Fortunately, no one in my immediate family has, yet, that we know of. A good friend of ours was here with me and my wife yesterday for quite awhile. He had a fever on Sunday, but not yesterday, Tuesday, when he was here. He didn't have any of the other "classic" symptoms, taste and smell were fine, etc, but because of Sunday's fever he went and got tested on Monday. His test results came back positive today, Wednesday, and now he's in the hospital. My wife and I will get tested today, quarantine for two weeks, then get tested again. We'll see what happens. My brother is a Nephrologist, (kidney specialist), in West Virginia, after being at Walter Reed for many years, and has had several of his patients die from it, along with many that have survived. There is not a consistent pattern. A 36 year old otherwise healthy man can die from it, while a frail 80 year old woman on dialysis along with other additional medical problems can survive. We're aware of many folks in this area that have had it, mostly friends of friends, including a local church that it swept through, but none of them have died that we're aware of. A cousin of mine and his wife, and other more distant relations and friends of theirs, have had it, but recovered. Bottom line, it's not a fake, it's real, and it can be deadly. Everybody stay safe.
Yep, I had it from april through june. 2 weeks on the ventilator. Had to have plasma given to me to get me to recover. Lost 70 pounds during the time i was in the hospital.
@BP: oh no... I'm hoping you guys stay out of the woods! It's true, BP, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to who it affects and in what way. For example, I read somewhere that people who have Neanderthal genes are a lot more likely to suffer from respiratory issues when they get COVID. @Unitop: Oh dear... I'm so glad you made it through! Do you have any lingering symptoms or weirdness, still? We both think we may have had in early in March because we both got sick (my wife is a teacher had some traveling students at the time) but we've had no tests. I wanted to do the anti-body test by means of giving blood around April or May, but turns out I can't give blood because I grew up in Europe and they're afraid someone may have been exposed to swine-flu or mad cow, so they won't allow you to give blood in the US. So I still don't know if we had it, retrospectively. But at least 10 of my American family have had it for sure (tested), 4 of which are having it currently. And of family overseas I know of at least 5 cases, among whom my father and sister but they got over it pretty quickly. Two of my American family (currently sick) got exposed in an Edward Jones office, where it is corporate policy to wear masks, but of course neither my family nor the employees there wore any. After they went in, they got an email or something stating that the employee tested positive for COVID. Well, she was tested already and awaiting results *while* she "helped" my family members and was working anyway! East Texas, home of Louie Gohmert and COVID (and election) denial. Someone get me out of here...
Still some aches and pains, but they call us longhaulers who continue to have problems after the initial onset. On positive note though, red cross wants me to donate plasma since im positive for antibodies.
I sure hope those symptoms clear up soon. And does this mean that, if you get the vaccine at some point, that it wouldn't even alter your symptoms since the symptoms are probably due to lingering damage from COVID? That's the scary part, as it looks like we're just going to get a fourth and a fifth wave before major parts of the population actually get access to the vaccines. I heard about this 12-year old boy who had COVID and recovered but then had teeth falling out, presumably because COVID caused damage to the blood vessels or something. Scary.
Not yet, our tests were just 28 hours ago, but I don't expect them to be positive, yet, since it's so close to when we were exposed, about a day. We plan to quarantine for 10 days, then get another test right around Christmas. Those test results will really be the ones that let us know if we dodged Covid or not. I believe that Covid's incubation period is 2 - 14 days. Of course in the meantime, if we start having symptoms... On the positive side, our friend, who is 80 and has many other underlying health issues, was in tremendous pain when he checked into the hospital Tuesday night, but is supposed to be going home tonight or tomorrow, so he's doing well. He won't be considered safe until he has received a negative test result, (maybe two?), but it's a step in the right direction. We're hoping his sister, who lives with him, doesn't come down with it. If she does, as I understand it, then he'll need to continue to stay quarantined until she tests negative as well, to be sure he doesn't transmit it to anyone else.
Fortunately, my wife and I did not contract the virus. Our friend, who started the scare, has also come thru with no lasting effects, that we know of at this time. My wife had lunch with him today. That he survived is somewhat of a miracle. He's 80, and only has 15% functionality of one kidney. The other kidney is still in place, but does absolutely nothing. Based on tests once he was in the hospital, it seems that he had a stoke sometime the previous weekend before he was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. Once there, tests also confirmed that he had COVID, the flu, and pneumonia all at the same time. He never was put on an respirator. He was at the first hospital for a week or so, was sent home where he stayed for most of a week. Then he went back to a different hospital where he got much better care, with better equipment. He was there for over a week, then back home for a few days, back to the second hospital for a few days again, primarily to continue treating the pneumonia, and has now been home again for a few days. He is now feeling much better, but tires easily since he lost quite a bit of weight during his illness. Overall, quite the ordeal.
Hope everyone its fine...but y must say some of my belief.This virus was created[some in China,and some from somewhere else].Its possible to be moore than one virus[but whit the same simptomes and the same signature from RT-PCR].Device RT-PCR was not built for diagnose...just for medical research,please see bibliography of inventor Kary Banks Mullis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis. And now WHO say that chinese researchers from wuhan laboratory was bite many time from bats that they studies...lies...lies...its a huge conspiration here...people and country whit big money and interest are involved.
Please remember that RT-PCR work only whit windows7 and windows10....The second big privat investor in WHO after USA[that was withdrawn] is BIL GATES.
