Since my last post my cousin, who normally lives in England but was in New Mexico at the time, had the 'Rona in August or September if I recall, I’d have to go back and check because all the days and weeks and months are just running together in a big blur at this point. Fortunately for his family, they were still back in England. Unfortunately for him, that meant he had to deal with everything alone. He was able to keep his food down sufficiently and eventually recovered. He says it’s worse than the worst flu he’s ever had, and he had some hellish flus growing up. It remains to be seen if he’s got any long-term effects from it.
One of my co-workers had it - got it from one of her two-college aged kids, both of whom got it at school. She was the sickest of the three - was pretty much out of commission for three weeks. She had most of the symptoms, but in a rolling fashion - when one set would improve, others would set in to replace them.
I’ve been running a slight fever (regular temp is 97.6, but I’ve been between 99.5 and 101.2) for about two and a half weeks now, and I can’t get the authorization from my med group to get the test.
Aren’t any local places doing free testing? The state is around here, and various local hospitals are funding free testing.
Not at this time. It looks like the Red Cross does a check if you donate blood…but apparently you won’t get the results for two weeks.
Daughter’s fiancé had to be tested due to direct exposure at work. Yesterday he received the bill - $195.00.
Luckily, he tested negative.
WTF! We’ve had free testing available here is SE Michigan since late March. This is why there needed to be coordination at the Federal level. Trump administration you’re killing Czarcasm, YOU BASTARDS.
Over the weekend, we learned that our former neighbors from our old condo both had it in September. One recovered quickly, the other not quite so quickly. Luckily they are both OK now and neither had to be hospitalized.
My sister in law and nephew tested positive yesterday. Brother is negative. Mild symptoms. My sister in law’s mother lives with them. They are worried about her.
At this point, it seems really strange to me that there are apparently people who don’t know anyone who has been diagnosed.
I only know one person (long-distance friend) who has been diagnosed, and she had it much earlier (like, before reliable tests were available, and waited long enough to get the antibody test that it too tested negative) but has now been post-diagnosed because of recurrent post-viral symptoms. I also know one (local) family who are pretty certain they had it (again, early in the game, but textbook symptoms and had just visited an outbreak place) but were not tested at the time, and never diagnosed.
No one else. No one local, in particular; I live in a place that has by and large been very good about taking precautions and masking, and our numbers are pretty small.
Now, my parents and sister live in a place that’s been taking fewer precautions, ditto for my parents’ former home, so they know a bunch of people who have been diagnosed, and one who’s died. Fortunately my family themselves have been very good about locking down.
On the other hand… I guess religious services are starting up again around here, so maybe we’ll see it blasting through in another couple of weeks. At least they’re masking and not singing, but…
My son in law’s aunt had a positive test 4 days after she was at a completely outdoors distanced masked back yard gathering at his house (I went over half an hour later). My roommate’s dad has had it twice, four months apart, confirmed by tests. He’s a hospital nurse in Texarkana. First time he ended up in his own respiratory care unit for four days.
Are medical authorities aware of his situation? There have been 3 confirmed cases of reinfection in the US. Confirmed cases of reinfection around the world are nearly non-existent.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/10/14/immunity-and-re-infection
For months now, people have been watching closely to see if it’s possible to get re-infected with the coronavirus. It’s taken a while for the signal-to-noise to get better, but by now there’s no doubt that the answer is yes, it’s possible. We’ve just had the first of these in the US, a man in Nevada who was infected twice six weeks apart, with the second round being worse than the first. And in the Netherlands, the first fatality from a reinfection has been reported. All this sounds immediately like bad news, but I’m going to break out the same advice I was handing out yesterday: don’t panic.
Why not? Because from everything we can see, re-infection is a very rare event. The confirmed examples worldwide could possibly be counted on your fingers (depending on whose count you believe) out of at least 38 million total cases.
He’s a respiratory intensive care nurse in the major hospital in his region. The hospital did the testing so they have to know, as well as he’s taking sick time to self-isolate.
One of my Facebook friends, who I met at a club I still belong to (or would if we still met) was diagnosed earlier this week. Because she’s considered a public figure (I don’t wish to go into more detail about that), it got in today’s paper, and that’s where I read about it. The article also implied that she and her husband had separated, but maybe they were just trying to say that she was living apart from him and the kids until she recovers and is de-quarantined (is that a word?) but neither FB page showed this, and it’s really not my business anyway.
She actually went to her doctor thinking she had a bacterial sinus infection, and she did BUT she also tested positive for COVID.
So far, my uncle has died from it (I posted upthread), and my parent’s next door neighbor died Tuesday. This was my Dad’s last, tiny bit of socializing as they “talked fishing” over the fence. The neighbor’s entire household became infected, with symptoms ranging from nothing to mild cold, to fatal. Another neighbor who visited them brought it back home and their household is now showing symptoms. No word on how severe.
My parents are in their late 80s and poor health. They’re avoiding almost all social contact in an attempt to hold on until vaccines are available. I normally visit once a month to help out and give Dad a breather to run errands since Mom requires full time care, but they’ve requested I stay home to limit another possible vector. Not only is their house deteriorating (bulbs out, filters, etc.) he’s slowly wearing himself down with 24/7 care. After my final surgeries (yes plural) are completed this fall, I will get an antigen test for myself at my own expense. One of my kids got sick with Covid-like symptoms in Singapore in March and was quarantined there. After release (no Covid test) and traveling home, we all got sick with an odd flu. I’m going to spend my own money to find out if that was actually Covid. If I had it, I assume it means I’m less of a threat to my folks – and I’ll travel to help out for a week or so and help them catch up on stuff (700 mile trip, so I have to get surgeon’s approval too).
I know I should view things in context and count my blessings, but damn – 2020 is a shitty year.
Hours ago I learned that my Corona PCR test was positive. I have been feeling a little ill, on and off, the ten days before, but I had no COVID symptoms. After I started to cough a lot, and developed a mild fever, I took sick leave and decided to do the Corona test. I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Record breaking 10,000 positive tests each day in my country these days.
I don’t feel too bad, really. A bit of headache, chest pain, coughing, tiredness, that’s all. No fever now, never any difficulty breathing.
Lots of my friends have tested positive and most of them have been ill with it - a couple weren’t ill despite everyone else in their household being sick. Last week I went to the pub with five friends - it happened to be outdoors, so we were in the group of six even before tier 2 - and two of them had already been diagnosed, and recovered.
One other friend is still quite ill after testing positive in April.
One of my Facebook friends has it, and because she’s a fairly prominent local citizen, I actually read about it in the newspaper. The newspaper story also implied that she and her husband had separated, but a little further sleuthing indicated that this does not appear to be the case; he is simply staying elsewhere with their two young children so she can recover and quarantine at home. (Not my business, really, but I was surprised about the implication.) Last I heard, she isn’t seriously ill but went to the doctor because she thought she had a sinus infection, and she did but she also tested positive for COVID.
With more aggressive testing at the local university, it becomes clear that many college students all around us have COVID or have a close enough social contact with COVID to have had to be tested or quarantined. I’ll guess the actual rate at about 10% based on disclosures.
Can we change the title to “does anyone here NOT know anyone personally who has been diagnosed”? I do live in a regional hot zone, but it seems everyone now has friends, family or coworkers that have tested positive.