lost their sense of smell and taste for several days. It was months later that was shown to be a marker for the Chinese Plague.

They are signing up for an antibody test. So we shall see.

 

[raven]

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[moldy]

3 people I work with were all very sick around December. All tested positive for the antibody....they were only 3 out of 90 some tests to come back positive.

 

[mzkitty]

We don't know anybody who has or had it. We got some minor (comparatively) dreck earlier in the year, but it cleared up.

I didn't vote on this poll since none of the answers fit.

 

[colonel holman]

I do temp. check and pulse ox measurement twice per day. No sx. at all.
Had nephew in NYC get it, recovered ok. So far, that’s all.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

One of my cousins, her two small children, husband, and MIL and FIL all tested positive for Covid in April. All were very sick, but not hospitalized. Two friends of my moms, that I know well, tested positive in April. One was a 78 yr. old woman in a nursing/rehab facility, and her daughter who worked there. They were also very sick. The 78 yr. old was hospitalized in critical condition, but is fully recovered.

 

[DazedandConfused]

My wife's ex BIL got it . He has been fighting bone cancer. He said he felt fine. His Cancer doc had him tested while is was in for a treatment the test came back positive. He thinks the test was wrong and just another way for the hospital to make money. Blood money he calls it.

 

[parocan]

I suspect my family had it back in January around the middle of the month. My youngest wasn't
feeling well and was not acting herself so hubby took her into the clinic. They sent her right to hospital
because whatever it was, was effecting her heart rate, with no fever. By the time she got to the hosp
she had a fever and her heart rate was still up. after a few hours the fever came down and everything went back
to normal. they sent her home, saying she had some sort of virus and to keep an eye on her and keep her out of school for the rest of the week. then I got sick, for a few days, then my hubby. also at the same time a friends kid, around the same age ended up in hospital after collapsing at home. he ended up going into septic shock and needed blood transfusions. no idea what caused it.

 

[Laurane]

My son's whole family were really ill in Calgary Alberta end of Oct to right through November.......

They all suffered in different ways and their 15 year old boy still has a deep cough when he exercises - keeping in shape for hockey, he has all his energy back, but still a lot of phlegm and some pain. He was in hospital for 24 hours observation and back again for more meds a week later. Pneumonia of unknown origin.....but the cough hasn't left fully.

His 13 year old sister had headaches and fever and cough, though it never got to same stage as her brother's. Took most of the month to get over it. Both kids spent about 10 days off school, mainly in bed.

Their mother had aches and sweats which could have been a regular 'flu or whatever they all had, but she works at Cross Fit as an instructor and knows the difference between 'flu aches and sweating healthily. She had the least symptoms.

My son first got a sinus headache, then it spread to his eyes and he had 4 sessions with an opthalmologist with drops and testing.....it spread to his lungs and he sweated massively too.....got a deep cough and he stayed away from dairy, which sometimes causes phlegm, but it wasn't that. He never goes to the doc and he went 4 times including a hospital visit in November. He says he has never gone through anything as painful as the sinus and eyes (even serious pericarditis, which is also viral). He said the mucus came out solid and dark and almost crunchy in big chunks......yummmm.

He will go do the immunity testing when it is offered openly, but they are just happy it was over with before the .gov started getting involved and hospitals weren't overcrowded at the beginning.

Not sure what it was, but he is convinced they all had Covid - they go to a lot of Asian restaurants and at that time people were returning from pre-Christmas holidays in China.....so they could get two Christmases.

 

[raven]

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[straightstreet]

Youngest grandson 3 yr old was very sick the week after Christmas. Tested but negative for strep and flu. He had a high fever, non productive cough, issues with catching his breath, and bones hurt so much he couldn't walk without crying. He was at the Dr multiple times over a few weeks. He ended up with a machine at home with medication with treatments three times per day.
DD and oldest grandson were both very sick in January. He tested positive for flu B and she was negative. They both had high fevers and stomach issues. There's lasted about a week.

 

[Dreamer]

Whole family got COVID antibody testing done a week or two ago. We were all negative.

Did you get a PCR test ( for active infection) or an antibody test (to show a past infection)? There are different kinds of test … if you came up negative on a PCR test that means you didn't HAVE an infection, but it wouldn't mean you had not HAD an infection and gotten over it. Maybe ...

Antibody test

 

[Kathy in FL]

My whole family was terribly sick between Christmas and New Years, high fevers, digestive distress, extreme fatigue, etc. Baby ended up with pneumonia, we caught it late January when it was on the mend.
We were convinced it was probably COVID, he tested negative for the flus and RSV, and it seemed to fit the symptoms as well as happening in the right timeframe after interacting with a very international crowd.

Whole family got COVID antibody testing done a week or two ago. We were all negative.

There was some virus going around between thanksgiving and mid Jan. Lots of people I knew were ill over Christmas break.

 

[psychgirl]

My brother in law’s Aunt died of Covid three weeks ago.

Good friend’s Aunt is dying right now.

Classmate of mine, her husband was sick for six weeks, three of our clients at work had it.

Two of my hubs classmates had it, one real bad but they both recovered.

 

[Sacajawea]

I have not had it; nor has anyone else I know and associate with.

 

[mzkitty]

My brother in law’s Aunt died of Covid three weeks ago.

Good friend’s Aunt is dying right now.

Classmate of mine, her husband was sick for six weeks, three of our clients at work had it.

Two of my hubs classmates had it, one real bad but they both recovered.

Wow, well there you go. Because they were around people. More than casually.

 

[naturallysweet]

I catch everything. I had the fall influenza, the spring influenza, and on day 9 of officially tested negative covid-19.

From my experience, officially tested negative covid-19 is absolutely nothing like any flu or cold I've ever had. It's not the flu. Can't be confused with the flu.

 

[Meadowlark]

I know of at least three and all recovered.

 

[Satanta]

Dec 26th early A.M. onset-lasted thru early January. Fl early Jan for a couple of weeks. She tested Negative for Influenze and such.

 

[Baja SS]

Caught something March 2nd. All of the common symptoms of covid. Knocked me flat for about 12 days. I kept my system flooded with vitamin C, Sambacol and Gatorade.

 

[CarolynA]

My cousin works at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Close to 200 workers were positive and very sick. She is OK because she works in another building.

A close friend was sick for 3 months - late December thru March. Her husband was working with Asian students at a university. A lot of the kids had gone back to China around Christmas and New Year. They tested her for Flu A and B in early January. Those were negative but Covid test were not on the radar yet.

 

[gerkom]

I know of a Husband and Wife. One was hospitalized 3 weeks, recovering. One had no symptoms (loss of smell only).

Quite a few other people I have talked to suspect they had it Dec-Feb. Lasting lingering congestion, no fever.

 

[Giblin]

We went to CT in Dec and got something! (Yale, New Haven area) We were sick for 2 months. Nothing worked. It wasn't till we used elderberry and colloidal silver - thanks to Summerthyme that we recovered.

 

[agmfan3]

Zero, we rarely get sick, and I don't know anyone who "might" have had it. A few were out with "flu" at work back in Nov/Dec. But they were not bad sick. Western KY

 

[kenny1659]

DW got sick at the very end of December, was not the flu or bronchitis. A lawyer friend who went to Vegas in early December came down with the same symptoms. He later said that every oriental in Vegas were wearing masks, (this was before it became public knowledge). Took both of them 3 to 4 weeks to get over it. None of the usual treatments worked. Dry hacking cough was the main thing DW had.

 

[ainitfunny]

All I know is , LAST NIGHT I REALIZED I HAD LOST MY SENSE OF TASTE AND SMELL!

Things have been gradually starting to “taste funny”, “different”, for the last ten days to two weeks.
I can’t enjoy coffee or tea because I cant detect the aroma, and was about to throw away an unopened jar of bread and butter pickles from the fridge that I opened and could only discern sour, sweet, and texture, but not FLAVOR! Then I realized I have not been satisfied with the FLAVOR of anything for a while now, nothing has had it’s characteristic FLAVOR or aroma!
Then I noticed I had a fresh box of strawberries in the fridge and took out four humongous ripe ones for a snack and discovered I could not discern ANY STRAWBERRY FLAVOR AT ALL. NO strawberry smell, taste, or enjoyment! I can only detect hot, cold, wet, texture, sweet, bitter, salty, and sour now!

I do not have a cold or any nasal congestion and can breathe through my nose fine but am quickly losing my appetite and even chocolate’s delightful taste is only a memory when I “sneak” a mini hershey treat!

MAYBE what they said about COVID19 making you lose your sense of taste is true? I have stayed in the house for over 3 months but my daughter has brought my groceries, mail, money, and other stuff and I have ordered and received a lot of stuff online.

I have been convinced that it would be IMPOSSIBLE to avoid if not sooner then later, catching the darn disease, BUT ALSO THAT THE DISEASE WAS VERY MUCH “VIRAL DOSE RELATED” In that VERY small, repeated exposures to very small numbers of virus would allow your immune system to easily fight it off and start creating antibodies to prepare for it’s next encounter with it.

I think I need to get tested and I think I might test positive from having gone to the ER in late January or February, and or been exposed later through food, mail, medication refills, or other tiny doses.
If I am, I would not be as hesitant to get my back surgery when “elective surgery” is resumed here.

My only fear has been catching COVID 19 in a nursing home REHAB situation. Right now I have heard that they have discontinued all physical therapy because of the pretty much certainty that the hands on therapists cannot avoid contracting the virus (and passing it to patients) as they have repeated hands on exposure to many high risk elderly patients, and LARGE DOSES of the virus (more than even hospital intensive care nurses would get,) WITHOUT ANY ADEQUATE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT!

Actually this makes me feel reassured that I probably had it and fought it off successfully, so far.
I have started throwing away half my meals now, and expect to begin losing all this excess weight, nothing tastes like it is supposed to and I thing I will be making myself eat just to make hunger go away.

 

[rbt]

My son was at a big archery shot in Las Vegas first week of February 52 country’s there was real sick for about three weeks. Really suspect he had the virus

 

[Deena in GA]

Our two oldest children are in self-isolation now. Son was exposed last week at work (they'd only been back at work for a week and a half) by a friend/coworker. Work sent him for the swab test and despite this being the fourth day since the test, he hasn't been notified of any result. Work said he has to stay home for 14 days. So far he only has a bit of a cough and mild muscle aches, but those could be attributed to the work he's been doing around his house while he's not at work.

Our daughter is only maybe exposed. Her fiance' was exposed to someone who was exposed. Her work is making her work from home, which is what she was already doing during the shutdown. They are supposed to be going back into the office tomorrow, but she will continue at home.

 

[TerriHaute]

The only person we know first hand that came down with COVID is one of DH's Masonic Lodge brothers. He is in his 30's and works for FedEx. He's not a close friend, just an aquaintance and the lodge shut down all activities and meetings pretty early in February, well before he got sick. Other than that, we heard from neighbors that a family down the street, mother, father, and teenage son, came down with it. Mother and Son had a light case, father was pretty sick and in the hospital but not on a vent. We have never met them and don't live close.

 

[ReneeT]

Had a patient admitted in January, sick as a dog - temp ranging from 40C to 40.5C, aching all over, just flat miserable. Tested for flu - negative. He's on unit for 8 days. Couple weeks later, staff members - including me - started calling in, same symtoms, same negative flu test. Mgmt is offering to Covid test all employees; me, I want an antibody test first, before they stick that dang brush up my nose! 15% false negatives is what I last heard on the Covid test.

 

[AlaskaSue]

I’m one who was just ridiculously sick down in Florida, for weeks through January. Saw two doctors, neg test for flu and pneumonia. Cough worse than the worst bronchitis. Three prescriptions; I also took manuka honey daily. Doc kept me on inhaled steroid for a long time. My local doc thinks it may have been cv but no way to know for sure unless they make an antibody test I could take that would be worth the cost.

Not sure, but highly suspicious. And interesting stats showing on the poll.

 

[Maryh]

My daughter was very sick end of Jan. She had a fever, aches and cough and short of breath walking from parking lot to office. The cough lasted quite awhile. She tested negative for flu and then while still sick, had to fly to Australia. She was never tested and is fine now. Before this, the people in her office had been to Asia and they were sick. She caught it from them. Guess we'll never know unless she gets and antibody test.

 

[ainitfunny]

Well, I have EVERY “underlying condition” (except impaired immune system) on their list and I am over 75 but can’t find anywhere that will test me, even if I have a sudden (started 3 Weeks ago) and now almost complete loss of all taste and smell because my suspected bout with and recovery from COVID 19 was back in February and other than the smell and taste thing, I have no other symptoms NOW. (Other than now being “off my feed” a bit, eating only to make hunger go away because I have COMPLETELY LOST ALL THE “PLEASURE” IN EATING!