COVID twice

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AIBU to ask how many people have now had confirmed COVID twice? And how the two cases compared?

When you book your pcr test online they ask you if you're willing to do an antibody test

My husband first time in April 2020 felt ill and on the urge of hospitalization. August 2021 post double vaccine much better just like a flu.

@HappyDays40

My husband first time in April 2020 felt ill and on the urge of hospitalization. August 2021 post double vaccine much better just like a flu.

Was it confirmed in April 2020?

Not me but a young twenty something man with no underlying health conditions in my town.

Had COVID last year, was double jabbed and caught it again. This time ended up on a ventilator in ICU. Luckily got through it and is now recovering at home but is suffering health effects.

This is not an urban myth, I know the family.

There are 16,000 confirmed cases of a second positive test. So it is rare but not impossible if there has been longer than 6 months and you haven't been double vaccinated.

First for me was late 2019/early 2020.
Second was a month ago.
I have no immune system as it’s wiped out by a biologic medication and have autoimmune conditions.

MASSIVE difference in the symptoms.
First time we had to call out paramedics for oxygen and I couldn’t take steps into the kitchen. Was on steroids for a month, 3 lots of asthma meds and 3 x antibiotics.

This time I took a LFT because I felt slightly asthmatic but no comparison between the 2 episodes. This time I just had a bad headache and loss of smell/taste, blocked ears. Breathing fine. You wouldn’t have known by looking at me.

I tested positive in January this year, mild symptoms much like a hangover. Had both jabs and then tested positive again in September. I was really ill, ended up in hospital. It was awful.

Me and ds1. For both of us the first case was worse than the second (me by a lot, ds was mild both times)

Should add weve not had the delta variant which is meant to be particularly grim. Just the original c19 and the alpha variant.

I know I had it last May, but couldn't get a test then for love nor money. Got long Covid, although thankfully better now.
Double vaxxed although second jab very recently. My DC tested positive for Covid-19 early September, we isolated. My PCR was negative but I was definitely ill. Still have a terrible cough.
However, having been vaxxed, it was like having a bad cold, nothing worse.

I've signed up to do an anti body test. I must be teeming with them by now!

This is something I always wonder about. Had covid confirmed Jan this year and double vaxxed. I always presumed if I caught it again it would be mild again. From this thread it seems not. I'm presuming I had the Kent variant as I "think" I caught it at a major Kent hospital.

Worrying

A bit worrying, looking at pps’ experiences.

I’ve been thinking that having had it once and been double jabbed it would be mild another time. Guess not.

I thought that viruses usually got milder as they mutate?

@Porcupineintherough how do you know which variant you had? Is it just based on timing?

Watching with interest

@Niconacotaco sort of. I was told I had alpha (that was last Dec so timing fits). First time was March 2020 so assume that was the "original" COVID.

I know someone that seems to have had it 4 times, although the first was not confirmed by PCR in the first wave. On the other hand I know of very few people who have had it at all, including her partner who failed to catch from her in any of those instances. Mysteries abound with this thing.

Yes itvwas end of April 2020 im sure he worked at the time as a Respiratory Physiotherapist and was on wards full of people with COVID. They offered tests at work.

Oddly neither time have I caught it pre ir post vaccine. I PCR tested in August 2021 obviously could not test in April 2020. Tests weren't available to the lowly members of the public such as me

I've had covid twice. Both times confirmed by PCR.

First time was beginning of this year in January and second time was in August.

First time it was going around my workplace and i tested because i was in contact with a college who was positive. I got positive result few days later. I had no symptoms though.

Second time i randomly all of a sudden felt tired in middle of the day, had headache, high temp and felt weak. I had been to an event a few days before and decided to test via lateral flow. It was positive. Ordered a home pcr test, sent back, and got confirmed positive. Few days later i lost taste and smell which lasted 2 weeks.

A friend of the family came back from Italy in early February 2020 and was ill with "flu". DH caught this flu and was really ill, four rounds of steroids, GP gave him antibiotics which didn't work, needed inhalers, the cough lingered on for weeks. Several other family members had varying degrees of the same thing. Our DC were ill with temperatures, mild coughs, and bounced back really quickly. I felt like I was coming down with it, I had a mild temperature and lost my sense of smell and taste, bit of a tickly throat like the start of a cough/cold but it never really got going into a cough or cold and just stayed at that stage for around a week then went away.

Looking back now I'm 90% certain it was covid. I have had very close contact with people who unknowingly had covid and haven't caught it which makes me wonder if I was already immune and then of course I got vaxxed which protected me even more. I got sent an antibody test last week but haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

I know a health worker who’s had it 3 times. Hospitalised each time.

Everyone who’s had it twice tho, has it been confirmed to be covid via a test each time?
Hear so much of folk saying they had it end 2019/start 2020 but testing wasn’t available then

@Confrontayshunme

There are 16,000 confirmed cases of a second positive test. So it is rare but not impossible if there has been longer than 6 months and you haven't been double vaccinated.

@Confrontayshunme, could you point towards where you got this figure from please?

www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-surveillance-of-possible-covid-19-reinfection-published-by-phe

Sure. I think this has been updated. I personally know at least a dozen people who have had it twice now, all school employees, which sucks but is not surprising given how 98% of the people in our primary are unvaccinated children.