Post by simpsongal on Apr 22, 2024 12:00:39 GMT -5
A colleague of mine contracted covid this past weekend (first time in 4 years). Made me curious w/our little cohort - have you had covid?
ETA: I have not. DH and DS got it a couple years ago, though DS was asymptomatic. DD was sick at that time too but never tested positive (we suspect she had it though).
Post by CrazyLucky on Apr 22, 2024 12:08:21 GMT -5
I seem to be immune (although I did still get vaccinated). In 2021, I was living with my sister and brother-in-law in NJ until we settled on our house and DH and the kids moved up. DH and my kids came to visit one weekend. They all got it from sister and BIL, but I didn't. I also spent two nights with my mom when she had it. She had so many health problems we didn't realize it was COVID at first, but I stayed in the same room as she did and didn't get it. I hope I keep my streak!
I checked SS because there isn't a straight up No option. I know I haven't ever had it because I've been participating in a long term research study and get regular saliva tests that have consistently come back with no indication of antibodies from infection, just antibodies from vaccination/booster
The first time, it got my whole family. My husband and I could barely get out of bed. The second time, just my husband and I got it. We were able to pretty much function as normal, except for a little fatigue.
We think DH and I had it in last June and gave it to my parents. My kid never got sick and everyone had different symptoms.
DH went to a funeral. Next day he felt nauseous and thought it was the food. Was fine 2 days later. I got a cold a week after that and was stuffy. We saw my parents for my kid's recital and my dad ended up with a sinus infection and went to urgent care. My mom just had a cold, but it was like 2 days and not like mine.
I tested because it was recital weekend, but it wasn't positive.
Post by lavenderblue on Apr 22, 2024 12:12:45 GMT -5
Twice. I was fully vaccinated and boosted the first time I got it in 2022. I got it again in Summer 2023 but hadn't gotten any more boosters at that point.
Not that I'm aware of! DH had it last January, then DS did later in February (seemed to be two separate infections), but I never had symptoms or tested positive (despite testing regularly while they were sick).
This just came up! Someone I work with just tested positive last week. She said that she'd never tested positive before, but had been telling people that it was possible that she'd had it and just didn't realize.
Now that she's had it, she felt very confident that she'd never had it before. It sounds like it kicked her ass.
I was in the same boat-- DD and I never had it (to my knowledge) despite my son having definitely had it twice, and my husband having it at least once. I'd always sort of thought that maybe I'd had it but with mild symptoms. I do always seem to get much more mild symptoms than the rest of my family for most illnesses. But after my colleague's experience, maybe not.
Post by starburst604 on Apr 22, 2024 12:20:40 GMT -5
I had it twice, December 2020 and December 2021. Despite not taking any special precautions at home, STBX didn't get it either time and has never had it. DD caught it from me the second time and that's the only time she's had it.
Post by fortnightlily on Apr 22, 2024 12:21:48 GMT -5
Twice confirmed by testing - July 2022 after traveling abroad and this past February. Both presented as mild colds. DS has never tested positive, but I suspect he gave it to us in Feb and we just didn't realize that's what his "slightly more sniffly than usual" the week before was, and he was negative by the time we were positive.
I still think I may have had the OG strain in Jan 2020 as well. I had multi-day fever, cough, and awful headache and tested negative for Flu and RSV at both the urgent care and ER.
We all (me, DH and DS) got it for the first time in four years at Thanksgiving. My brother, SIL and MIL all got it for the first time this winter too. My mom and FIL still haven't had it. Taking masks off had a really big impact for my family because that was really the only difference between the way we acted in the fall of 2022 and the fall of 2023.
My DD just had it for the 3rd time, H has had it once and I never have (knocks wood). There is no more quarantine/isolation required in our school district for a positive test; it's treated just like any other illness. As long as kids are fever free for 24 hours without medication and symptoms are improving, they are allowed to attend school. Masks aren't even required 😬 (I did have her mask when she returned to school for an additional week due to cough.)
3 times that I know of. I’ve never been that sick though. I’ve had head colds that are far worse. Each Covid infection has been nothing more than a nuisance. I test bc of my job. In Before Times I wouldn’t have even blinked.
We’ve all had it a few times. My husband unfortunately has had some poor health outcomes that are likely exacerbated by repeated COVID infections, which really sucks. He’s a school teacher, and it pisses me off that both of his exposures (and actually all of our nuclear family’s exposures) have been due to his job.
Just once, in the summer of 2022. I am honestly kind of surprised, we were suuuuper careful until about then but after I had it I kind of threw caution to the wind. I do mask occasionally in certain circumstances and have kept up on boosters, but for the most part I behave like I did in 2019.