I tested positive yesterday (Tuesday) morning after returning home from a vacation in Spain Sunday night. Yesterday was a tough day, with a bad sore throat, headache, cough, muscle aches and slight fever. Today I’m feeling better, fever and headache are gone, and energy levels are returning.
My wife remains negative, and we are isolating from each other in the house.
The procedure has varied, but generally the sick person is interviewed by a contracted agency to determine if they had any close contacts during the infectious stage (i.e. a few days before symptoms started). If so, those people are contacted and quarantined if necessary - no returning to work for a certain number of days with no symptoms/positive tests. Meanwhile a company-wide e-mail is sent redacting the name of the infected but mentioning their department, where they may have been during the infectious stage, how many people they may have come into contact with and whether any of those people were subsequently quarantined.
They also give a certain amount of extra “Covid-leave” to cover time off due to infection or vaccine reaction.
Not me (100% WFH), but my wife is required to go in the office one day a week. On the days she went in, she almost always got an email the next day that someone in the building had tested positive, and then reassurance that they weren’t in her area (of course, no way to know if they had randomly passed each in the bathroom or a hallway).
The last couple of weeks, no mail. It could mean no reports, but I’m guessing that the company has stopped the general notification (hopefully still telling people who likely had contact).
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I’ve literally lost count. Many managers and employees in my office have gone a round with it, and not a day goes by without one friend or another on Facebook posting a pic of a home test with two lines. The only person I know who passed away from it is my aunt that mentioned in this thread months ago.
I got my second booster last week. I know it’s not impregnable against the current Omicron variants but with a trip coming up I’m getting paranoid and want everything possible in my arsenal. I’ll happily line up for another jab in five or six months if the updated variant vaccines are rolled out then.
Welp, my daughter just tested positive. She’s only 26 so it just feels like a cold to her. Scratchy throat, slight congestion, and a little coughing. She lives with me so I’m sure I’m next. I’m double-boosted and pretty healthy. Fun times. 
Had to cancel dinner plans tonight because the hosts’ daughter is exhibiting symptoms, but still testing negative. Both the hosts are triple vaxxed but both still caught it over the summer.
Update: in this household of four, eventually the mom, dad, and adult daughter got it. Mom’s case was the worse, dad and sis milder. But the adult son never got it at all-- no symptoms and continued to test negative. Finally the three afflicted ones are testing negative, too. Mom said she still has a bad cough.
I’ve heard a lot of stories like that, where at least one person in a household of infected people manages to escape infection. I hope someone is studying this.
Finally got hit, two and a half years in. Was feeling kind of meh all day Friday; I’d tested on Friday morning and it was negative. Then Friday night I could barely sleep and woke up badly congested with a raw throat. Did another test and saw the dreaded second line. Still have my sense of taste and sense of smell, but when I cough it feels like my lungs are full of pudding. I’m double-vaxxed and double-boosted so I’m not too worried, but this is just an incredibly annoying time at work and in my social life for this to finally happen.
Damn. Hope it’s a very mild case…
I got it for the first time last month. The timing couldn’t have been worse. My teen daughter and her boyfriend were visiting for the week and halfway through I tested positive. That meant that I had to quarantine, stay away from them, and stay in a room. All the stuff we were going to do, forget it. Two days later my wife tested positive also. So the poor kids had to spend 5 days in a strange place with nothing to do and nowhere to go. They were also 4 days late flying back home since they couldn’t fly for days after being in close contact with me.
Oh, and the day after I tested positive was my youngest daughter’s birthday. So we had to cancel her celebration too. It sucked all around.
The only good things were that my symptoms weren’t too bad; it was like a really bad flu at its worst. (I am also fully vaxxed and boosted.) And my oldest daughter and her boyfriend never caught it. (My youngest daughter did catch it, but it only gave her the sniffles for 2 days. Being 8 years old helps, especially since she’s also vaxxed and boosted.)
I think this latest variant is especially infectious.
Add me to that list. My wife had Covid back in November of last year. I never did (or at least, I never tested positive on the home tests, and never had any symptoms).
Here’s an article on that phenomenon from The Atlantic:
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One recent roundup of 135 studies found that the overall spread of disease within a home—an epidemiological phenomenon that is unfortunately named “household secondary attack rate”—was 42.7 percent for the earliest forms of Omicron. The offshoots we’ve seen since then are more transmissible, so the chance of getting the virus from a roommate is now probably closer to 50 percent, Bob Wachter, the chair of UC San Francisco’s department of medicine, told me. “It’s about a coin flip,” he said. “The key thing is that it’s certainly not a sure thing.”
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Thanks, I’m somewhat on the mend though my voice isn’t back yet.
I know it’s just wishful thinking at this point, but I’m reeeeeeeally hoping that my four shots plus this new exposure (plus continued masking and other caution) will tide me over with relative immunity until the Omicron-tuned vaxxes are ready this Fall. I’m finally traveling in October, a trip that’s been postoponed a few times since October 2020, and I live in dread fear of seeing two lines on the home test 72 hours before my flight.
Just tested positive. Relatively mild symptoms. I also had it last December.
The wife early this year while she was on a visit back home to Bangkok. Some colleagues. I personally have avoided it so far.
At least two entire families of relatives have had COVID, but they’re mild cases so far, except for one kinda distant elderly relative who died of it. Can’t say who’s vaccinated or not, except one family, my aunt and her daughter, who have been vaxxed and currently have it. Not sure if the elderly relative who died was vaccinated, I think not but I’m not sure.
Most likely due to a trainload of Covidiots, I’ve now joined the club.
We took the Auto Train to Florida on Labor Day weekend. We were among the very, very few people in the waiting room wearing masks.
We took it back this past Saturday. More were wearing masks, but not that many more, and we had nearly an hour wait for our car at the end.
I felt a bit allergic on the train Sunday morning, but allergies are no big deal. I tested (negative), and the symptoms went away as random allergic symptoms are wont to do.
Monday night, I started feeling like I was catching a cold. Annoying - and a cold can hit me fairly hard. I woke up early Tuesday, feeling a bit worse (but no worse than a cold would, at that point). I did another home test. Negative.
But to be on the safe side, I booked an appointment at the local CVS for drive-through testing.
And the results came back an hour ago. Positive.
My doc can’t fit me in for several days, and I’d be risking running out of the Paxlovid cutoff. So I have an appoinment at the urgent care clinic (next door to the primary care) tonight.
Le sigh.
I just redid the home test and it’s a strong positive. My husband did one earlier today and it showed positive briefly then went away, well within the 10 minutes.
We spoke with the family members we were visiting in Florida (husband’s parents, mid-80s), and with their friends (even older) whom we visited one evening; so far, all are well there.
can you talk with your doctor about whether it makes sense to take paxlovid? A friend who is struggling with long covid thinks its because he took it – he thinks the sudden drop in viral load can confuse your immune system, and it may take longer to actually clear the covid and then for the immune system to shut down again (since at least some of the common long covid symptoms appear to be from an over-active immune response.) He points out that paxlovid was only tested on people at a high risk of dying, and it works to reduce the odds they will die, but it’s not clear that it’s helpful for other people.