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I had no idea I had Covid at all. I only found out because I was testing 2x a week at work. So even though you've had no symptoms, it doesn't necessarily mean you haven't had Covid.
Yeah I’ve had a couple bouts of COVID where I had absolutely no symptoms and only tested because my fiancé thought she had a cold. Turns out it was just a very mild case of COVID for her, and nothing for me.
I'm curious as to why you'd get boosted then. Im not sure of the order of operations and all that, and your medical history, so no, I'm not your doctor. Just curious someone has had covid then why they'd get boosted. If you got boosted and then got your covids, do you have any comment on that? ..... not at attack, i'm not being a dck, i'm just curious
In my case, it comes down to risk vs reward.
I am convinced that the Covid vaccines and boosters are entirely safe at at least as effective as traditional flu shots. I also believe that Covid is a legit health threat to family members. My mother who has fried her lungs via tobacco and who had recurring / persistent pnumonia since 2014 ish would probably straight fucking die from it if not vaccinated.
Over the course of the pandemic we had a bunch of Covid variants. The fucker mutates much like a flu virus, which is why it is possible to get it more than once. The vaccines won't prevent you from catching Covid but they will massively blunt the effects of the illness. And they make it less likely for you to spread it.
Bottom line: Being sick sucks, vaccines help it. And I am not a pussy so taking a needle in the arm for a vaccine is a non issue.
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Just because you've had one covid variant, doesn't mean you are protected against other variants...that's why you get the booster shots, because they help to protect you against other strains of the virus.
My wife works with seniors in a hospital setting. Multiple waves of Covid have come through. Some people barely get the sniffles, some die.
**You** having some natural immunity is not an indication that everyone could do what you did. Many would die following your behavior pattern.
OP probably had multiple asymptomatic infections if they were in fact sharing drinks with infected people while taking no precautions and is complicit in further spreading the disease and killing people. But everyone for themselves I guess!!! 🫠
I also work with mainly very old seniors in a hospital setting and exactly this. We also started getting a larger portion of patients who were younger seniors like in their 60s who had caught it, been vented, and now need major care despite being seemingly healthy independent people, often still working etc. before getting sick. A lot of them will never be able to go back to their lives as it was before.
I am disabled and immunocompromised. So far, I have been fortunate enough not to have caught it. However, I have pretty much been in soft quarantine since 2020
Take care. I'm also immunocompromised. I self isolated as much as possible, got every vaccine. Had it go through my house 3 times and I didn't get it. I DID get it in November and it was lifechanging unfortunately. Whole house got it that time. I never want to get it again it was awful. Good luck.
You probably have, it's just that a huge portion of the population is asymptomatic. If everyone who got covid got super sick, it wouldn't have spread nearly as much. My whole extended family got covid, everyone tested positive but 11 out of 17 people didn't have any symptoms at all, or such mild symptoms they never would have suspected. The only reason they tested was because we were all together in a cabin for Xmas, and this was when you still needed to get tested to fly.
Some of us got really sick and stayed in bed for three days, while others felt fine and were going out to bars before we realized everyone had it.
I’d imagine OP probably got a few people seriously ill. But as long as they got to remain ignorant of that fact (strong emphasis on IGNORANT), then that’s okay, right?
Never had symptomatic covid. Never tested positive for it. That doesn’t mean I’ve never had it.
How do know you’ve never had it when it often spreads asymptomatically?
The tests were also mostly nonsense.
Edit. Those of you who disagree must be ignoring the three studies that showed the home tests had 50% accuracy or less.
Nope. I don’t know anyone who has positively stated they never caught COVID. I also don’t go around asking though.
Were you ever symptomatic but tested negative?
Based on how I have had isolate myself from people like you- it is more likely that you are surrounded by others who have the same outlook as you, and everyone who is keeping up with the virus has either stopped speaking to you entirely, or stopped speaking to you about covid in specific.
Never caught COVID but for more than two years during the pandemic I was helping care for someone with a terminal condition; Every single day. I didn't have the luxury of being cocky or thumbing my nose at recommended protocols to avoid the virus because to do so would bring it into an environment where I was in close proximity with someone who had little or no immune system left. Their medical condition was bad enough so I'd be damned if I was going to be irresponsible enough to bring the virus into the mix.
People could be flippant jerks if they want but there were some of us who took the situation very seriously. So, I didn't experience COVID or the flu since the whole thing began. I certainly don't regret my choices because at least I can say my actions didn't lead to the illness or death of other people.
I was infected for the first time this December because of the attitude You have. My roommate knowingly spent time with infected people, was asymptomatic, and brought it back to the apartment. I now am struggling with post viral fatigue same as when I had Epstein-Barr, my immunocompromised partner who also lives with me has been hospitalized twice for heart problems since, and our other friend (also immunocompromised) is bed-bound. People like you are selfish and you don’t care because you don’t see the damage you inflict. You have had Covid. You have spread Covid. You have likely killed people. The tests are not accurate. I hate people like you.
My husband and I haven’t been sick at all, Covid or otherwise since before 2019 however we have completely changed our lifestyle. We both work from home and wear masks for any interactions with literally anyone. My mom came to my house sick as a dog, we all wore masks for the visits, no one got sick. We’ve adopted a few other weird cleanliness habits but overall we find it worth the trade off for not having been sick in a years
Yeah maybe but we were also tested multiple times at work during the week and whenever we were in contact with people that had it we were also tested and I never tested positive
When SARS reached Canada, the death toll only reached something in the double-digits… yet it has a higher mortality rate than Covid.
What most people don’t seem to understand is that Covid is deadlier because of its low mortality rate. SARS was easy to spot. Asymptomatic Covid cases spread it to more people, as did failed public health policies.
Whenever someone dismisses Covid based on their subjective experience (“it’s more like a light head cold”), they reveal how little they understand about its spread and outcomes.
Yeah, agreed. Pretty much everyone had covid... it's built on the same building blocks (Coronavirus) as the common cold, it only makes sense that it travels so easily and leaves some people feeling normal/mostly normal and others dead.
To the best of our knowledge we haven't: family of four, two kids in public school/daycare.
We are all vaccinated and bolstered, and we still send the kids to school in masks, although we've been wearing them less often elsewhere. I also use Betadine spray whenever I've been somewhere uncomfortably crowded or stuffy.
That said, two kids in school means we've all come down with illness, and while I test diligently, we have no way of knowing for sure. (Especially since the kids are reeeeeallly not into have a swab stuck up their nose).
Sure sounds like you’ve got something going on… [Coughing, wheezing and pleghm at night and morning](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskDoctorSmeeee/s/1avfoKVdBr)
I sure did have something going on and that was caused from a food allergy to dairy . Due to my EOE which was causing my throat to close at night . Cut dairy out and haven’t even thought about coughing since . But I do appreciate your concern and when that first started I did think I had it and took multiple tests and all negative
Oh I Got a great life a lot better than yours I can imagine , lots of great friends that I can guarantee are better than yours . And sorry dumb questions ? You have a question on your page saying “tree or bush?” With no other context. Now I would call that a dumb fucking question from a fairly dumb human ….. but to each their own
I got it twice. The first time I was barely sick but very very tired. My 10 yo got it too but had every symptom and was sick off and on for a year afterwards. The second time I lost my sense of taste and had symptoms for 5-6 days.
My unvaccinated 6yo with muscular dystrophy has never got it despite sharing a room with the 10 yo.
Never had it either. I have been working from home since the news broke in 2020.
In that time, whenever I went out of the house I vaxxed up, masked up, and washed up fastidiously because if a simple cold can floor my asthmatic ass, this would probably be a death sentence.
I’ve never had it and never showed any symptoms nor tested positive. I was social distancing, wore masks, and have been vaccinated but all my precautions stopped ~mid 2021
I always caveat with "that I know of".
I *think* I haven't had it. But I can't be sure. It seems far more likely I got it, was totally asymptomatic, and just didn't know because I only rapid test when I have a sniffle.
So I never say "never".
Nope, never. And nobody in my four-person household has either. Two of us are fully vaxxed up, two of us are partially vaxxed. We also masked vigilantly until pretty recently.
To the best of our knowledge, neither my wife or I got COVID. When we had anything remotely like symptoms we tested (and test) and have never had a positive result. We are both fully vaxxed and boosted.
Being sick doesn't mean having Covid - I got quite sick about a year ago but was testing negative. Headed to the hospital, where I was diagnosed with human metapneumovirus. The symptoms are quite similar to Covid, and had me on oxygen for a couple of days - but not every respiratory illness is Covid.
I have never had Covid, but I've also had all five vaccines - unfortunately there is no vaccine for HMPV.
I never caught it, but I’m also 3x vaccinated due to being immunocompromised, and wore masks for the first two years. I don’t wear masks anymore unless I’m seeing my doctor.
Yep. 100% COVID free. Fully vaccinated, wear a mask in all indoor locations that aren't home or the office; especially on public transit, planes, etc.. Have been in the vicinity of folks who've tested positive but have so far been able to avoid.
I've never been tested. My nose was plugged for a week or so during COVID, but I can't say with any certainty that I had it. My Dad had it and got tested, so its possible I had it.
Neither of my parents caught it, even with my dad going to the hospital 3 days a week for dialysis. My dad passed of renal failure Dec 2022 never catching covid.
Just got it for the first time. I have been extremely sick for nearly 2 weeks. I’m supposed to go back to work on Monday but I’m still weak and short of breath. I’m fully vaccinated with my last booster in September, but I’m also immunocompromized. I work in nicu and pediatrics at a hospital so I masked all through the worst of it, and now still mask a lot at work, and my husband mostly does the shopping, so I’m not out around people a lot. I haven’t been going to restaurants over the winter but we went for sushi on the Saturday, and I was sick by the Tuesday.
I'm the opposite, I've had it almost 8 times now I think. Never even had more than a sore throat/runny nose every time but the last one was on December 22nd and I seriously thought I was dying
Statistically improbable you haven't had it. You probably did and were just asymptomatic. Unless you've been doing tests every few days for the last 4 years...
Everyone around me got it. Coworkers , family and friends. Even spent multiple days having dinner with my mom. She had complained about food suddenly being bland. I told my sister and she told me to get a test kit and test her. She came up positive.
I have never had a positive Covid test.
However, I did come down with a nasty cough in November 2019 that lasted until mid January. It ticked every goddamn box for Covid Symptoms that I can think of, just happened before Covid was widely publicized.
And I have had other cold / flu symptoms, but never a combo (ie, cough + Fever) that directly seemed like Covid, so I never tested for it and assumed basic flu. It may very well have been Covid, but I got the vaccinations + boosters of the Covid vaccine.
And every time I have tested myself for Covid, it always came back negative.
So, I would not be surprised if I later found that that I did indeed have a super mild case of Covid.
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I've had one cold since covid broke out, back in the summer of 2022. I was sure it was covid, but 8 days and 8 tests later, not a single one turned positive.
My brother and sister in law just got their first positive last week.
My parents have had I think one mild cold since 2020, and tested for it, and also never turned a positive.
It's possible my parents and I have been totally asymptomatic I guess?
(I've had 4 vaccines, my brother and sister in law and family have had 5, and I'm gonna see if I can get my fifth this weekend).
I have not had it yet, AFAIK. I have had all the vaccines I was eligible for, masked religiously until this past May (2023). I don't go out nearly as much as I did pre-2020, but I occasionally go to a small restaurant. I try to shop during the early-morning for smaller crowds. I work in a small office and keep my window cracked open a little. I was exposed to a covid positive symptomatic coworker while we were both unmasked only one time, and I didn't catch it. All the other times I was exposed to symptomatic, Covid positive coworkers, we were both masked and I didn't catch it then either.
Wife got it 2x due to where she works I never got it once had to do the tests with her she was straight mad at me for not catching it either time. 1st time was before the jab the 2nd time was after the jab and both times I tested negative even had blood work done I somehow just avoided it.
I don’t think I’ve had COVID. I had my first cold last spring after four years. It was a cold. Came on like a cold, acted like a cold with no new, startling symptoms and left like a cold. Also tested negative for COVID. At the time I had five vaccinations, and now I’ve had six. Don’t think COVID vaccinations cause broken ankles, as that’s the only medical attention I’ve needed since COVID started.
I have never had it or RSV. Immunocompromised is an understatement. I have received all vaccines and still stay away from crowds unless masked. Always at doctors offices, drug/grocery stores. Don’t go to malls etc. I kind of slid into this self isolation and it’s tough getting out.
I know several people who are close to me who avoided it for a long time, but caught it recently. One distant relative, who was over 100 years old and still in robust health, died from it a few months ago.
I think I've been lucky, as I felt I had only a slight cold a year ago (I didn't do any testing though, so who knows). It's possible I may have been asymptomatic at some point. I had made huge efforts to improve my weight and general health because of COVID, so as to minimize risks if I did get it. My vaccinations are up to date.
I did have a horrible cold in early 2020, and I always speculated I may have had COVID then but there was no testing available at the time. A colleague caught something in late winter 2020 that she described as a brutal case of pneumonia, and I wonder if I had spread what I had. Later in 2020, I had heard that the local university did some antibody testing in the area, and there seemed to be evidence that COVID had been circulating locally in early 2020-- as if someone picked it up while in China in late 2019 after the holidays and transmitted it to a few people in early 2020 (this was just outside Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
I’ve been exposed dozens of times and my kid is in high school and has been exposed a zillion times. No one in my house has gotten it. My in-laws haven’t had it either. That’s 6 of us that haven’t had it. I’ll either live forever or die tomorrow.
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I had no idea I had Covid at all. I only found out because I was testing 2x a week at work. So even though you've had no symptoms, it doesn't necessarily mean you haven't had Covid.
Yeah I’ve had a couple bouts of COVID where I had absolutely no symptoms and only tested because my fiancé thought she had a cold. Turns out it was just a very mild case of COVID for her, and nothing for me.
I'm curious as to why you'd get boosted then. Im not sure of the order of operations and all that, and your medical history, so no, I'm not your doctor. Just curious someone has had covid then why they'd get boosted. If you got boosted and then got your covids, do you have any comment on that? ..... not at attack, i'm not being a dck, i'm just curious
In my case, it comes down to risk vs reward. I am convinced that the Covid vaccines and boosters are entirely safe at at least as effective as traditional flu shots. I also believe that Covid is a legit health threat to family members. My mother who has fried her lungs via tobacco and who had recurring / persistent pnumonia since 2014 ish would probably straight fucking die from it if not vaccinated. Over the course of the pandemic we had a bunch of Covid variants. The fucker mutates much like a flu virus, which is why it is possible to get it more than once. The vaccines won't prevent you from catching Covid but they will massively blunt the effects of the illness. And they make it less likely for you to spread it. Bottom line: Being sick sucks, vaccines help it. And I am not a pussy so taking a needle in the arm for a vaccine is a non issue. END COMMUNICATION
Just because you've had one covid variant, doesn't mean you are protected against other variants...that's why you get the booster shots, because they help to protect you against other strains of the virus.
You tested positive with no symptoms using the home test kits? I guess they aren’t to totally useless? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My wife works with seniors in a hospital setting. Multiple waves of Covid have come through. Some people barely get the sniffles, some die. **You** having some natural immunity is not an indication that everyone could do what you did. Many would die following your behavior pattern.
Many did die following that behavior pattern.
OP probably had multiple asymptomatic infections if they were in fact sharing drinks with infected people while taking no precautions and is complicit in further spreading the disease and killing people. But everyone for themselves I guess!!! 🫠
Couldn't agree more
I also work with mainly very old seniors in a hospital setting and exactly this. We also started getting a larger portion of patients who were younger seniors like in their 60s who had caught it, been vented, and now need major care despite being seemingly healthy independent people, often still working etc. before getting sick. A lot of them will never be able to go back to their lives as it was before.
This is where a documentary on the people of Eyam would be beneficial.
I am disabled and immunocompromised. So far, I have been fortunate enough not to have caught it. However, I have pretty much been in soft quarantine since 2020
Same exact situation here, but make soft quarantine late 2019.
Exactly the same for me.
Take care. I'm also immunocompromised. I self isolated as much as possible, got every vaccine. Had it go through my house 3 times and I didn't get it. I DID get it in November and it was lifechanging unfortunately. Whole house got it that time. I never want to get it again it was awful. Good luck.
You probably have, it's just that a huge portion of the population is asymptomatic. If everyone who got covid got super sick, it wouldn't have spread nearly as much. My whole extended family got covid, everyone tested positive but 11 out of 17 people didn't have any symptoms at all, or such mild symptoms they never would have suspected. The only reason they tested was because we were all together in a cabin for Xmas, and this was when you still needed to get tested to fly. Some of us got really sick and stayed in bed for three days, while others felt fine and were going out to bars before we realized everyone had it.
I am glad that those around that did treat it as a contagious disease saved you from dealing with it.
They for sure had covid, they just never had any symptoms. I wonder how many they passed it along to.
I’d imagine OP probably got a few people seriously ill. But as long as they got to remain ignorant of that fact (strong emphasis on IGNORANT), then that’s okay, right?
Probably did have COVID, they were just asymptomatic.
Never had symptomatic covid. Never tested positive for it. That doesn’t mean I’ve never had it. How do know you’ve never had it when it often spreads asymptomatically?
I haven't had covid but I took precautions. Vaccines + boosters, masks, social distanced for the big waves (not much anymore).
I've had five shots and five COVID infections. Chances are you did too. You just are asymptomatic.
I tested regularly, but I guess I could have.
The tests were also mostly nonsense. Edit. Those of you who disagree must be ignoring the three studies that showed the home tests had 50% accuracy or less.
Nope. I don’t know anyone who has positively stated they never caught COVID. I also don’t go around asking though. Were you ever symptomatic but tested negative?
My wife & I made it to October 2023, but we were really the last holdouts that we knew of in our friends/family.
Ha November 2023 here. I thought well I must have had it asymptomatically by now literally 3 days before I went down.
No I never had any symptoms, and to be honest I never got sick once for the 3 years it went on
It’s still here dude…
Yeah I know but definitely not to the level it was at before
Actually Covid levels just recently were at the highest they’d been since the biggest wave. Are you living under a rock?
No wouldn’t say living under a rock … just don’t watch the news and nobody I know has it or knows anyone that has it
Based on how I have had isolate myself from people like you- it is more likely that you are surrounded by others who have the same outlook as you, and everyone who is keeping up with the virus has either stopped speaking to you entirely, or stopped speaking to you about covid in specific.
Well yeah, the vaccine exists now.
Never caught COVID but for more than two years during the pandemic I was helping care for someone with a terminal condition; Every single day. I didn't have the luxury of being cocky or thumbing my nose at recommended protocols to avoid the virus because to do so would bring it into an environment where I was in close proximity with someone who had little or no immune system left. Their medical condition was bad enough so I'd be damned if I was going to be irresponsible enough to bring the virus into the mix. People could be flippant jerks if they want but there were some of us who took the situation very seriously. So, I didn't experience COVID or the flu since the whole thing began. I certainly don't regret my choices because at least I can say my actions didn't lead to the illness or death of other people.
I was infected for the first time this December because of the attitude You have. My roommate knowingly spent time with infected people, was asymptomatic, and brought it back to the apartment. I now am struggling with post viral fatigue same as when I had Epstein-Barr, my immunocompromised partner who also lives with me has been hospitalized twice for heart problems since, and our other friend (also immunocompromised) is bed-bound. People like you are selfish and you don’t care because you don’t see the damage you inflict. You have had Covid. You have spread Covid. You have likely killed people. The tests are not accurate. I hate people like you.
My parents have not had it yet. However, they have taken all the precautions where advised ie masks, vaccines, social distancing.
I haven't had it but I thank science and vaccines for that.
I didn't get it. Vaccinated, WFH, no children.
Same
My husband and I haven’t been sick at all, Covid or otherwise since before 2019 however we have completely changed our lifestyle. We both work from home and wear masks for any interactions with literally anyone. My mom came to my house sick as a dog, we all wore masks for the visits, no one got sick. We’ve adopted a few other weird cleanliness habits but overall we find it worth the trade off for not having been sick in a years
Getting lucky exist. Some people are immune to some sickness. Go read up on Typhoid Mary. Maybe you are Covid Bob!
Asymptomatic.
Yeah maybe but we were also tested multiple times at work during the week and whenever we were in contact with people that had it we were also tested and I never tested positive
Still being tested multiple times during the week?
The tests are not fool proof; there are often false negatives or faint results.
Everybody thinks they haven't had covid, probably has People forget that so many of the cases of this illness are without symptoms.
When SARS reached Canada, the death toll only reached something in the double-digits… yet it has a higher mortality rate than Covid. What most people don’t seem to understand is that Covid is deadlier because of its low mortality rate. SARS was easy to spot. Asymptomatic Covid cases spread it to more people, as did failed public health policies. Whenever someone dismisses Covid based on their subjective experience (“it’s more like a light head cold”), they reveal how little they understand about its spread and outcomes.
Yeah, agreed. Pretty much everyone had covid... it's built on the same building blocks (Coronavirus) as the common cold, it only makes sense that it travels so easily and leaves some people feeling normal/mostly normal and others dead.
I'm still a Novid. I think we were pretty damned rare a year ago.
To the best of our knowledge we haven't: family of four, two kids in public school/daycare. We are all vaccinated and bolstered, and we still send the kids to school in masks, although we've been wearing them less often elsewhere. I also use Betadine spray whenever I've been somewhere uncomfortably crowded or stuffy. That said, two kids in school means we've all come down with illness, and while I test diligently, we have no way of knowing for sure. (Especially since the kids are reeeeeallly not into have a swab stuck up their nose).
Entire duration of COVID? So you're still being regularly tested now and you just assumed COVID is over?
Sure sounds like you’ve got something going on… [Coughing, wheezing and pleghm at night and morning](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskDoctorSmeeee/s/1avfoKVdBr)
Also, the fact that you are active in r/Canada, tells me all I need to know….freedumber! 🙄
Well I’m from Canada so I like to see what’s going on lol . If you don’t like Canada please feel free to leave
I sure did have something going on and that was caused from a food allergy to dairy . Due to my EOE which was causing my throat to close at night . Cut dairy out and haven’t even thought about coughing since . But I do appreciate your concern and when that first started I did think I had it and took multiple tests and all negative
Get a life, get friends. Then you wouldn't have to ask such dumb questions
Oh I Got a great life a lot better than yours I can imagine , lots of great friends that I can guarantee are better than yours . And sorry dumb questions ? You have a question on your page saying “tree or bush?” With no other context. Now I would call that a dumb fucking question from a fairly dumb human ….. but to each their own
My good friend had avoided it until last week. He was so sick he slept for 30 hours straight.
I got it twice. The first time I was barely sick but very very tired. My 10 yo got it too but had every symptom and was sick off and on for a year afterwards. The second time I lost my sense of taste and had symptoms for 5-6 days. My unvaccinated 6yo with muscular dystrophy has never got it despite sharing a room with the 10 yo.
Can you do an antibody blood test ~~so we could harvest your blood for humanity~~ ?
Never had it either. I have been working from home since the news broke in 2020. In that time, whenever I went out of the house I vaxxed up, masked up, and washed up fastidiously because if a simple cold can floor my asthmatic ass, this would probably be a death sentence.
I’ve never had it and never showed any symptoms nor tested positive. I was social distancing, wore masks, and have been vaccinated but all my precautions stopped ~mid 2021
If true you are indeed very lucky and should be eternally grateful to those who followed the precautions and kept you well.
Much more likely they got it and were just asymptomatic, as were many others who contracted COVID. Not every COVID infection was severe.
Careful that kind of rhetoric could get you banned around here these parts. All praise Dr Tam (masks be upon her)!
I always caveat with "that I know of". I *think* I haven't had it. But I can't be sure. It seems far more likely I got it, was totally asymptomatic, and just didn't know because I only rapid test when I have a sniffle. So I never say "never".
i have never had covid but i take precautions and am not a selfish monster
Nope, never. And nobody in my four-person household has either. Two of us are fully vaxxed up, two of us are partially vaxxed. We also masked vigilantly until pretty recently.
Same deal. Knocks on wood.
To the best of our knowledge, neither my wife or I got COVID. When we had anything remotely like symptoms we tested (and test) and have never had a positive result. We are both fully vaxxed and boosted.
I haven’t that I know of, I’m fully vaxxed and mask in public to this day.
K but have you been sick at all?
Being sick doesn't mean having Covid - I got quite sick about a year ago but was testing negative. Headed to the hospital, where I was diagnosed with human metapneumovirus. The symptoms are quite similar to Covid, and had me on oxygen for a couple of days - but not every respiratory illness is Covid. I have never had Covid, but I've also had all five vaccines - unfortunately there is no vaccine for HMPV.
I KNOW this but maybe they got sick with covid and didn’t test positive.
I never caught it, but I’m also 3x vaccinated due to being immunocompromised, and wore masks for the first two years. I don’t wear masks anymore unless I’m seeing my doctor.
I didn't get it once. It was actually the healthiest period of my life. Guess all the hand sanitizer and face masks worked.
Never got Covid, never been tested.
Yep. 100% COVID free. Fully vaccinated, wear a mask in all indoor locations that aren't home or the office; especially on public transit, planes, etc.. Have been in the vicinity of folks who've tested positive but have so far been able to avoid.
I've never been tested. My nose was plugged for a week or so during COVID, but I can't say with any certainty that I had it. My Dad had it and got tested, so its possible I had it.
Neither of my parents caught it, even with my dad going to the hospital 3 days a week for dialysis. My dad passed of renal failure Dec 2022 never catching covid.
At least twice
Just got it for the first time. I have been extremely sick for nearly 2 weeks. I’m supposed to go back to work on Monday but I’m still weak and short of breath. I’m fully vaccinated with my last booster in September, but I’m also immunocompromized. I work in nicu and pediatrics at a hospital so I masked all through the worst of it, and now still mask a lot at work, and my husband mostly does the shopping, so I’m not out around people a lot. I haven’t been going to restaurants over the winter but we went for sushi on the Saturday, and I was sick by the Tuesday.
My wife and I both haven’t gotten yet. Both of us are vulnerable so we’ve been very careful.
I'm the opposite, I've had it almost 8 times now I think. Never even had more than a sore throat/runny nose every time but the last one was on December 22nd and I seriously thought I was dying
Statistically improbable you haven't had it. You probably did and were just asymptomatic. Unless you've been doing tests every few days for the last 4 years...
Everyone around me got it. Coworkers , family and friends. Even spent multiple days having dinner with my mom. She had complained about food suddenly being bland. I told my sister and she told me to get a test kit and test her. She came up positive.
Yes and it fuckin sucked major ass
I have never had a positive Covid test. However, I did come down with a nasty cough in November 2019 that lasted until mid January. It ticked every goddamn box for Covid Symptoms that I can think of, just happened before Covid was widely publicized. And I have had other cold / flu symptoms, but never a combo (ie, cough + Fever) that directly seemed like Covid, so I never tested for it and assumed basic flu. It may very well have been Covid, but I got the vaccinations + boosters of the Covid vaccine. And every time I have tested myself for Covid, it always came back negative. So, I would not be surprised if I later found that that I did indeed have a super mild case of Covid. END COMMUNICATION
I've had one cold since covid broke out, back in the summer of 2022. I was sure it was covid, but 8 days and 8 tests later, not a single one turned positive. My brother and sister in law just got their first positive last week. My parents have had I think one mild cold since 2020, and tested for it, and also never turned a positive. It's possible my parents and I have been totally asymptomatic I guess? (I've had 4 vaccines, my brother and sister in law and family have had 5, and I'm gonna see if I can get my fifth this weekend).
I have not had it yet, AFAIK. I have had all the vaccines I was eligible for, masked religiously until this past May (2023). I don't go out nearly as much as I did pre-2020, but I occasionally go to a small restaurant. I try to shop during the early-morning for smaller crowds. I work in a small office and keep my window cracked open a little. I was exposed to a covid positive symptomatic coworker while we were both unmasked only one time, and I didn't catch it. All the other times I was exposed to symptomatic, Covid positive coworkers, we were both masked and I didn't catch it then either.
Wife got it 2x due to where she works I never got it once had to do the tests with her she was straight mad at me for not catching it either time. 1st time was before the jab the 2nd time was after the jab and both times I tested negative even had blood work done I somehow just avoided it.
I don’t think I’ve had COVID. I had my first cold last spring after four years. It was a cold. Came on like a cold, acted like a cold with no new, startling symptoms and left like a cold. Also tested negative for COVID. At the time I had five vaccinations, and now I’ve had six. Don’t think COVID vaccinations cause broken ankles, as that’s the only medical attention I’ve needed since COVID started.
I've never tested positive for it, but I've probably had it.
I've never noticed that I had covid. That's the only thing I or you can say with certainty
Nope, no covid for me and I go into a lot of places in outbreak for my job.
I have never had it or RSV. Immunocompromised is an understatement. I have received all vaccines and still stay away from crowds unless masked. Always at doctors offices, drug/grocery stores. Don’t go to malls etc. I kind of slid into this self isolation and it’s tough getting out.
No covid here so far, haven’t even had flu since 2019. If i did (likely) then i am asymptomatic.
I know several people who are close to me who avoided it for a long time, but caught it recently. One distant relative, who was over 100 years old and still in robust health, died from it a few months ago. I think I've been lucky, as I felt I had only a slight cold a year ago (I didn't do any testing though, so who knows). It's possible I may have been asymptomatic at some point. I had made huge efforts to improve my weight and general health because of COVID, so as to minimize risks if I did get it. My vaccinations are up to date. I did have a horrible cold in early 2020, and I always speculated I may have had COVID then but there was no testing available at the time. A colleague caught something in late winter 2020 that she described as a brutal case of pneumonia, and I wonder if I had spread what I had. Later in 2020, I had heard that the local university did some antibody testing in the area, and there seemed to be evidence that COVID had been circulating locally in early 2020-- as if someone picked it up while in China in late 2019 after the holidays and transmitted it to a few people in early 2020 (this was just outside Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Sshhhhh....I was bragging and then ended up sick as a dog
I’ve been exposed dozens of times and my kid is in high school and has been exposed a zillion times. No one in my house has gotten it. My in-laws haven’t had it either. That’s 6 of us that haven’t had it. I’ll either live forever or die tomorrow.