Is there anyone who doesn’t think they had covid last winter

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no trolling or trying to be clever, almost every single person I know thinks they could have had it last year. I was in hospital for a virus which caused breathing difficulties in December. I feel like I’m losing touch with relaity

Unless I’ve been asymptomatic (which is a possibility - I have worked out of the house throughout the whole of this year without PPE and in a job where social distancing is impossible) I don’t think I’ve had Covid. I haven’t been unwell at all since last year touch wood and I haven’t had any of the main symptoms.

I am getting a bit tired of attention seekers telling me how they’re convinced they had it last Christmas, or that their dad has had it more than once. Ok, it could be a possibility but it’s a vanishingly rare one, and it seems to be every man and his dog. You’re not a medical marvel, just calm down and stop spreading fake news like it’s a fact.

No, I didnt even have a cold last winter

If i've had covid at any point, i havent had any symptoms. However, the only people i know if who had it (fever, extreme breathlessness) had it in february. That was two local cases and scotland. Scotland was confirmed too, as the people it passed to tested positive in march.

I had it back in March. I had antibodies in July, but not in October.

I really thought I had it 3 times 🤣 but I just done the antibodies test for research and I have 0! I do have health anxiety and this had just clarified it lol

Had a pinched nerve in my neck, does that count?

No one was ill in my family until April (so spring). We thought we had hay fever in April. In May my daughter was tested for antibodies, which was positive. None of the rest of us tested positive for antibodies.

Everyone around here had covid type symptoms between December and March. High temperatures, coughs, loss of taste and smell.

I had no staff in my office in January. One was hospitalised in December and nearly died. Her consultant has now told her that they are 99.9% certain that it was covid.

I had covid toe, temperature, headache and exhaustion in February.

My family has an illness in January or February which ended up with my stepdad being admitted to hospital for about 2 weeks with a temperature that wouldn't come down. He's never ill so this was quite a scare. When he was recovering he completely lost his sense of taste. I'm 99% certain we didn't have Covid but it did make us wonder a bit when they announced loss of taste as a symptom.

Around the same time before Covid was a big thing here I remember someone posted a thread asking if anyone else had had a strange bug. There was lots of people saying they had and I remember reading it and thinking that sounds like what we had. I've never been able to find the thread since though, it would be interesting to read now.

The last time I was ill was November last year, so before Covid would have been a possibility. I had the cough from hell and ended up seeing my GP in December because it was so persistent and nasty and my temperature kept shooting up and down. He gave me an antibiotic prescription on the understanding that I would only use it if the cough didn't start to clear up within another couple of weeks. Thankfully I didn't need to use it as things started to improve.

The thing is, if I'd had that same cough in, say, February/March, I would probably be thinking now that I'd had Covid. I very rarely go to the doctor, certainly not with a cough. But this was bad. I imagine lots of people had the same thing as me, but later, and are wondering now if it might have been Covid.

Nope.

We all had a horrible virus in November last year. Horrid fatigue, nausea, headaches, chills, lack of appetite, sheer exhaustion. My 7yo slept for 5 days.

But it wasn't Covid.

I thought I may have had it but had no antibodies when tested 3 months later so probably didn't.

I definitely didn't have it, I don't remember having a cough at all, maybe one cold but that's it.

Not last year, but I think I had it just before lockdown in Feb/March. It's the total loss of smell and taste without a blocked nose that convinces me it was Covid. I've never had that before. Plus really bad fatigue. Also I had had contact with multiple boarding students who'd been home to China, Italy and Spain for February half term and one UK student whose family had it. Dh and the dc either didn't get it from me or were asymptomatic.

No, I don't think I've had it ever. People who think they have had it are more likely to be more vocal than people who don't. There's not much of a story to share when you haven't had something.

All my family had a horrible bug in December and January. Everyone in work was coughing when we went back after Christmas.

Only threads on here where posters are adamant it couldn’t have been have made me question it.

Didn't so much as catch a cold last winter which is very unusual for me!

Early Oct19 I was very poorly. Not enough to warrant hospitalisation but bed bound for 5 days. I lost my sense of smell and my taste went off. Neither have yet returned. Could be coincidence.

At the same time, a bug was flying through the primary schools around my way. They were having to close for deep cleans; teachers were on their knees either off ill or covering for the ill.

It was in the local papers how bad it was.

Nope, but I think I might have had it mildly towards the start of lockdown. My boss and several other people I work with definitely had it the week before and first week of lockdown, and I was physically close to them for the last couple of weeks. Then I wasn't well, but not the really ill most people were who were confirmed to have it. No test back then so don't know.

My dd (13) had flu last year (actual flu) and was determined that this was Covid 19. I explained that because her father and I had the annual flu vaccine we didn't get it off her. Had we not had the annual flu vaccine or if it had been Covid 19, we would have got it.

I don't think I had it. My daughter was very poorly with flu last winter, and there was a week where most of her class was off - but I don't think it was COVID.

I haven't had anything like it. I never get ill though. My partner tested positive through his work but had no symptoms.

At the same time, a bug was flying through the primary schools around my way. They were having to close for deep cleans; teachers were on their knees either off ill or covering for the ill.

You might live the same region as me because our schools were the same (NE England). DS class on one week only had eight children in attendance. We knew a few people hospitalised with pneumonia due to catching it too.

A lot of horrid respiratory things were doing the rounds last year. I do wonder about the hacking cough I had in late Jan / early Feb - I remember there was some mucus stuck in my lungs for ages and I could hear it and feel it when I breathed in deeply to have a huge cough. It finally shifted a month later and I remember feeling it, it was so odd!! A couple of my department (I’m in a secondary school) were floored with something we thought was flu in January and one of my department had something that she was told was most likely covid in early March (but not tested because they weren’t back then unless you’d been abroad).

I had a 5-7 day cold at end of January, unusual for me.
I had antibody testing (for covid) in July which was negative (as expected).
Someone at work was unusually ill in December. I don't believe she believes it to be covid. No one else I know was unusually ill in last year.

I never normally get much in the way of colds etc. Always have the flu jab (frontline NHS). Had horrid virus in late feb along with many staff at my hospital. We all got swabbed for flu and, because of working in a hospital, PHE got involved and we were swabbed for covid. We all had flu A, negative for covid. I was antibody tested in the summer - totally negative.