Covid Curious

[Kae]

Late to this party but was just reading this thread that dates back to the dates my group of 5 went (May 1-7) and fascinated that so many people from that time and visits since have gotten COVID. None in my party did despite none of us really masking at all and eating indoors and riding things as normal, which I was super surprised/impressed by. We are all triple vaccinated but still, we'd pretty much gone into it assuming we'd unfortunately all come back with COVID.

My two cents is that at this point you should not take a trip to WDW without accepting that there is a decent chance you'll get COVID, and that if anyone in your group is unvaccinated or medically vulnerable you should really rethink going...

We were there right after you same for us. We did not wear masks at all no covid.

 

[Pyotr]

We returned Friday from a 4 day trip to Disney. I started feeling bad Saturday afternoon. Took a test and it came back positive. My wife and kids are fine.

We knew the risks before we went.

Even though I’m shivering in bed with body aches and a cough, it was totally worth it.

 

[Minnie1222]

My two teens and I were at WDW 05/29 to 06/07. We ate indoors, did not wear masks, and carried on as though Covid didn't exist. We all tested positive within 24 - 72 hours after returning home. Both the children had a mild cough that lasted 2-3 days. I had mild sneezing and a strange knee pain that lasted for a few hours. It felt like a seasonal allergy to us.

We are triple vaxxed.

Besides the trip quoted above where we got Covid, we also went in June and October 2021 and did NOT catch anything. We were fully masked in June and partially masked in October.

 

[FtW Mike]

Like Minnie 1222 we went back in Dec 21 to Jan 22 , We are both fully vaccinated so we passed on masks. used Disney transportation whenever we could and came home fine

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

We returned Friday from a 4 day trip to Disney. I started feeling bad Saturday afternoon. Took a test and it came back positive. My wife and kids are fine.

We knew the risks before we went.

Even though I’m shivering in bed with body aches and a cough, it was totally worth it.

Are you saying you got covid at the end of May, recovered, and then infected again at the end of this month? If so, that is alarming.

 

[rangerxenos]

Are you saying you got covid at the end of May and again at the end of this month? If so, that is alarming.

The wife of a co-worker has managed to get Covid twice in two months, she's vaccinated but not boosted since she's in her 30s.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

she's vaccinated but not boosted since she's in her 30s

Her age (30s part) only matters for 2nd booster. She's been eligible and recommended to be boostered for a long time now. Only commented to clarify the "since she's in her 30s" My husband and I are in our 30s and had our booster a few days after Thanksgiving.

 

[rangerxenos]

Her age (30s part) only matters for 2nd booster. She's been eligible and recommended to be boosters for a long time now. Only commented to clarify the "since she's in her 30s). I'm in my 30s and had my booster a few days after Thanksgiving

Sorry, didn't realize that, she may have had her first booster then as I believe he said they were caught up on current vaccinations. I was shocked to find that someone could have two cases of Covid in consecutive months.

 

[Pyotr]

Are you saying you got covid at the end of May, recovered, and then infected again at the end of this month? If so, that is alarming.

In May I had symptoms after traveling. I took a rapid at home test and it was positive. My symptoms were relatively mild, allergy like symptoms.

This time I have full flu symptoms. Fever. Chills. Horrible headache. Cough. Body aches.

I either had a false positive last month or had a different, weaker strain.

I just know that it really sucks this time around.

Edit. I’m vaccinated and boosted if anyone was wondering.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Sorry, didn't realize that, she may have had her first booster then as I believe he said they were caught up on current vaccinations. I was shocked to find that someone could have two cases of Covid in consecutive months.

I edited my comment to include my husband too (had forgotten he was there too lol).

I don't remember if it was consecutive months but my husband had a coworker towards the beginning of this year have covid, recover, then got something else, recovered and then get covid again. It was about a 2 1/2 to 3 months timeframe. It's the going thought that he maybe had Delta, then got Omicron or had Omicron then got the subvariant of Omicron. In those situations you're more likely to see someone get reinfected and more quickly than in early days.

Also someone's immune system comes into play too. With my husband's coworker his immune system was hit with the first round of covid making it easier to get something else and that something else can affect how your body reacts if exposed to covid again shortly (relatively speaking that is).

I was a bit surprised too for my husband's coworker, he had been put through the wringer that's for sure.

 

[dvcgirl67]

In May I had symptoms after traveling. I took a rapid at home test and it was positive. My symptoms were relatively mild, allergy like symptoms.

This time I have full flu symptoms. Fever. Chills. Horrible headache. Cough. Body aches.

I either had a false positive last month or had a different, weaker strain.

I just know that it really sucks this time around.

Edit. I’m vaccinated and boosted if anyone was wondering.

Yep, this is what I'm hearing....that there are people getting Covid now, and having your experience of a full-on bad flu. Seems to be Omicron B4-5 doing this. My 87 and 90 year old in-laws got Omicron version 1.0... this past winter....both vaxxed and boosted once, and had relatively mild symptoms....though one got an antibody infusion...the other paxlovid.

What sucks about this time is that in pre-covid times, it was easy to get your doc to prescribe a Z-pack and even tamiflu...which we always bring with us on vacation in case we get a sinus infection, the flu...etc. Those two illnesses can give you a day or two out of commission....if you have the right meds, but not destroy your vacation. But with covid, if you happen to get covid on the way to your destination....it can wipe out your vacation and delay your return home. We're a long way away from docs prescribing paxlovid like that, and rightly so due to supply issues.

I have a customer who flew out this AM from Newark to Atlanta for a conference. She's a nurse, husband is a doctor and she texted me a pic....literally 5%-10% of people were wearing masks.

 

[Pooh2]

But with covid, if you happen to get covid on the way to your destination....it can wipe out your vacation and delay your return home. We're a long way away from docs prescribing paxlovid like that, and rightly so due to supply issues.

We had one family member in Mass and another in NH last week who called their PCP and were able to get Paxlovid without stepping foot in the office (both said they asked about comorbidities and prescribed based on that criteria).
So that may be changing.
The younger patient in his 30s had a very quick turn around, the other patient in his 60s did not find it to be helpful.

Nearly everyone in our friends/family circle, most boosted, have gotten the virus over the past 6 months.
The young uns had an easier time and quicker recovery.

 

[bakerworld]

Up until March of this year, 2022, our entire family was Covid free and then over March my brother (unvaccinated per PCP), my nephew (vaccinated and booster x2), our eldest (vaccinated) and GD tested positive. We were in Florida early February so I don't think we can attached their positivity to WDW. My sister and BIL refuse to vaccinate and they've been vacationing to the Jersey shore the entire time without becoming sick. Every time they catch a cold they've tested negative. Very confusing.

Our youngest (vaccinated) and I (vaccinated and booster x2 - second booster 5 days before leaving) went to Europe in May and both tested negative to return to the US. We were unmasked everywhere, starting at our home airport, the entire time. Two of our tour group tested positive and 2 hours later tested negative so everyone returning to the US from our group was able to return home.

I find the whole Covid experience very inconsistent. We're cruising in October and I am hoping DCL stops requiring any testing. I just don't see the point of the testing.

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

In May I had symptoms after traveling. I took a rapid at home test and it was positive. My symptoms were relatively mild, allergy like symptoms.

This time I have full flu symptoms. Fever. Chills. Horrible headache. Cough. Body aches.

I either had a false positive last month or had a different, weaker strain.

I just know that it really sucks this time around.

Edit. I’m vaccinated and boosted if anyone was wondering.

I'm willing to bet you caught the tail end of BA.2 and the beginning of spread of BA.4/.5.
Ugh. It's disheartening that it appears that partial immunity played little to no role. I hope you feel better soon.

 

[rangerxenos]

Yep, this is what I'm hearing....that there are people getting Covid now, and having your experience of a full-on bad flu. Seems to be Omicron B4-5 doing this. My 87 and 90 year old in-laws got Omicron version 1.0... this past winter....both vaxxed and boosted once, and had relatively mild symptoms....though one got an antibody infusion...the other paxlovid.

What sucks about this time is that in pre-covid times, it was easy to get your doc to prescribe a Z-pack and even tamiflu...which we always bring with us on vacation in case we get a sinus infection, the flu...etc. Those two illnesses can give you a day or two out of commission....if you have the right meds, but not destroy your vacation. But with covid, if you happen to get covid on the way to your destination....it can wipe out your vacation and delay your return home. We're a long way away from docs prescribing paxlovid like that, and rightly so due to supply issues.

I have a customer who flew out this AM from Newark to Atlanta for a conference. She's a nurse, husband is a doctor and she texted me a pic....literally 5%-10% of people were wearing masks.

I am still wearing masks indoors everywhere except work (don't wear one in my cubicle, but wear one in meetings) unless I'm eating. Too many people I know getting sick.

 

[nancipants]

Yep, this is what I'm hearing....that there are people getting Covid now, and having your experience of a full-on bad flu. Seems to be Omicron B4-5 doing this. My 87 and 90 year old in-laws got Omicron version 1.0... this past winter....both vaxxed and boosted once, and had relatively mild symptoms....though one got an antibody infusion...the other paxlovid.

What sucks about this time is that in pre-covid times, it was easy to get your doc to prescribe a Z-pack and even tamiflu...which we always bring with us on vacation in case we get a sinus infection, the flu...etc. Those two illnesses can give you a day or two out of commission....if you have the right meds, but not destroy your vacation. But with covid, if you happen to get covid on the way to your destination....it can wipe out your vacation and delay your return home. We're a long way away from docs prescribing paxlovid like that, and rightly so due to supply issues.

My husband tested positive last Wednesday (June 15) and I tested positive that Friday (June 17). We tested my son on the 17th and again on the 24rd and he was negative both times. So we don't know if he was asymptomatic first and gave it to us, or if we got it from Disney and he got lucky. Anyway, we both were pretty sick the first few days and then had lingering symptoms for a week. I lost my voice and my husband's ears got clogged, so we were quite the pair. We only both tested negative yesterday (13+ days for my husband and 11+ days for me). It suuuuuucked and people who say it's nothing are either lying or very lucky. Plus since we stayed positive for so long, we couldn't bring my son to daycare even though he was negative. It was very disruptive and I'm not eager to get it again.

 

[Mango7100]

My husband tested positive last Wednesday (June 15) and I tested positive that Friday (June 17). We tested my son on the 17th and again on the 24rd and he was negative both times. So we don't know if he was asymptomatic first and gave it to us, or if we got it from Disney and he got lucky. Anyway, we both were pretty sick the first few days and then had lingering symptoms for a week. I lost my voice and my husband's ears got clogged, so we were quite the pair. We only both tested negative yesterday (13+ days for my husband and 11+ days for me). It suuuuuucked and people who say it's nothing are either lying or very lucky. Plus since we stayed positive for so long, we couldn't bring my son to daycare even though he was negative. It was very disruptive and I'm not eager to get it again.

We tested positive on antigen for a long time too….definitely not the 5 days for isolation guidelines. DHs work makes you stay home for the full 10 days it’s no option to return after 5 days.

 

[nancipants]

We tested positive on antigen for a long time too….definitely not the 5 days for isolation guidelines. DHs work makes you stay home for the full 10 days it’s no option to return after 5 days.

We work from home so thankfully that wasn't an issue, but I ended up having to take sick time anyway since my son was home.

 

[El_Aldo23]

Hi All
We're flying from Manchester to Orlando on Monday.
Just checking, do kids have to self-isolate for 5 days when arriving in Orlando??

Virgin have not told me anything about that and I'm hearing rumblings now....

 

[Jaymarkm]

Went to Disney mid-June and shiny new Omicron got 2 of the 5 of us. (We weren’t careful at all, honestly). Then 2 of us who didn’t get it there went on college visit/wedding combo and got it. (Pretty much everyone who I know who went to that wedding got it.) That leaves 1 of us, my 11 year old. We are all vaxxed, boosted, most of us had it before, etc. but this strain just doesn’t care. Shiny new Covid is a jerk.