Do You Know Many People Who Still Haven't Had Covid?

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DH and I have had all vaccinations and boosters. We're both over sixty and we live in a small, remote Scottish village. I believe that this is probably the reason that neither of us has caught Covid (yet).

The DC live in London and three of them have had it (two of them, twice).

Whilst there have been countless cases of Covid in our village, we have escaped.

Does anyone else know people who still haven't had it?

I haven’t had it. I work in care and at one point we testing every day with lateral flow tests, and PCR tests twice a week.
Pretty even split between colleagues too. With those that have had seeming to get it twice even three times.

Only one work colleague. All friends and family have had it. My own child has had it twice.

I'm not vaccinated at all and have had it once. My son and partner didn't catch it, we also had a friend stay for 4 weeks in that time frame he also didn't catch it from me. (Both adults are vaccinated)

I haven't had it and live in the SE

Never been vaxxed and never had covid, same for my family

That is statiscally extremely unusual, are you in England?

Over 70% of people have now had covid which suggests it would be pretty much impossible not to know someone unless you only know a handful of people

I haven't 'had it'. Well not officially anyway. I had all the symptoms of early covid Christmas 2019. It was the most poorly I have ever felt and was in bed for nearly a week and under the weather for a good couple of months afterwards. I was just beginning to recover when we hit lockdown.

I'm convinced it was covid but just not recognised at the time

😂😂😂

So despite overwhelming scientific data that vaccinations were what got most of the world out of covid you don't think that's right based on a random selection of anonymous replies that you have no way of knowing are true

Right

Yes, me. I work on a supermarket checkout and the vast majority of my colleagues - approximately 200 people - haven’t had Covid either.

I think the key here is whether you've KNOWINGLY had Covid.

Loads of us who think we've never had it must have had it at some point. There was so much talk of asymptomatic cases for most of 2020 that it stands to reason lots of us will have had it and not known.

DH has had it twice. First time caught on holiday (thankfully didn't have symptoms until we were home). I didn't get it despite the same exposure to the person he caught it from, and no isolating from DH.
I didn't isolate from him the second time he had it either.

I work with the general public, so meet loads of randoms most days, have a fairly normal life (go out shopping, to pubs etc), use public transport (trains up and down the country), so I have clearly had plenty of exposure.

I think some people are probably just more naturally immune than others. I don't even tend to get colds (DH brings them home from work a few times each winter), and have never had flu. I consider myself very lucky.

Me and DS2 have never tested positive nor feel we have had it, but I imagine we have both had it asymptomatically.
DS1 brought it into the home twice and we didn't isolate from him.
Me and DS2 have been following guidelines etc (we have no health condition which means we needed to take extra personal precautions), and I've only been more careful than those guidelines when visiting the boys' grandad who is in a care home.

Me and DS2 are as vaxxed as we can be. DS1 is not.

I haven't ever tested positive, and I test at any hint of symptoms.

I live in a major city, work in an office, catch public transport, socialise, travelled overseas. All the other people in my household have had it.

3 x vaccinations, last one in January.

Have nursed two of my teenagers through it, worked alongside people with it and never caught it. My son hasn't had it and neither has my ex husband.

Non of my family caught covid yet, both my side and my dh's side. My dc never caught it even his friends at school have and being a close contact. so, I think it maybe true.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/are-some-people-resistant-to-covid-19-geneticists-are-on-the-hunt

That why covid really worried us at the start - with several asthmatics in the house - for a long time the line was anything before end of February/start of March couldn't have been covid - thus we were all really ill with a "normal" cold and we'd only just started feeling better when covid was suddenly a big thing.

Then before official time line wavered and started to shift it turned out people in DH building hadn't just been in China - which is a large place - but some actually in Wuhan.

None of us seem to have had it since in this house - so DH, Me and Kids nor IL have officially had it - - during the actual covid bit though we've all had our vaccinations.

I haven't, DP hasn't, DS hasn't, neither of my parents or DP's parents have had it.

My best friend and my brother have both had it twice, two people at work have had it in the last couple of weeks. I'm amazed I've managed to avoid it

DH and MIL haven't. I have married into some hardy genes! 💪

Three out of four of us have never had it or real reason to believe we had despite the 4th person having it twice. Usual out and aboutness in a major city on public transport etc. I guess an awful lot of people didn't do the tests that thoroughly.

My friend owns her own beauty business, she’s sees between 5-12 clients a day for all kinds of treatments, 5 days a week and as far as she knows she’s never had it!

@GloomyDarkness I'm a care worker in the south west. Winter 2019 here was terrible with it. I lost clients to it. The hospitals were full of an unknown virus causing chest infection / pneumonia.
Interestingly once covid 'hit' we had very low numbers here for a long while. So I'm convinced that we had our first 'wave' of covid Nov 19 - Jan 20. A lot of medics I have spoken to now agree.

I still haven't had it. Neither has my DD or DH. I'm as certain as I can be of this - we test weekly because my Dad is ECV due to chemotherapy for the past 3 years.

I'm amazed that we've never had it. We live in a very large city and my husband and i both work. My husband travels a lot due to work and i work in an office. We've never had the option to work from home. Our DD is in full time childcare and has played with children who've ended up testing postive for covid the following day. I've also worked alongside colleagues who've had covid. We've had every vaccine we've been offered.

My whole household (4 people) haven't had Covid and most of my wider family haven't either.

I haven't had it. I've been working with children since June 2020 without PPE or lockdowns. I live in London. I go shopping, go on tube etc. I've had 2 vaccinations.

Ps. My whole family have had it, including my eighty year old parents and 2 of my sons twice, dh and DD once.