Where are all the people with Coronavirus?

[Wetfloortiles]

I'm just wondering because we have social media etc etc these days and as yet, I haven't seen any just regular people with the virus who can tell us exactly what it's like? I'm amazed there hasn't been hundreds of accounts

Me too!!! Just found your thread searching for people who have it or have recovered. It’s really weird that none have been interviewed apart from that couple on the cruise.

Well we don’t know! We haven’t been tested.

2 people I know well have it and one is updating on Facebook. I’m in text contact with the other. One is much more portly than the other but both over the worst. They don’t know each other so completely separate cases.

Yes but over thousands have.

Pretty certain I have it. Day 9 can't sleep for coughing. Just vomited as coughed so hard. High temp. Feel terrible.

Poorly not portly!

@parrotonmyshoulder but there are about 2000 confirmed cases who have been tested. Where are they?

No MN threads though?

I suppose a lot of over 80’s don’t use mumsnet etc

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3850594-My-lungs-feel-like-they-are-on-fire-Anyone-else Here

@Yester hope you’re feeling better soon

But they are only testing those who are admitted to hospital with serious symptoms. Those people are therefore unlikely to be spending their time updating social media.

Everyone else just thinks they have a cough and will never know one way or another unless their condition deteriorates and they are admitted to hospital

But loads must have got better since the first few cases. Very strange they’ve not been tracked down by bbc or sold a story.

@OntheWaves40 it’s not just over 80s that get it.

Now they've stopped testing most people have no idea if they have it or not.

I've been in isolation since yesterday as I have a cough, temperate and sore chest. However I don't feel especially unwell and if it was any other year I'd take some lemsip and get on with my life.

One of the people I know with it is only in her early 50s. The other in their 70s.

I'm just wondering because we have social media etc etc these days and as yet, I haven't seen any just regular people with the virus who can tell us exactly what it's like?

Someone posted exactly the same the other day.

Your regular people with the virus are not being tested, they don't know they have the virus so they can't tell you about it. Out of 1950 we have 1814 active cases, all of whom are ill, so ill they needed hospital treatment and hence got tested. They will hopefully be around to tell us all about it, but let them recover first

but there are about 2000 confirmed cases who have been tested. Where are they?

Hospital. Only 65 have been confirmed as recovered.

There are quite a few where I am (London) who have had cough and fever over the last week.

My DD (24) has it. Her manager was a confirmed case and she came down with classic symptoms a few days later. She's just about through it now and feeling much better.

2000 is a very small number as a proportion of the population and the rest don't know they have it.

Even if the deaths get to 20000, as predicted this evening, most of us won't personally know one of those poor people, just as we don't always know one of the 8000 who die from flu every year.

Although, something doesn't add up. If there will be "only" an extra 12000 deaths to what we'd normally expect, I don't think we'd be closing everything down.

I work on a bank trading floor, we have had a member of our team test positive. He is recovering well.

There are quite a few people on my fb who are now self isolating believing they have it inc a friend who has been ill since Saturday . She’s been texting and said she feels like she’s been run over by a bus . Cough .. shivers.. aches etc .. feels completely exhausted

Of those 2000 a huge percentage will have been tested because they presented to hospital and admitted because they were very very ill. Their probably not well enough to receive daily mail reporters to sell their stories.

Nobody else has been tested so can only guess at what they’ve experienced.

Maybe learn some Korean and look online considering their excellent testing and recovery rates.

If you’ve been tested, you’re likely to have severe flu like symptoms or worse. I imagine the great majority of those are still ill! This isn’t something people throw off in a week or so.