Current Affairs Have you had confirmed Covid-19?

[dholliday]

Have you had, per test, confirmed Covid-19 or at least confirmed the sars-cov-2 was in your system?

Snap poll, i think there must be over a thousand individuals who regularly log on and browse, so feel free to anonymously hit a poll option.

If you have had it, and you feel like it, post details on your status (risk group, age, city etc).

My poll choice: Not me, but family. My 88-year old Granddad from Hull has it. Had aided breathing but seems to be doing ok. Fingers crossed x

 

[Billy Dean]

Not me, but someone from work, not really in my contacts as such

 

[roydo]

Loads of posters mentioned feeling off colour November to January time in the main thread.

Was quite odd that we all felt it felt different to a normal winter bug.

 

[wm02]

Not yet but my aunt and uncle on Long
Island both had it as did my university roommate who lives in NYC and is a doctor at a hospital in Connecticut.
My aunt had very mild symptoms, my uncle ended up in hospital on oxygen for four days.
My old uni roommate had some neurological paresthesia post-virus

 

[jamieni]

Loads of posters mentioned feeling off colour November to January time in the main thread.

Was quite odd that we all felt it felt different to a normal winter bug.

My mum ended up in hospital just before Christmas with pneumonia and was on oxygen for a couple of days. The doctors didn’t know what it was and were considering putting her in an isolation ward before she improved.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Loads of posters mentioned feeling off colour November to January time in the main thread.

Was quite odd that we all felt it felt different to a normal winter bug.

The first case in this country was recorded as 28th December (certainly symptoms of something unknown) so that would make sense tbh

 

[Joey66]

Loads of posters mentioned feeling off colour November to January time in the main thread.

Was quite odd that we all felt it felt different to a normal winter bug.

The were a hell of a lot about a virus in that time that was throat chest related to me as my wife had a similar virus - that went away then came back a few times took her a month to get rid of it..... don't think it was Covid 19 though but symptoms were alike..? who knows?

 

[Catfish Blues]

The first case in this country was recorded as 28th December (certainly symptoms of something unknown) so that would make sense tbh

I thought the first recorded case in the UK was at the end of Jan ?

China only reported the situation to the WHO at the end of December, so it'd be interesting to see info for a confirmed UK case on the 28th of December if you've got it mate ?

 

[Simon Buttle]

I thought the first recorded case in the UK was at the end of Jan ?

China only reported the situation to the WHO at the end of December, so it'd be interesting to see info for a confirmed UK case on the 28th of December if you've got it mate ?

It was in all the data from the ONS, i don't think it was a confirmed case as such but more symptoms of an unknown virus which they now are saying was CV19. Im not sure how much i trust what China are saying tbh, yes they only reported it in December but there seems to be many scientists suggesting it was active before then.
I could be getting mixed up however and maybe read it wrong as Dec and not Jan due to having a bit of a smoke at the time, apologies if so

 

[Bruce Wayne]

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Not me but my step dad had it which led to pneumonia, he's out of hospital now and getting better

 

[LocalNative]

Was pretty ill in Feb with bit of a fever but doubt it was 'Rona.

Have friends who reckon they've had it but it's really hard to tell if they did or if it was a regular flu/cold.

 

[Zezti]

My dad's old work friend who lived in Spain died from it a few weeks ago.
Other than that, just a confirmed negative from my cousin's toddler.

 

[sdk]

I don't suppose I've had it but, having never had access to a test, how would I know?

 

[Catfish Blues]

It was in all the data from the ONS, i don't think it was a confirmed case as such but more symptoms of an unknown virus which they now are saying was CV19. Im not sure how much i trust what China are saying tbh, yes they only reported it in December but there seems to be many scientists suggesting it was active before then.
I could be getting mixed up however and maybe read it wrong as Dec and not Jan due to having a bit of a smoke at the time, apologies if so

I'm happy to be corrected mate, but, unless I'm missing something, the ONS data shows deaths not cases, and the first recorded death from the ONS was in March ?

Far as I know, of the first known cases in the UK, one was a bloke from Sussex who'd picked it up abroad and came home late Jan, and the other was two Chinese nationals who'd come over to York, again, at the end of Jan.

It's not impossible that people who had flu like symptoms in Dec and Jan actually had COVID, but it does seem pretty unlikely.