Have you gotten covid? (POLL)

[picksthemusic]

No one in my family (me, DH, kids) have turned a test positive.

[mags]

My H and I both had it in 2022. I was sick my H had no symptoms. It took 4 tests over a week for me to test positive including 2 PCrs. I knew I had it!

[cherry1111]

Apr 22, 2024 16:54:53 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Twice, June 2022 and July 2023. Covid likes to get me in the summer somehow. And my family and I all have tended to not catch it from each other or from close family/friends that we had just seen who caught it - who we caught it from has generally been from random strangers out in the wild.

Us too! It’s been in our house 3 times and each time only got one person. My son is the only one of us who hasn’t gotten it now. He had the flu in 2022 though and it was worse than all our of Covid infections.

[mofongo]

Me once, H twice, we did nothing to isolate me the second time he had it, and I didn’t get it.

I’ve seen a few comments about how it was similar each time, or no I don’t think I had it before b/c of how I felt. H had more classic covid symptoms the first time, the second time he was literally mildly congested for one day. Not even sure what made him test, no known exposure. It can present wildly different.

[bittybomb]

Once. Tested posted NYD 2023. My son had it Feb 2022. No in else in our family of 5 has had it - tested tons.

[macmars45]

I had a good run until last summer (July 2023) and then again at the end of January (2024) when it spread like wildfire through my work. So I had it twice in roughly 6 months.

Last summer H and DS got it too. Thankfully H and DS tested negative multiple times when I got it in January of this year.

[agnes]

Yes, my first time was just this January. Two weeks after my vaccine! H had it end of 2021 and probably in fall 2022.

[verycontrary247]

Once in 2022

[sent]

DS's entire daycare class got it when he was not quite 3 yet. I had to take him to bed most nights and assumed I would catch it. A few days later, a test came back positive for me but I had no symptoms. There was one day that I felt hungover but didn't drink any alcohol prior to it. I think I eventually read this could have been a symptom.

[sandandsea]

I’ve gotten it three times, all after being fully vaxxed. But it’s never been worse than a sinus infection and the first time remains the worst.

[sweetchix]

Yes, once in June 2022.
Both DDs have had it twice but I never got it from them. In fact, I’m pretty sure I gave it to DD2 the first time she had it.

[jorja]

Yes, at least once. May of 2022.

Pretty sure we all had it again this fall.

[JayhawkGirl]

Delta July 2021, kicked our asses. We were all very sick for 10 days, and then weeks of coughing and fatigue after. Kids weren’t able to be vaccinated yet and got even sicker than the adults.

Both kids have lingering asthma issues since, DS moreso than DD. She only has issues if she is sick or exerts in really cold air (which is often w soccer). He needs an inhaler now before any exercise/PE.

March 23 - three of us got it. Dh was asymptomatic but lit up his tests after I tested before calling in for a new inhaler bc mine was expired. Felt fine, thought it was an allergy flair bc my nose was runny one afternoon after deep cleaning the garage. Tested to be safe since we were leaving in a few days for spring break to see friends and family on our way to our cabin. We literally climbed mountains the day after we tested negative and met up with our friends for spring break in CO. Dd never got it. DS was last to catch and had enough runny nose we would have tested him for school or travel.

We all keep current on our boosters.

I suspect I had it Christmas 2019, although I didn’t pass it along so maybe it was something else.

[basilosaurus]

It's possible I was one of the early cases. Jan 2020, and I was in the country that was the first outside China affected. But, it was also smoky season (often the city was the worst in the world daily), so we always wore masks anyway, and my nasty cough that lingered for weeks might have just been due to that.

Other than that, no.

[wambam]

Twice - July 2022 and October 2023

My dad has never had it, nor my business partner.

[underwaterrhymes]

Yes; everyone in my house has had it twice. I also test anytime any of us have symptoms, which I don’t think many people do.

[mrsukyankee]

3 times for both H and I. First lost smell and taste (and it's continued to not be fully back). The second time I got hit with a longer form of Covid - I was unable to even go for a walk or do anything after work due to fatigue for a long while. I'm still not fully back to feeling I can do everything as strongly as before. The last time was this winter. It was the least impactful and hit my H harder than me, the first time he's actually had any major symptoms. We have had 2 boosters but the UK refused to give any further from the autumn of 2022, which is probably why my 2nd was so awful.

[mysteriouswife]

I was confirmed twice. The rest of my house once.

We suspect DS and I had it in Feb., but tested negative at home early on. He and I did a quick weekend trip to GA. We both started sniffling on the way home and assumed allergies. I tested a day later per my company policy. It was negative. We didn’t test again. A few days later my cousin whom we were visiting called. She had Covid. She started the same day we did with sniffles. She went to urgent care due to feeling like she had the flu and tested positive for Covid. DS and I still tested negative, but it was 4 days after the first symptom.

[mysteriouswife]

Apr 23, 2024 6:34:39 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Yes; everyone in my house has had it twice. I also test anytime any of us have symptoms, which I don’t think many people do.

We do too. The one time I was careless about it we likely had Covid. Are you finding it difficult to find test now? I try to buy one or two when we use one. I am trying to avoid being the hoarder and buying them when I see them.

[underwaterrhymes]

Apr 23, 2024 6:52:22 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Apr 23, 2024 6:34:39 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Yes; everyone in my house has had it twice. I also test anytime any of us have symptoms, which I don’t think many people do.

We do too. The one time I was careless about it we likely had Covid. Are you finding it difficult to find test now? I try to buy one or two when we use one. I am trying to avoid being the hoarder and buying them when I see them.

I buy the iHealth ones off Amazon. Easy to get and having tried many brands, I have discovered I like this one the best.

[Mrs. ChanandlerBong]

Twice.

Spring of 2022 and this past Christmas.
In 2022 DH and DS also had it. I was the only one who was sick in December.

DD made it to spring of 2023 before she got Covid. We all were vaccinated before our first round.
The first run for me was also worse than the 2nd. I ended up with bad brain fog for months after. This most recent time my symptoms weren’t bad,‘I was just exhausted for 10 days.

[mysteriouswife]

Apr 23, 2024 7:02:02 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Apr 23, 2024 6:52:22 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

We do too. The one time I was careless about it we likely had Covid. Are you finding it difficult to find test now? I try to buy one or two when we use one. I am trying to avoid being the hoarder and buying them when I see them.

I buy the iHealth ones off Amazon. Easy to get and having tried many brands, I have discovered I like this one the best.

It never occurred to me to buy them online. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[hermione]

I had it in February for the first time. the worst part for me was the awful taste from Paxlovid. My kid (11) had it for the first time at Christmas. My husband has had it once...in 2022 maybe?

ETA: we still test for symptoms.

[pandora89]

Once for me and the kids, DH has tested positive twice (the rest of us did not but we had similar symptoms so I am assuming we all had it).

[pandora89]

Once for me and the kids, DH has tested positive twice (the rest of us did not but we had similar symptoms so I am assuming we all had it).

[macmars45]

Apr 22, 2024 18:56:30 GMT -5 mofongo said:

I’ve seen a few comments about how it was similar each time, or no I don’t think I had it before b/c of how I felt. H had more classic covid symptoms the first time, the second time he was literally mildly congested for one day. Not even sure what made him test, no known exposure. It can present wildly different.

It was the same for me back in January. I only tested because I knew it was spreading through my workplace like wildfire. I'm sure I got it from a coworker who didn't test because it presented like a very mild cold.... except for the coworkers who weren't vaxxed. They had a rough go of it. I laughed to myself that I could tell who was vaxxed and who wasn't. (I live in a very red covid vaccines are untested blah blah blah area.)

[wanderingback]

One positive during maternity leave Jan 2023.

As far as others go my parents (divorced), my aunt and grandmother who is 106 have never had any symptoms and have never tested positive the few times they’ve tested (before events, etc).

[leahcar]

Yes and we've officially had it at least twice. I suspect I had it a third time, but never turned a test.

We avoided COVID until 2022, but, once we back into regular school, it's come home periodically.

[melmel4854]

Not that I am aware of. I sat on the couch next to my sick dad to watch the superbowl. He was so sick, but my mom insisted it was a cold. I ended up getting him a covid test and sure enough.. covid.

If I have had it, I have not had symptoms. Every time I have been sick and tested it was negative.

[Scout'sHonor]

I'm the only one in my household that hasn't gotten it, that I'm aware of. Kiddo had it March 2022 and H had it last Sep.