To think people may have already had coronavirus?

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I had pneumonia recently, pretty severe, hospitalised. Everyone I've told has said, 'it's weird how many people have said they've had pneumonia in the last month or two.' Yes I know it's the season for these things but it's a bit unusual that so many young and fit people have had pneumonia.

Just out of interest, has anyone you know had pneumonia in the last month or so (in the UK)?

Me and dh both had similar in November, lasted about 4 weeks, breathless and the worse coughs ever. Does anyone know.....if it was Corona, can we get it again or are we immune?

It is possible it didn't just start on the one day, it was there before it all blew up in Jan so may well be.

I don't buy the public health england bit are monitoring as hardely anyone goes to the doctor with colds or flu unless there are complications and even then I'd very much expect that they'd assume it was just the flu and not do tests for COVID-19 anyway!

Flu in itselff is a nasty ilness that those bloody viruses keep mutation and changing. We should be very very thankfull that the evil 1918 version dosent come around again or something similar and this COVID may be not as bad but bad enough:(

Covid-19 wasn't spreading in the UK in November and December. Seasonal bugs are shit too.

If the new virus had been spreading unchecked back then (before it was even spreading widely in China I might add) we'd have been in crisis here long ago. Hospitals would be completely overwhelmed and thousands would be dead.

Seasonal viruses like flu make a lot of people very ill EVERY winter.

You may well have had a coronavirus but it may not have been Covid-19.

They're pretty common and would give you a lot of the same symptoms.

If it had been in circulation in Europe, there would have been a number of unexplained pneumonia cases, and they'd have matched them with the virus by now if it had not been identified then.

Having said that, it's quite possible that the symptoms people have been having are due to other coronaviruses.

Yes, a friend in Kent had what was diagnosed as pneumonia in January, he was quite ill, now recovered. Didn't think about this, but yes it's possible some have been infected with CV and as it wasn't specifically tested for, it passed as flu etc.

I think so. Loads of people don't see the GP and just self dx with flu or colds - you don't go if you are managing.

I am 50. I have known a number of people to have pneumonia, old and young. Was only really an issue with the much older people though.
If this had been coronavirus the mortality rate would have been much higher than usual. That is how China eventually realised.

All fair points, and it's just a theory. I know there are a lot of bugs every year, I was just surprised to be so violently ill when I'm never normally ill, and to hear of so many similar cases when I usually don't. 🤷‍♀️

Yes our family have discussed this too! I was very poorly Oct/Nov took ages to shift it and the whole house come down with it too. Does make you wonder.

I had a terrible virus in November, I was crawling on my hands and knees to go to the loo and it took about seven weeks to recover 100%.I didn’t go to my Doctors as it was a virus. I did self isolate though as didn’t want my family to get it so kept away from them totally for two weeks. We have a sofa bed in the main sitting room so I holed up in there with the tv, I pad and games console.I was so ill I just laid with my eyes shut for a good couple of days as couldn’t even manage to watch tv. DH just brought food and drink to the door, I kept a stash of the used crockery and then on about day four staggered to dishwasher. This was my decision I have major OCD and a huge fear of both being contaminated or contaminating others so I know my reaction was extreme but they didn’t catch it. There is a tv and small sofa in our kitchen diner so they had that area.

So in my twenties had a bf who was same age and got pneumonia, we were both shocked. Friend in her 40s got pneumonia. Another friend in her 60's has had pneumonia twice. And several relatives in their 80s have had pneumonia. It is not that unusual. In the younger people it was people who were fit and healthy, got a chest infection, and did not rest but carried on being active. One was diagnosed after going to the GP at the end of a 12 hour shift at work. If you are ill, you need to rest. If you don't, you can get more ill.

I had a bad cold with cough that turned into laryngitis after Xmas took weeks to shake off I’ve never felt so ill in my life.

I think you’re right, I think a lot of people have already had it and either not realised that’s what it was or had it very mildly and not sought medical help.

My dh - who never gets unwell- had the worst case of flu / pneumonia two weeks ago that he’s ever had. Completely floored him, horrible hacking cough, high temperature, took the week off work (unheard of). I have never seen him so ill. We joked between us saying it was Coronavirus... you do have to wonder!

I was not CV but it was horrible, I was writing more just to show how we managed to not spread it amongst the occupants of the house.

I bet if you’d asked this question a year ago you’d have had similar responses.

My son had a seriously weird high temperature 3 weeks ago, no other symptoms other than a little cough but he was fine. I’m now wondering wtf that was.

My dd's school was deep cleaned in December as most of the kids had a rotten cough with a very high temp. It was highly contagious.

I guess we will never know.

Highly probable, but there are a lot of other nasty viruses going round though. I got sent home from work last week with one. Still feeling absolutely rotten and now DH has got it. No one has got up yet in our house today :(

No. Don’t know anyone who had flu, including myself.

Ooh It had never occired to me. My OH was stuck down by a flu-ey virus, as were most of his maitenece team and three workers were off with pnuemonia.

They put it down to working in a very hot enviroment where germs spread easlily and they go down like flies

Clearly there have been some very nasty viruses around this winter but it's actually ridiculous to suggest the new virus might have been one of them. You only need to look at all the critical and deaths where it has taken off in the community, do some of you honestly think that wouldn't have been noticed?

The OP is asking if you know anyone who has had Pneumonia recently, not other normal viruses.

Someone close to me had a weird virus flu over Christmas, had breathing difficulties and a cough that lasted weeks and weeks I was really concerned.

There are lots of virus that go round. I work in a school and see them spread. Between christmas and february half term our school has had chicken pox, scarlet fever and 2 cases of a mumps like illness (waiting for confirmation) we seemed to have escaped norovirus this year. There has been a bug that has a high fever and a lasting cough that went round staff and pupils. Whilst i think it is incredibly ulikely it is covid19. It is easy to speculate - our town has a huge chinese population of students, many went home for christmas and came back again a couple of weeks inyo Jan. But china is massive so who knows if they went to wuhan.
I take comfort that the hospital hasnt been overwhelmed with viral pneumonia yet so its not likely been an issue.