I am pretty sure I got this bug from my daughter in January. She works in a Hospital and got it from her friend that works in a different Hospital. This was the first time I had been sick in over 20 years, for me it wasn’t that bad, my wife was much worse and my daughters co-workers that got it, some were REAL BAD!, but everyone recovered in a couple weeks.
My daughter believes she got it in early January as well, before it was identified very well. She and her husband were very sick for over 2 weeks and had the symptoms that I've seen published.
re; I am pretty sure I got this bug from my daughter in January.
The problem with Covid-19 is the symptoms mimic the flu.
So, we will never know if you had it or not.
The death rate, for those under 50, for this seems to be relatively low.... once you get over 60 it shoots up, and over 70 and 80 you are you looking at 20% or higher mortality rate.... .
No that doesn’t mean you can’t be perfectly healthy 20 year old and not wind up dead... it just means the odds of you dying from it statistically very low.
What I would like to see is how many younger cases are “CRITICAL”, because even if you survive, if you are on a ventilator for weeks, I don’t care what age you are, that’s some serious long term damage.... Doesn’t mean younger folks won’t eventually get better... but even if you survive, after being on a ventilator for weeks you are going to have long road ahead of you.
From what I have read, and I am no way pretending to be an expert, but it appears if you wind up on an ventilator, your odds of survival are in the 15%-20% range or so if my memory serves, if that... So if you reach the point you are put on a ventilator, odds are NOT in your favor that you are going to survive at that point.
Sad, but apparent reality of this, at this point.
I personally believe a LOT more people have had that, than any of the numbers are currently showing... This bug’s been here “officially” since January, but probably before that, and no testing of any serious numbers happened until march... so lots of folks had this, got told they had the flu, and life went on for the majority of them.
Similar experience at the end of December. My daughter got the symptoms a day after me. Both of us had the flu shot. I never get the flu until this weird bout of illness. One day of a severe sore throat, several days of a low grade fever, fatigue, and overall body aches. Cough and wheeze. Recovered in about a week. I would love to get an antibody test.