Drat. Covid.

[nancipants]

My husband and I caught it two weeks ago. My son didn't get it then. He started coughing this weekend so we tested him this morning and now he's positive.

 

[DLgal]

Oh wow sorry to hear about all that. I was thinking about it all this weekend and just how random it is (you can be in the house and sleeping with someone who has it and never get it and then go out to dinner or something where someone has it and BAM). Anyway, you were one of the people I was thinking about who had done all these things--was it DL four times??--and nothing! My uneducated theory on this is that there are those people who are superspreaders. We heard about them a lot in the beginning of COVID but not lately. I think many people get COVID and they just don't shed a lot. But there are those that just have some ability to shed and transmit. I think the guy in my office who infected 5 people on the same day was one of them!! But I somehow never spread it to my husband. And of the 5 people in my group who got it, we never spread it to anyone in our household. It's just weird.

Oh gosh, I've been to Disneyland like 50 times since it reopened. As a family, once we were all vaccinated and boosted, we stopped wearing masks where it wasn't required. I've had like 4 or 5 colds since Covid started, but managed to never test positive this whole time. It was becoming a running joke in our house that I was immune to JUST covid, but caught every other bug.

I think you're onto something with the superspreader theory. Given the short incubation period with this variant, I caught this on Thursday, and on that day, we went to 2 places: the allergy shot clinic (everyone masked in there) and Disneyland. At one point, we had a child behind us in an enclosed line coughing up a storm. It was a wet, rattling cough (just like I have now). I got a bad feeling when I heard that cough. Of course, I'll never know, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was it.

When my husband had it last summer, his symptoms started very suddenly and we tested him right away. We then immediately masked and isolated him and I went to town sanitizing the house, opening all the windows, etc. He stayed in that room for 10 days. We went to great lengths to not catch it, and it worked. We have managed my positive test similarly.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

My daughter was directly exposed at work last week. Her boyfriend tested positive this weekend. He’s vaccinated but not boosted. My daughter is testing negative so far. She’s vaccinated and boosted.

 

[karen4546]

Take care. My husband tested positive for Covid on Saturday.

I have had my booster - he has not.

He has flu like symptoms and his legs hurt. I told him that he must get his doctor to make sure he does not have or get a blood clot.

 

[mumto3girls]

I know so many people who avoided it all this time, were vaccinated and boosted at least once and tested positive since Memorial Day. Just in my small circle that includes me, my DH, two of my sisters and one BIL, plus our tenant and her DH. And other than my sister who most likely got it from her DH and me who got it from my DH and our tenant who got it from her DH, we weren’t spreading it to each other.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My DD got it at WDW a couple of weeks ago, most likely from a kid in line on the pool slide who was hacking away. But who knows. She’s still in recovery with various symptoms remaining.

I just want to clarify something. Even though symptoms of Covid can be mild, there can still be cellular damage from it. It’s pretty rare, but it happens. We see these problems in the hospital when things go bad.

The other thing is that it doesn’t seem to matter whether you’re vaccinated and/or boosted as far as catching Covid goes. Perhaps it does offer protection from serious illness.

And at home tests may not show the latest variants until you’re pretty sick, if at all. It used to be back in 2020 they told you if you’ve got symptoms and have been exposed, to presume you have it. That still stands today.

I agree with pp’s about getting back to basics. If you’re sick, stay home. Don’t go out to restaurants and on airplanes so everyone else can catch what you have, even if it’s not Covid.

 

[tvguy]

Kind of interesting. Vaccines help make sure people don't get as sick. Home testing means cases no longer are getting counting in official tallies. But apparently Health Officials test sewage and at least in California, they say we have more covid now that we ever have had.

 

[DLgal]

Kind of interesting. Vaccines help make sure people don't get as sick. Home testing means cases no longer are getting counting in official tallies. But apparently Health Officials test sewage and at least in California, they say we have more covid now that we ever have had.

Yeah, I mean, I guess I could report my positive home test, but not sure how. I didn't bother getting a PCR. I have symptoms and a test with a faint line. Good enough for me, but I imagine the real counts are at least double what is being reported, if not even higher.

 

[DLgal]

My DD got it at WDW a couple of weeks ago, most likely from a kid in line on the pool slide who was hacking away. But who knows. She’s still in recovery with various symptoms remaining.

I just want to clarify something. Even though symptoms of Covid can be mild, there can still be cellular damage from it. It’s pretty rare, but it happens. We see these problems in the hospital when things go bad.

The other thing is that it doesn’t seem to matter whether you’re vaccinated and/or boosted as far as catching Covid goes. Perhaps it does offer protection from serious illness.

And at home tests may not show the latest variants until you’re pretty sick, if at all. It used to be back in 2020 they told you if you’ve got symptoms and have been exposed, to presume you have it. That still stands today.

I agree with pp’s about getting back to basics. If you’re sick, stay home. Don’t go out to restaurants and on airplanes so everyone else can catch what you have, even if it’s not Covid.

I was honestly surprised to get a positive test on day one of SUPER mild symptoms (I literally only had an itchy throat). It did take 8 minutes for the line to appear.

I know the earlier Omicron strains took a long time to show up on home tests, but everyone I know who has caught it in the last month has tested positive immediately upon developing symptoms, and did not have to take numerous tests in order to confirm it.

 

[aprilgail]

Someone at my moms funeral gave me and my brother covid (we were not wearing masks) and also 3 other people there who were all wearing n95 masks (and all three vaxxed and boosted)- so weird, no one else got it. My daughter and her fiancé were next to me at the funeral the whole time and didn't get it but 2 weeks later went to key west and 5 out of the 7 got covid- all 7 vaxxed and boosted.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I was honestly surprised to get a positive test on day one of SUPER mild symptoms (I literally only had an itchy throat). It did take 8 minutes for the line to appear.

I know the earlier Omicron strains took a long time to show up on home tests, but everyone I know who has caught it in the last month has tested positive immediately upon developing symptoms, and did not have to take numerous tests in order to confirm it.

DD had to take four tests before she got the faint line. Most people probably would’ve given up by then. There have also been quite a few stories posted here saying they were negative for a while, too. Sounds like things are evolving with the different variants.

Your Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

 

[Pea-n-Me]

@DLgal It could be, too, that there are different variants where you are and in FL or where I am, etc. Who knows!

 

[DLgal]

DD had to take four tests before she got the faint line. Most people probably would’ve given up by then. There have also been quite a few stories posted here saying they were negative for a while, too. Sounds like things are evolving with the different variants.

Your Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

Yeah, my younger sister had to take like 5 home tests (with symptoms) before she got a positive, back in January. Same deal with her husband and kids.

My other sister's young son tested positive in early June, and his test was positive the first day he had symptoms. My sister and her husband felt fine until 3 days later, and when they tested were positive immediately as well.

I've been sick with colds numerous times since early 2020 and have taken SO many home tests, and never got a positive one. I did also take PCR tests all those times, at 3-5 days after symptom onset, because we have close contact with a high risk individual and we were taking no chances of passing it along to her. So I know for sure all my other illnesses were NOT covid. For that reason, I don't like the "if you have any symptoms, presume you have covid" advice. I get the sentiment, but after a series of negative home tests, at some point you have to just remember there are still other viruses circulating. By the 5th day of negative home tests, I called it and resumed going out in public (masked if I still had symptoms).

 

[DLgal]

@DLgal It could be, too, that there are different variants where you are and in FL or where I am, etc. Who knows!

No doubt!

 

[ronandannette]

Kind of interesting. Vaccines help make sure people don't get as sick. Home testing means cases no longer are getting counting in official tallies. But apparently Health Officials test sewage and at least in California, they say we have more covid now that we ever have had.

Up until the past few weeks, this was true here too. Omicron has been kicking butt since late last winter. And this province has had more Covid fatalities since February 2022 than in the entire year of 2020.

 

[NotUrsula]

Same here. DH came down with it very quickly after a flight, but was in denial all day until he came home sick and DD made him test before she would let him past the stairs: + . DD and I tested negative that day, but I went + the following day, though I'm mostly asymptomatic (only a slight tickle in my throat). DD has dodged it so far, but she's isolating in her room to avoid the parental vectors. (DH is very bad at isolating; I keep catching him sneaking down to do laundry b/c he's bored, and he also is getting up and making himself breakfast before the rest of us are awake. Not good for me because I'm relegated to the couch 15 feet from the kitchen, so I'm now sleeping with an N95 mask on.) I'm double-boosted, but DH only got the first booster; hadn't yet got around to the 2d one.

Both of us were given Paxlovid because of our ages, DH is just finishing it (and now feeling well, though still +), and I got my scrip yesterday morning. Unfortunately, I found out after only one dose that I cannot tolerate Paxlovid. Not only did I have the world's worst case of Paxlovid Mouth, I started vomiting to the point of dry heaves, developed severe muscle cramps, and started itching like mad. (In my case, the cure is definitely worse than the disease so far.)

 

[TB'sWidow]

I too got Covid back on New Year’s Day after dodging it for two years. I have been vaccinated early on since I work for the school system. I was extremely sick for almost two weeks, it took me a month to really feel better. I hope you don’t get it

 

[jo-jo]

If I took a test and nothing happened I would assume I messed it up and try again. No way would I do four tests.

What's really stinks is you can get covid again.. Early on , if you got I think people thought "well that's done", but nooooo you still need to worry about it.

 

[holden]

I just got it for the first time. I was sick in bed for about 2 days, then felt yucky for another three. Tested twice while sick and both were negative.

I thought I had a sinus infection because I just wasn't getting better. Got an antibiotic and felt better within 48hrs.

DD19 then got sick. She tested two days into her sickness and it was positive. I tested for the heck of it (even though I was better) and it was positive.

I'm assuming I had it all along and didn't know it.

I do have a lingering cough, but other than that I'm fine.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

The person in question HAD attended a massive rock concert in the last 48 hours... I guess he might have encouraged it And no, no-one there wore masks!