My own data point:
Late January I was part of an extended family gathering for my grandmother’s funeral. 23 of us. On the flight home I started feeling awful. A couple of days of fever and chills; throat/cough issues; then body aches and a weakness and fatigue that lasted 3 weeks. I was thinking “not the flu” b/c I had gotten my annual flu shot last fall.
I went to the doctor. They took a swab. Came back “Flu Type A.”
It was the flu.
I think I have had it for several days now, not sure. Dry cough, slight fever 1 day, tightness in my chest I have never experienced that went on for about 4 or 5 days. This morning feeling more back to normal but still breathing slightly heavier than normal. Only symptoms I had, no body aches or extreme weakness. I am also sneezing which I know is not a symptom, sneezing just started this morning and went on for about 20 minutes. If I did have it I think I am just coming out of it. 71 yrs old here.
My cleaning lady has it, tested and verified. I’m worried for her because she’s in her late 60s and diabetic, and probably has other health issues I don’t know about
To inject a note of optimism here…
“Increased risk” is not the same as “doomed”. Despite her age and diabetes there is still a good chance of her getting through the disease. Be hopeful until that is impossible.
My girlfriend has had dry non productive cough for several days now also. Coughing seems to go in spurts a few hours apart. She won’t allow me to take her temp but she doesn’t feel like she has a fever. She has been tired and weak sleeping at least 12 hours a day.
And her reasoning would be…?
A man from my church, who I have also done several community theater plays with, had a heart attack a few weeks ago. He was doing well, and was moved from the hospital into an assisted living facility, the idea being that he would recuperate there until he was well enough to go home.
Unfortunately, that facility turned out to be the center of a COVID outbreak. 22 people there have died. He has tested positive for the virus. According to his wife, he has a fever and is throwing up a lot, although so far no breathing issues and his oxygen level is good. I don’t know his exact age, but he’s in his 70s, and as I said, just had a heart attack. Still, so far the news is not as bad as it might have been.
Good news - my cousin’s wife is doing better. Still in ICU, still in respirator, but apparently she is clearly improving.
If it is the flu (the west coast strains), would they show up on an influenza A and B test? Or are those just the common ones… I believe I got “it” on the west coast but my A and B tests were done on the other coast.
Sad update to this. My friend passed away in the early hours of this morning.
Oh goodness. 
I am so sorry.
Thanks. He was a very nice man–a retired teacher–with a larger than life personality, which made him wonderful in community theater. This makes the pandemic real in a way it hadn’t been before.
As far as I know, no one I know in meatspace nor am related to has come down with this. I don’t expect that grace to last.
(I haven’t got it either, but even before I went into self-isolation, I had fairly minimal public contact. I take my temperature every day now that I have a battery for my thermometer, and it’s been within normal parameters if a smidge high for the average of what I’ve seen for years.)
My heart just breaks for all the people who know someone who is sick or who has lost someone.
I’m very sorry.
I know a cluster that happened around March 21- 22nd. That was the date they were together. So far they have recovered. 3-4 in hospital, 1 is still there. I have not seen them since the 15th, (whew).
I am so worried about her. They do have her at the lowest vent setting, but when they try to remove it ( over the weekend) she runs into trouble. She is responsive when they lower the sedation, and of course, tries to get at the tube.
So worried.
I know of two families that have had to isolate as a precaution - used to be work colleagues but I have since retired. Glad of that too or I would likely have had to isolate too.
One of those families had a grandparent who passed, however UK testing is not methodical or logical, so although they have now all cleared the isolation period they have not been tested so they have no idea if they were ever positive.
They also have key worker roles that could easily see them in contact with carriers in a work environment that is absolutely made for transmission.
It would be really useful for them to know their Corvid status, in fact more than that, its really essential since they might end up having to isolate again and thus deprive the employer of their extremely necessary labour.
Today went I went into work I found out four people in my company have died of covid-19. They were in the Detroit area and not my local area, but still… they were frontline grocery store workers who probably picked it up at work.
We have about 20 people from our staff out, either sick or in quarantine. Don’t know which are confirmed to have covid or showing symptoms because by and large they don’t share details. But yeah, some familiar faces are no longer being seen at work.
I’m so sorry. That’s scary.
I just found out that the secretary of my department was diagnosed as Covid-19 positive.
I last had contact with her on March 18, and she was feeling quite unwell then. She blamed it on a abscessed tooth. We were furloughed beginning Mar. 19, so I have not had any contact with her for 4 weeks as of about 3:30 today. As of today she is feeling better and working remotely.
I had a cough and sporadic headaches a couple weeks ago but passed it off as allergies – my usual spring allergies manifest themselves similarly. I never bothered to take my temperature because I didn’t feel feverish or have any other symptoms. Now I’m wondering (worrying?) if I had it all along.
I’m isolating with my family. None of them have had any symptoms of Covid-19. I’ve gone grocery shopping a couple of times since Mar 19, and picked up dinner at a local drive-in, but otherwise have stayed home. My wife has not left the house and neither have my boys.
I’m wondering if we all dodged a very big bullet here.
Yay! The Missus and I are in the club now! Over the weekend she came down with a wicked fever, bouncing between 100-103 for a couple days, then started with the real heavy coughing and chest pain yesterday. To get tested (this was awesome!) she spent about 20 minutes on the phone with her doc Monday morning, who gave her a location about an hour away from where we live–and we’re not rural–that she could go to on Tuesday. So we get there, they swab her nose up to the eyeball, and then announce the results will be available hopefully within a week, and that the test is yielding false negatives 30% of the time. So even if it’s a no, there’s a good chance it’s really a yes. Her doc is pretty convinced the test is just a formality in her case. She was coughing up a bit of blood last night (she didn’t tell me that bit until this morning) and damn near coughed herself out at one point. Scary for a few minutes but she got it under control. I haven’t been able to smell or taste anything for over a week but am otherwise normalish–little fever, occasional sputtery cough. And we’ve been super careful about staying away from people and whatnot for a bit over a month now. Seems like if it’s gonna get you it’s gonna get you.