How many people do you know who have had Corona Virus?

[ten6mom]

1 who I know in person (coworker).

 

[peabody58]

I'm not entirely clear what you mean by "a little perspective". Could you elaborate?

No, not really. Given the responses so far there is no 'right' or 'wrong' response when statistics are involved. You are all doing a great job of defining 'a little perspective', hence I have nothing left to add.

Oh and my number of known Covid is now up to 5 since my last post. Still going to WDW in Oct.

 

[LuvOrlando]

5 that were open about it, 1 death

 

[DLgal]

Zero for me as well. My dad thought he had it in July. Both his tests were negative, though.

 

[pezgirlroy]

3. 1 recovered, 1 death, 1 other hospitalization still recovering 3 months later.

 

[Debbie Jean]

Dozens.
6 deaths. 2 faculty, 1 staff, 3 students.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

A co-worker's family - all 5 members of the family came down with it and the grandfather who lived with them died from it a few weeks ago. The grandfather had not been out of the house since March.

 

[tvguy]

3 I know.

But 177 within 9-10ths of a mile of my house....11 dead.....because of an outbreak at a nursing home by me Not sure about the senior retirement village within a mile of my house, 700 folks live there.

 

[Weedy]

5
2 hospitalized both underlying conditions. One 23 years old one 79 years old. Both recovering.
3 flu like symptoms and have recovered.

 

[bavaria]

Actually I think it's quite the opposite. As I read along it looks more like it is nowhere near the rampant killer that the media is trying to convince us it is.

We've been discussing this on the 'non-US COVID' thread. I pointed out that unfortunately as the US dominates the world media, it's really difficult to discuss or question without being considered 'ultra right wing', or a 'covidiot', etc. But there are a lot of media reports now questioning the actions taken, and the death rates.

Daily deaths from cancer are often 30-40x more than from COVID, for example, and excess deaths from Alzheimers rose dramatically in many countries recently (perhaps fueled by forced isolation?) Other countries with no forced isolation still are seeing a sharp drop in deaths, even if cases rose.

I know that it is hard for Americans to see outside their current situation, but there is a lot of interesting discussion going on now about the severity of the illness etc. The general trend in Europe is cases have risen again, but deaths are very much flat.

 

[bjscheel]

People I know personally- 3. All three felt like cold/flu for a couple of days and that was it. Ages 18, 21, and 90+.

 

[Boopuff]

Zero. no one.

 

[KBoopaloo]

This. For everyone answering zero, the real answer is probably "zero that you know of." I personally tested positive a day after our Disney World trip when I came down with pretty much all the classic symptoms. I had thought I had it back in March but couldn't get a test then, so either that was another illness or I had a reinfection since it now sounds like immunity is not very long-lasting. I told my supervisor at work because my office requires it, but because we are work from home and our kids had virtual school we just isolated and didn't broadcast to others. I was already feeling pretty foolish, and feeling awful from being sick, and didn't need a whole bunch of "I told you sos" (a lot of folks in my social/family circle were pretty judgmental about us going to WDW in the first place).

My DH had no symptoms but still got a test when I turned up positive and his test came back negative, but we are assuming either the test did not pick it up from him, or maybe he had antibodies from when we were both sick back in March that did a better job of protecting him than me. Our doctor did not recommend the kids get tested but just said to assume they have it too. It has now been two weeks since we got back but are still taking precautions for at least another week just in case.

For the record, we all wore masks and sanitized our hands diligently whiel at WDW, but I can't say I'm too surprised we got it. Could fill dozens of other posts about why I wouldn't go to WDW knowing what I know now, but it is what it is.

My cousin had it as well a couple of months ago and she did tell people, but no-one else in her household had symptoms so they didn't get tested--so I'm going to guess the real case count there is higher too.

I hope you also notified the airline if you flew and the resort where you stayed so they could monitor the housekeepers who cleaned your room when you left.

 

[MomOTwins]

I hope you also notified the airline if you flew and the resort where you stayed so they could monitor the housekeepers who cleaned your room when you left.

Yes, and we went through contact tracing with the state authorities. I was responding to the topic of this thread, which is about people who you know, by explaining that few people who know us would know we had Covid.

 

[KBoopaloo]

Yes, and we went through contact tracing with the state authorities. I was responding to the topic of this thread, which is about people who you know, by explaining that few people who know us would know we had Covid.

Got it! I hope you are feeling better.

 

[katie01]

We've been discussing this on the 'non-US COVID' thread. I pointed out that unfortunately as the US dominates the world media, it's really difficult to discuss or question without being considered 'ultra right wing', or a 'covidiot', etc. But there are a lot of media reports now questioning the actions taken, and the death rates.

Daily deaths from cancer are often 30-40x more than from COVID, for example, and excess deaths from Alzheimers rose dramatically in many countries recently (perhaps fueled by forced isolation?) Other countries with no forced isolation still are seeing a sharp drop in deaths, even if cases rose.

I know that it is hard for Americans to see outside their current situation, but there is a lot of interesting discussion going on now about the severity of the illness etc. The general trend in Europe is cases have risen again, but deaths are very much flat.

Are you hearing of many cases there of long term effects in Europe, from those who have recovered from covid? I think this is probably what concerns me most (well, my highest concern is not making my elderly parents ill, but after that, it's living with possible permanent side effects). It seems like the "long haulers" as we call them here, aren't fitting into the same group as the ones at highest risk fo death either, so in some ways it feels a little more unsettling--that it could be completely random, no matter your age, prior health, fitness, how well you take care of yourself, and so on (and for those who like to pick apart posts, please don't misunderstand and think I'm saying that it's any more or less sad to have these things happen to high risk groups! I just mean that there is at least some sense of "well, I can be proactive, and eat healthy, go outside, and get exercise, and maybe it will help me if I get covid", vs seeing that even people younger than me who are marathon runners are perhaps being permanently disabled by this, which just makes me feel helpless

 

[aggiedog]

We've been discussing this on the 'non-US COVID' thread. I pointed out that unfortunately as the US dominates the world media, it's really difficult to discuss or question without being considered 'ultra right wing', or a 'covidiot', etc. But there are a lot of media reports now questioning the actions taken, and the death rates.

Daily deaths from cancer are often 30-40x more than from COVID, for example, and excess deaths from Alzheimers rose dramatically in many countries recently (perhaps fueled by forced isolation?) Other countries with no forced isolation still are seeing a sharp drop in deaths, even if cases rose.

I know that it is hard for Americans to see outside their current situation, but there is a lot of interesting discussion going on now about the severity of the illness etc. The general trend in Europe is cases have risen again, but deaths are very much flat.

Daily deaths from cancer are 30-40x higher where? When? That was true for the US in February, but not now. Since you're referencing the non-US Covid thread maybe you mean for other countries?

https://www.businessinsider.com/cha...e-or-cancer-did-on-average-per-week-in-2018-1

 

[bavaria]

Are you hearing of many cases there of long term effects in Europe, from those who have recovered from covid?

Good question! I read about it on American sites, but to be honest cannot recall much in the German media. BBC and the Guardian have had articles about it. I often read it online as people using an argument that COVID can be so dangerous, but at the same time I wonder how many of those are just exceptions? I did read a recent article in the Merkur (Munich paper) which studied UK and Italian patients and the long term effects were mostly 'fatigue' and some breathing problems 2 months afterwards. A German study said 3 percent of people with COVID had longer term impact.

There was also a rehab set up but you have to understand that the German health care system includes a heavy dependency on long term rehab or 'Kur', often at the 'spa' or 'Bad' towns. So after cancer treatment ie after chemo, surgery etc is finished, one may have six weeks at a nice hotel near a spa town with inhouse medical staff, learning about nutrition, spiritual well being, doing a lot of physical activities, building connections with others in similar situation, etc. There isn't that much info on the post-COVID rehab but it sounds like they get longer term specialised care for their specific issues.

 

[lpandorf]

I know two families of five where everyone in the house had it. All recovered. One in 50's took about a month to feel 100% better.
Neighbor's Mom age 77 died from it last week. This neighbor had to be hospitalized for it. Her daughter tested positive but no symptoms.
Now my 20 year old college daughter has it. Went back to college recently and it is spreading quickly at the university. She has flu symptoms but managing through. We are still very worried about her though because she has asthma and says harder to breath and feels like an elephant on her chest. Daughter knows a ton of students with it. Frat houses testing positive. I expect when my high school son goes back to in person class next week I'll know a lot more with it.

 

[bavaria]

Daily deaths from cancer are 30-40x higher where? When? That was true for the US in February, but not now. Since you're referencing the non-US Covid thread maybe you mean for other countries?

Correct. I actually did a quick analysis for my 'Cancer and COVID' group because there were some very fearful people in that group. (Multi-national group) Australia has about 137 cancer deaths/day, Canada 228 cancer deaths/day, Germany over 2,000 cancer deaths/day.

Total COVID deaths in Australia 652, Canada 9,120, Germany 9,363.

Again, it's really tough when we have almost two very different COVID situations going on in the world right now, and most of the 'noise' comes from the US. But there are positive signs, and I encourage reading the 'COVID and the rest of us' thread where we often post updates.