To ask if anyone has had a cough and not got a positive test

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Dm has come down with what we are hoping is a cough and cold virus. We are awaiting tests results for her. Has anyone had a cough and it not been the virus?

Yes, I've currently got a terrible cough which is the result of a viral chest infection. Not always Covid although it's easy to jump straight to that. Hope your DM is ok

Thank you hope you feel better soon.

Yes almost my whole family and at least 6 kids in DC class who had to wait to get back to school until negative test 😂
Coughs and colds are here like every winter- the govt didn't factor this in to testing advice or volumes.

MiL scared the life out of us a couple of weeks ago by developing a high temp and a cough (she is shielding). It was a virus (not cv) and she was better within a week. Try not to worry too much until you need to.

Yea. People have been getting coughs for thousands of years and it waant covid19. You can get a cough without it being covid. Still need to get tested but you dont need to immediately panic.

Yes, my daughter has a nasty cough but the test was negative

Yep! We both have coughs but tested negative. I got it from one of my students at work!

Yes I got a cough but it is smoking related. Get tested weekly because of my job.

Yes - my husband had a terrible cough and a temperature of 40 degrees - he had pneumonia, negative covid test.

Yes my whole family. Just a cold.. tested negative

Yep I’m fact before Covid one year , last year actually both myself and my son got a coughs and even fevers. My son has a terrible cough and fever and was chest infection. In fact I’m pretty sure in the past and centuries gone by that humanity has always had coughs and from a wide range of different viral infections.

Currently less than 2.5% of tests are positive & most people I know who’ve had them have predominantly had them because of a new persistent cough (because of schools not allowing staff or pupils to attend with one).

Yep. My husband has had four, and my son has had two.

Loads of kids at school had a cough and negative and also a couple of teachers too.

Me

Yes loads of people including me and DH. Lots of coughs doing the rounds at school and the hospital I work at. Still very low COVID rates round here so coughs as just the old fashioned cold kind.

DDs flatmate has had a cough for about a week now. She was tested on the second day and it was negative. No other symptoms, not even a cold.

I've got a cough and a temperature. My Covid test was delivered this afternoon, but too late for me to get it done and for Mr L to drop it at the priority letter box before the deadline, so I'll do it tomorrow.

We think we had Covid in March though (similar symptoms, but worse and my sense of smell disappeared for weeks) so I'm not expecting a positive result.

My ds did. He was sent home from school with a temperature and a cough a few weeks ago.
We didn’t send him in with a cough, it just developed over the day.
Same for a colleague and several students.
I work in a sChool environment and we’ve seen lots of negative results.

Me - ended up being asthma and chest infection

DH - run of the mill cold. He's still barking like a dog in my ear all night

Yes my youngest had a terrible cough and cold, the cough was post nasal drip.

Yep! Cold that developed into a cough, negative test.

Of course.

DS once and me once.

I am recovering from a chest viral infection not covid it has been a bad one.
DS is still chesty 10 days later.