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Post by fiddlesticks on Mar 27, 2021 6:44:58 GMT
I am fairly convinced I had it in February of 2020. I was super sick, in bed for a week with a fever/chills. Lost ability to taste. Got tested for strep and flu and was negative. I was having a horrible time breathing and got a breathing treatment. My DH and DD got sick after me but weren't as severe.
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Post by gar on Mar 27, 2021 8:16:00 GMT
No, I haven't had it. I know 4 people who have had it - one couple late 20s and another couple mid 40s.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 8:26:24 GMT
No, no one in my household has had it or anyone that close to me. I know of people that have had it and a couple of people that have died of it but no one I come into contact with.
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Post by J u l e e on Mar 27, 2021 12:25:57 GMT
No, fairly confident.
I know several people who had it. I don’t know anyone who has died or lost their job. I think that’s part of why so many people I know didn’t take it seriously. I is so much of no big deal to most people I know.
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Post by pierkiss on Mar 27, 2021 12:39:11 GMT
I did not get it. I have no idea how I managed to not get it, considering there was a legit outbreak at work, and it took down 75% of our staff (and a couple of our clients). We had to close our building for 2 weeks so everyone could quarantine. I should have gotten it. I did the contact tracing for our building. I was definitely within 6 feet of people who had it, for extended periods of time. There were 2 rounds of testing during that time period, and both came back negative. Super grateful I didn’t get it, just still really confused.
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Post by carhoch on Mar 27, 2021 12:53:27 GMT
We did not get it but we took social distancing very seriously , four family members and some friends got it and a couple weeks ago we lost two neighbors in ours street. My husband and I will receive our second COVID shot Monday . It has been a long year but we made it .
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Post by Really Red on Mar 27, 2021 14:01:08 GMT
I selected no I don't think so but I was sicker than a dog Christmas 2019 and had some of the symptoms. Some people think it hit CA before we knew anything about it. Same for me. I was in Europe in December 2019 and came home and had the most debilitating sickness ever. My son had it too and we both said we had never felt like that. I couldn't get up off the couch and I coughed for weeks after. In June 2020 I did an antibody test that was negative, though. So who knows?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 27, 2021 15:01:53 GMT
I’m confident I haven’t had it but I’ve also been mostly staying home and avoiding places that could be crowded, we’ve all been masking up, sanitizing, etc. and I kept my kid home from school this year which I think is a huge part of why we’ve stayed as healthy as we have for the past year.
DH got really sick in early February last year when no one was even talking about Covid here yet, and caught whatever he had from a friend on his bowling team whose wife got sick shortly after coming back from a girl’s trip to the Bahamas. DD had a headache on and off and a 101°-103° fever for close to a week but really no other symptoms at that same time. I thought it was probably a sinus infection due to allergies, but the online doctor said he thought she probably had the flu. At that point it had already been too many days to treat it with anything plus she didn’t really feel or act sick (and yes, I kept her home from school for a whole week). I was really tired for one day, but that could have been due to not sleeping because I was worried about my kid, plus that’s not unusual for me at all. No one here lost smell or taste or had any of the other common symptoms and they both bounced back pretty fast, so I’m reasonably convinced they didn’t really have it.
My BFF had it, her dad had it, the wife of a different friend of DH’s had it. My niece had it and her sister in law had it. We know of a few other people who are relatives of acquaintances that had it. Another niece’s boyfriend’s dad died from it but that’s the only person we know of who actually passed away, but we didn’t personally know him.
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Post by evnimom on Mar 27, 2021 15:26:13 GMT
I voted that we suspected that we did but not sure. We were extremely careful. there's 4 people in our household. Only one of us would go out at a time for shopping: masked, handwashing, wiping down items being brought in, putting other things aside for a period... We felt a ill last July. We were diagnosed with it over tele-health. We weren't tested for the virus but DH and I were tested twice for antibodies. All four tests were negative. DH is convinced he had it; he had the "covid rash" and other symptoms.
I know several people who had it. I believe one person I know died from it.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Mar 27, 2021 15:39:46 GMT
Confident no - I'm a regular blood donor so have been tested for the antibodies every 8 weeks and always negative. I know several people who've had it, luckily all were mild or asymptomatic cases.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Mar 27, 2021 16:46:10 GMT
I coughed for weeks after. That was a terrible lingering side effect.
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Post by katlady on Mar 27, 2021 17:18:49 GMT
I voted no-I don't think so. No one in the immediate family has had it, I don't think. I had a cold in February, but it didn't feel like anything unusual. SO hasn't been sick all year.
A friend went to East Asia in late-December. She came back and was super sick for a couple of weeks. She may have had it. I had a cousin who passed away from pneumonia in mid-January. She had gone to Vegas during Christmas/New Year. She got sick when she went home. Doctors did not really know what was wrong with her. We wonder if she had it. One friend got it in November. He still can't smell or taste. And then one friend just got over it. She got it from her husband who is a first responder. She only had mild symptoms for about a week. She just got her smell and taste back.
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Post by birukitty on Mar 27, 2021 17:27:33 GMT
I am confident I didn't get it nor did any members of my immediate family-DH and DS who live with me. We've been very cautious with social distancing and mask wearing. I haven't seen my parents in over a year except from a distance to drop off Christmas gifts. I miss them so much. In my parent's home my parent's and my sister (who live with them) haven't got it either. We also haven't taken any trips and only go shopping or out if it's necessary. It's frustrating and we are so sick of it but I think it's helped to keep us safe.
The only person I know who has gotten it is the brother of a friend who I was friends with in my teen years. I haven't seen her or her brother since we were teens and they live in Tennessee. We live in Maryland.
Oh, I almost forgot-a nurse who works at my doctor's office also got it. I can see why in her case because of her access to patients.
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Post by oaksong on Mar 27, 2021 17:36:46 GMT
I put suspected also. I’m in California, came down with body aches, weird cough, and extreme fatigue for a few weeks in January 2020. Other close friends and family had it too. When they came out with the description of COVID symptoms later, I was pretty sure that’s what I had.
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Post by supersoda on Mar 27, 2021 18:11:12 GMT
Yes, my entire family got it in December. We were super careful (no socializing, no restaurants, all critical shopping delivered or done during off-hours, always wearing masks), but after months of being lockdown I "let" my adult kid get a job in a bookstore because her mental health was suffering so much. The store had decent precautions, and we stupidly thought that maybe smarter, more cautious people would be in a bookstore, but it was overrun with people complaining about masks, not wearing them properly, and one group that brought their own chairs to camp out in the children's section because all chairs had been removed from the store. Within a month of starting work DD brought Covid home. We isolated her as soon as she started showing symptoms, but we were all positive by then.
It was pretty mild for all of us, but about a week after first symptoms, I got a second wave (doc said not uncommon) with dizziness and nausea so severe that I couldn't get out of bed and extreme fatigue. I'm still dealing with extreme light-headedness (it is very hard to describe and NOT vertigo) and brain fog, although the fatigue has finally improved within the last month or so. I've seen my primary care doc, a neurologist, neuropsychologist, ENT, had two CT scans and an MRI looking for treatment and answers. I am far luckier than many, but it impacts my daily life and my ability to my job. It's so, so frustrating after we did (and continue to do) all the right things. Anyone who says it's just a flu and not a big deal can fuck right off.
I got my first vaccine shot yesterday. I was optimistic because there is some evidence that the vaccine helps long-haulers, but the light-headedness set in within 2 minutes of getting the shot and this morning I can't even walk across the room without feeling like I'm going to black out. So I guess we'll see.
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Post by kibblesandbits on Mar 27, 2021 18:13:35 GMT
Nope, never got it, nor did anyone in my family.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Mar 27, 2021 20:01:04 GMT
I am actually super surprised I did not get it. And have no idea how I didn't. I was exposed NUMEROUS times at work. I would be seeing a pt for days, and then they would test them for COVID and they would come back positive. The only thing protecting me was my mask. I give masks all the credit. I treated many COVID pts, and also my dh's side of the family got it. But that was after they all went to a meat raffle in the middle of COVID. Eye roll. I don't see how people can say masks don't work. BUT I also wonder those that still did everything right and got it? how?
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Post by maryannscraps on Mar 27, 2021 21:47:24 GMT
Nope. But I know so many people who did. Six who died. Maybe 10 who were hospitalized. About half here in Massachusetts and the others in my extended family all over the east coast.
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Post by AR Scrapper on Mar 27, 2021 22:30:21 GMT
Yes my entire family of six had it earlier this month. My husband tested positive at work so the rest of us all got tested to avoid the terrible NY quarantine rules if we didn’t all have tests. We were all sick and knew that since dh was positive we all were.
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Post by MaryMary on Mar 27, 2021 22:43:26 GMT
I got sick the first week of March 2020 while student teaching. My host teacher and many of the students also got sick and were coughing by the time schools were closed. There were no tests in my area at that time, and I have no idea if it was Covid or something else.
I have one brother and one sister (and their families) that caught it. My uncle died from covid in November.
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 28, 2021 6:23:54 GMT
Yes twice.
March 2020 dd was incredibly ill, had mono for the third time, and drs were puzzled, and struggled to include her mysterious rash they at first thought was measles. Later we found out her close classmate’s mother was one of the first tested positive Covid 19 cases in our county. At the same time, youngest ds was pretty sick, but tested negative for flu and strep. Then ex and I both got incredibly ill, lost the sense of smell/taste, cough, burning lungs, low oxygen etc. but there wasn’t much testing available at the time. However in June ex tested positive for Covid 19 antibodies. Meanwhile he and I struggled with long haul symptoms.
At the end of Oct, ex’s health took a worse then normal turn and he tested positive for mono. Ds got sick a few days later, and tested negative for mono and positive for Covid 19. Ex, dd, and I all became symptomatic within days and then tested positive for Covid 19. Ex and I continue to struggle with multiple long haul symptoms.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 11:29:04 GMT
I'm fairly certain DH and I never got it.
One DS was exposed at least once but never developed symptoms. He was supposed to be tested. He never followed through with it.
Other was also exposed. Test was negative. He never developed symptoms as well.
Dad had it. Horrid smokers cough for a couple of weeks and lingering fatigue for at least a month. Because his was mild, he seems to have fallen for the fox news crap of "it's not that bad" despite a good friend who also got it from the same gathering died.
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Post by farmgirl on Mar 28, 2021 11:50:33 GMT
Yes, got it December 12th...when I had done nothing but go to work (in an office of an 'essential' business), go home since March. Had groceries delivered. Our entire department came up with it literally same day. We had been wearing masks, having our doors closed, practicing social distancing when having meetings, extra disinfecting of our work surfaces, all the 'right' things.
It sucked, I was off work for over 3 weeks and got pneumonia.
I had my first vaccine Friday and had a pretty strong reaction (102 fever, chills, aches) all day yesterday...woke up with 100 fever today and took Tylenol. Am feeling pretty good now.
Am kind of excited about the reaction because it's telling me this ol broad has some fight in her yet!
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on Mar 28, 2021 12:07:46 GMT
No and I am pretty confident- I am part of an antibody study, and I haven't had antibodies anytime I gave blood. I am fully vaccinated, so I do now,
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Post by yinzer on Mar 28, 2021 16:02:43 GMT
Had it in October. It was rough. Not hospital rough but I was pretty sick. Was finally able to schedule my vaccine appointment today. Happily taking my first shot of Moderna next week. I would have been fine taking the J&J since I had Covid-19 but thrilled to get any of the vaccines
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Post by Ryann on Mar 28, 2021 18:48:54 GMT
Not tested, but suspected. Came home from a weeklong cruise March 14, 2020 and spent 10+ hours in a jam-packed airport (FLL). All cruise ships had been grounded, so everyone who just disembarked was there. Everyone expecting to embark but could not were trying to find flights home, were there. It was a madhouse. Within a week of being home, DH and I both were sick with symptoms, but not bad enough to require medical attention. There were no tests available for non-emergency cases then, anyways. We later got confirmation COVID was confirmed on the ship we were on, and then news reports of infected people at the airport gate we flew out of.
We both got our first dose of a vaccine earlier this week.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 20:48:42 GMT
No, not that I know of. I felt sick about a year ago but wasn't able to get a test back then (it wasn't available until much later). I knew many people who got Covid (most in NY).
DH and I got our 1st vaccines & will get the 2nd ones shortly. DD33 & DS30 will be able to get theirs here in a week! FL is lowering the age to 18+ by next week, according to my Congressman.
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Post by alsomsknit on Mar 29, 2021 2:15:17 GMT
There is a possibility I had it in February 2020. At the time, all that was asked was if I had been out of the country. I was horribly sick. Fatigued and bad cough. I don’t remember much other than I slept near on 4 days and was down 4 more. Missed 7 days of work. An entire week, plus 2 the following. Who knows?
My friend’s dad died due to Covid-19. A co-worker lost her g-ma to it. Was fortunate it didn’t take her dad or g-pa, as they were not expected to make it. Another of my coworkers was in the hospital for 2 weeks with it. Those were the worst cases. There have been quite a number of other people who have had it to varying degrees.
DH & I have received our first round of vaccine. He’s been fine. I have gone through hell with it. Will still go for the second dose.
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Post by christinec68 on Mar 29, 2021 2:31:36 GMT
I voted for yes-confirmed because I tested positive for antibodies last spring. I was asymptomatic but was exposed to DH who was sick with Covid in the beginning of April 2020. We got our second dose of the vaccine yesterday.
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Post by River on Mar 29, 2021 13:28:38 GMT
Yes, confirmed. Me and 2 of my sons, 15 and 20 all got it. The 15 year old and I both had really bad cases, the 20 year old just had a mild case.
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