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Anyone else not knowingly had covid?

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Allmyghosts · 02/04/2023 18:03

It seems like any time anyone has a virus of which there are many people auto suggest covid. Which is not logical at all. I wonder though how many people haven't had it. I had pneumonia in Jan 2020, ds2 had a positive test 2021. Nobody else tested positive tho, he wasn't actually ill either.

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flowertoday · 02/04/2023 20:05

I have got it at the moment, tested positive Friday but managed to avoid it for three years previously. During this time the children had it multiple times, avoided it at glastonbury last year (everyone else I worked with went home with it), have dodged it when I have been in a&e and other wards ( for work) when it was definitely all around.
Am hoping may manage a covid free summer now after I shake it off 🙏🙏

GordonShakespearedoesChristmas · 02/04/2023 20:10

I've never knowingly had Covid, but was very I'll with Covid like symptoms March 2020 just before the lockdowns. But then I did an antibody test and didn't have any so 🤷‍♀️

grapehyacinthisactuallyblue · 02/04/2023 20:12

I don't know anyone who had it, within our extended families on both my side and my dh's side. I thought my dc would get it, since he has very weak immune system, many of his friends had it, but he never tested positive, or never fallen ill.

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VikingLady · 02/04/2023 20:14

I know a few people who say they haven't had it, but had "a bad cold" when I had covid. And had been with them whilst we were infectious before symptoms.

Hamsterrace · 02/04/2023 20:19

I've never tested positive. Me, dd, and ds all got ill with the same horrible virus. Dd tested positive, me and ds were always negative. That's with the home tests and the testing centre ones. Dd slept in my bed while she was poorly and literally breathed in my mouth. I think some people just don't test positive.

LoobyDop · 02/04/2023 20:21

Haven’t knowingly had it. I’ve had two nasty but short-lived colds since March 2020, no other illness. My husband has managed to avoid even catching those. We’ve lived completely normally, going out as soon as restrictions lifted, going on holiday each year. I think it’s significant though that we don’t have children, we don’t use public transport very often, and we mostly wfh. We aren’t ever forced into contact with other people.

junebirthdaygirl · 02/04/2023 20:22

I've had it twice. Once quite a bad dose. Dh never got it although he didn't isolate from me. He tested regularly each time.Our adult ds lives at home and has never tested positive either. But in December 2019 he was desperately sick after a work trip to ltaly..worse that he had ever been so may have had it. He was back in the house with us all over Christmas with no isolation and no one else got sick.
When l got it first 15 of us were at one meeting and 14 got it and one didn't. Hard to know why.

Growlybear83 · 02/04/2023 20:27

My husband hadn't had Covid, although my daughter and I both had it last July when my mum was dying in hospital. Before then, my mum was in a care home so I had to test every time I visited her, and he has tested regularly since tests were first readily available as his mum is vulnerable and in extra care housing.

Thankgoditsbedtyme · 02/04/2023 20:36

Iv not knowingly had covid, I work in the social sector so had to test regularly.
my son had it and I cuddled him straight after as he was upset and slept in the same bed as him that night, I didn’t catch it and tested regularly after. My partner then got it. And then months later my sister I was drinking out of the same drink as her on the car ride to uni, she started feeling unwell later that night and tested positive for covid, I still didn’t catch it despite sharing a drink and trying one of her new flavoured vapes. I have no idea how Iv avoided it though it’s so strange.

Greengreented · 02/04/2023 20:38

Allmyghosts · 02/04/2023 18:53

Did you have the vaccine?

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Yes I did. Similarly to pps, I have had more than the “normal” number of vaccines (5) because of the trial, perhaps that is a factor.

Greengreented · 02/04/2023 20:39

I should say that it was the Novavax trial, and as it took so long to get approved, I also had two Pfizer vaccines, and then a booster…

Hbh17 · 02/04/2023 20:40

As far as i know, I have never had it and nor has my husband. And, of course, testing is unnecessary so I would never know in future either.
If I ever (unknowingly) get it, I'm sure it will be much like a cold - it's not a big deal.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 02/04/2023 20:44

I have had it but I only know because I tested and I only tested because DH was had tested positive and we were meant to be going to a family party.

I was totally asymptomatic.

timetorefresh · 02/04/2023 20:46

Caught it for the first time about a month ago. Felt awful for about a week. Couldn't do anything

GetDownkeith · 02/04/2023 20:50

Ds2 (12) we all had it early last year he was regularly tested while we had it and was still going to school etc. Never had it. He's not had any covid type illness since then either. He's never had chickenpox either.

MintJulia · 02/04/2023 20:56

I haven't.

I had chemo in Jan 2022, was immuno-surpressed and living with a teenager, tested every week and yet I haven't caught it. Nor has my ds. I assume we already had immunity somehow.

WorriedMillie · 02/04/2023 20:57

Had weird symptoms April 2020, not the classic symptoms reported back then, no cough etc, but felt like something sitting on my chest, upset stomach and NQR. This was pre testing and nothing like I’d experienced before

Otherwise, nada!

TattiePants · 02/04/2023 21:05

To my knowledge I haven’t had it and neither has DS. Both DH and DD went two years without it and it was only last year when they did something out of the ordinary - DH went on a cycling holiday and DD went on a school residential - that they caught it.

Thepossibility · 02/04/2023 21:10

My PIL haven't had it despite spending days with us helping us move house when we (unknowingly) had it.
I was shocked because it's supposed to be so infectious but nope, nothing.

yevrah1102 · 02/04/2023 21:13

My kids and I haven't despite me working in a customer facing, close contact role and the kids all being at school/nursery

Ivebeenframed · 02/04/2023 21:13

I've had it twice. The first time March 2022 very mild symptoms, the scratchy sore throat, no cough or fever. Then again January 2023, started again with the scratchy sore throat, very lethargic and constant sneezing. Each time my partner tested regularly as he cares for his elderly mother but never caught it.

Wbeezer · 02/04/2023 21:14

I hadn't had it until last week, pride goes before a fall! Only felt I'll for about 24 hrs though.

May09Bump · 02/04/2023 21:19

Think we all had it just as they were asking you if you'd been to China and visiting the GP with a cough. The children and I were quite bad, my SAT's were down and I'm not normally impacted with most bugs. Luckily I asked to go in the backdoor and not sit in the waiting room. The second time we had been to a children's party and due to visit someone vulnerable, so tested and was positive - 0 symptoms and negative after 3 days. Daughter technically hasn't had it - never tested positive despite regular testing due to vulnerable person.

HouseofHolbein · 02/04/2023 21:39

Our household of me husband and 4 older teens have missed it totally. I worked in a supermarket throughout as did the husband. None of us have been particularly careful. So unless we have all been totally asymptomatic none of us have had it.

mondaytosunday · 02/04/2023 21:39

Me and my daughter (who's on the tube every day) haven't had it as far as we know, and she was testing really regularly up til this past school year.