I may have had a mild case back in March, but the symptoms were too mild for me to be tested. Body aches, fatigue, upper respiratory symptoms. Stayed home, treated it as I would a cold, and it was completely gone within one week.
We live in Maine. Don’t know anyone here that has had it. A relative of our son’s wife in NH, elderly with a variety of issues and in a nursing home, got it and died a couple of months ago. The home had a number of fatalities.
W. PA area here. I know of 2 young men that got it.
#1 works at a hospital, and got it right at the beginning of the bad outbreaks. Super healthy guy, but they tested everyone every day. He had ZERO symptoms.
#2 NOT as healthy a lifestyle, burned the candle at both ends and has a side gig as a DJ in clubs (before they were shut down). Bad enough to be placed in Intensive Care but good enough to post on social media all day. He got the antibody plasma & was better a few days after that.
A friend has a friend that had it. My husband knew someone that had and died. (I think from the doctor treating him). My granddaughter’s Step grandmother, father and brother had but not her.
An acquaintance whose wife died.
She was probably in her 60s with no underlying conditions.
He has since been on local TV in favor of a mask mandate.
Other than that, just a few musicians who I've 'known' peripherally, we were told that's what they died from, who knows the real cause.
My mom is 93 and in a New York nursing home. She contracted the virus and beat it shortly after recovering from a collapsed lung
I know of one. A CNA(nurses aid) in the hospital I work at in southern NJ. She had underlying health issues and had previously refused to be tested.
Mild sense of “coming down with something.” Key was losing sense of smell (a very subtle symptom if you aren’t deliberately checking). Felt fine 2 weeks later.
I live in New York. Six family members had it. One is still hospitalized-not ventilated. A good friend died of it on Easter Sunday. I know 15 people who died from it. I know another 12 who had it. I tested negative for the antibodies. There are dozens of family, friends, neighbors, colleagues who have lost their jobs because of the shut down. The economic devastation is horrible. Many businesses have shut down permanently. This is an awful year that right now seems like it will never end.
Western PA, 70 yrs old lots of friends and acquaintances, I know no one who has had covid and no one I know knows anyone who has had it.
I’d participate but I’d rather NOT have the CDC, NIH and the GBR NHS harvesting my information for fear-porn.
95% sure my wife and I both had it in early May.
She got it first. ( she was doing all the shopping). She had a bad headache, very sore throat for about a week. Plus extreme fatigue. She had a fever and chills for 3 days... then, she started getting better. All was gone in 7 days.
Two weeks after she had symptoms, I had the same ... except, no headache.
I’m 61, overweight, but in good health. Also, I’m a choir singer with very large lung capacity. Wife is 56, not overweight and in good health. She rarely ever gets sick.
It was bad, for several days. Like a bad flu. I was worried about her. But, after we both recovered, no ongoing issues at all.
I’ve had a Covid test since, was negative. Will have an antibody text next week.
I know several people that have had it, and within my family three have had it, one has died.
My wife knows two people who had it here in rural Illinois. Both are healthy and in their 50s, and they had flu-like symptoms for several days and recovered. A nursing home in our area had 5 or 6 residents die from COVID (or at least they SAID it was the cause). Several weeks later, the same nursing home celebrated about 10 residents who survived after testing positive.
My uncle in law died of COVID-19 but he’s been in declining health for years so the virus just went in for the final blow.
Northern Virginia. My co-worker and his 60-something mother (a nurse) contracted it in April. She is a legal immigrant from Nigeria. He is a black man in his 30’s with a family history of hypertension. Neither were hospitalized. He said he felt awful for a few days, then decided to get out and walk in the sun every day. He said he started feeling better every day and in about 2 weeks felt 100%.
He also said that they recoded him as 2 separate cases when he was tested twice.
My nephew, about 50 years old, tested positive about a month ago. He works in Mexico, just across the border from San Diego. Was really sick for about a week. He’s back to work now but still a bit “hungover.”
My brother from NYC got it bad. Stomach ache for two days and a runny nose for as long.