# How many people here have never knowingly had COVID?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [January 3, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-here-have-never-knowingly-had-covid/995566 "2024-01-03T22:16:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-here-have-never-knowingly-had-covid/995566/81 "2024-05-04T08:22:21Z")

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> [@Aspenglow](#):
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> I’ve had all shots and boosters except the one most recently recommended for we oldies. I may skip it and wait till fall. My reactions to the shots are 3 days of pure misery.

Never got it afaik, and the only thing the shots did to me was induce a series of slightly sore arms for a few days. I have been religious about using hand sanitizer ever since the first strain hit, fwiw, but haven’t masked in more than 2 years now.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-here-have-never-knowingly-had-covid/995566/82 "2024-05-04T20:48:05Z")

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I feel like each time i get the shots, my reaction is a little worse the first time it was just a sore arm. Then i had a sure arm and was tired for a day. Then i was tied for a day and ached all over. Then i ached all over and maybe ran a light fever, and slept all day.

But I’ve never really had more than a day of symptoms from the shots, and the case of covid took the wind out of my sails for a few weeks, as well as making me very sick for a few days. I want eligible for a spring vaccine, and not i obviously don’t need one, but I’m planning on getting a shot next fall.

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