Where are all the people with Coronavirus?

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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

Intresting reading of a drug trial:)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-cure-hope-79-year-old-italian-man-successfully-treated/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

www.hoover.org/research/coronavirus-isnt-pandemic
... even though self-help measures like avoiding crowded spaces make abundant sense, the massive public controls do not. In light of the available raw data, public officials have gone overboard. To begin with, the word pandemic should not be lightly used. Recall that the Spanish influenza pandemic, fully worthy of the name, resulted in perhaps as many as a half-billion infections and between 50 and 100 million deaths, world-wide, of which some 675,000 were Americans, many coming back from Europe in the aftermath of the First World War. The World Health Organization recently declared coronavirus a pandemic at a time when the death count was at 4,000, presently being just over 6,500. It will surely rise no matter what precautions are taken going forward, but what is critical is some estimate of the rate.

My DS's best friend - a girl - her mother died from cancer last summer. Her Dad has CV and collapsed today.

Thats a really interesting article by Hoover institution.

My next door neighbour reckons she has it, but they won't test her. GP said it sounds exactly like it, though, based on her symptoms.

DD and I may have it, but can’t know for sure.

I do hope immunity tests become widely available as if it turns out I’ve had it and I’m immune, I’ll be able to help out without worrying too much.

I've got it. Feel truly awful and been in isolation since beginning of the week

I'm sure I had it last week,
Woke one morning with
cough and temp 39 but felt OK, rang work they said don't come in, call 111 and health at work.
111 didn't want to know as not deemed high risk to have it (even though I'm a nurse working in hospital).
By that night my symptoms were horrendous, coughing, banging headache, felt like my head would
Explode, temp above 39 with chills, achy.
Lasted a few days, then just felt like I had a bit of a cold.
Honestly never been that ill before, felt like I was dying.

But on the other hand, I'm not sure I have had it as DH and DS are OK.

Will never know due to lack of testing!
Feeling better now but t still coughing, so still in 2 week isolation according to health at work rules.

We started with a cough, feeling so tired, constant head ache. Kids had colds. Then shivers and all had temperatures. Not major coughs and breathlessness but basic feeling of shit I cant move to do anything, body aches, hot and cold. Dh full of cold. Ds temp of over 38 after calpol.... wheezing for him tonight. 111 said it sounded like coronavirus but honestly who knows.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/19/younger-adults-are-large-percentage-coronavirus-hospitalizations-united-states-according-new-cdc-data/%3foutputType=amp

I can be as sure as possible without testing that i've had it. I have the published symptoms but also crucially close-ish contact with a tested person and also in safe smallish workspace, someone who'd returned from italy. I started with a stiff neck followed swiftly with a migraine. Had intermittent fever during migraine which isn't usual for me and then was really tired with on off chills next day (again tiredness normal after a migraine) I started coughing later that day. I'd initially not attributed that to the virus at all, just a co-incidence but now seen quite a few people with suspected CV-19 saying they've had a bad headache so wondering if that's part of it.

A couple of days prior to the headache and other symptoms, I'd been a bit lethargic and instead of going up the two flights of stairs to work, I took the lift on the last day as i'd been out of breath getting to the top the day before. Now I'm not super fit but I go up those stairs every day normally with no issues - only really pieced it all together afterwards. I didn't know about the confirmed case until I called in to my boss to report ill and was then told of the person then in hospital (and subsequently confirmed) and a couple of others with symptoms like me.

Maybe theyre too ill to be live tweeting the virus thats potentially killing them?

Maybe theyre too ill to be live tweeting the virus thats potentially killing them?

Maybe stop the OTT language? It’s hugely serious, the people who have it probably feel like shite and and not like going online, but it’s not going to “potentially kill” the vast majority of people who get it.

Oh @migginsmrs it has the potential to kill every single one of us... the fact that it probably wont doesn’t remove its potential. It’s not OTT language at all.

No, it has the potential to kill any one of us not every one of us and the recovered are testament to that.

So yeah, stop with the ott language

It’s still not “potentially killing” everyone though

I posted the other day to say my household has it as does my DD's household (my DS got it from a COVID 19 contact and he inadvertently passed it on at a family gathering).
My FIL is the only one of us that had no signs, nothing, until he was carried away on a stretcher tonight, suspected COVID 19 and stroke. Admitted to hospital with strictly no visitors. For anyone in any doubt, please please stay in. 1 case here (we live in a remote part of the country has infected 6+ people.

@JulietTango I’m sorry for my grammatical imperfection... I’m not English. I’m sure
Your pedantry will stop the virus in its tracks. Any single one of us makes it sound like only one. Every single one of us has the potential to be killed by this disease. Perhaps the colloquialism of my language is lost on your perfect English my message however is not OTT.

You may not give a fuck and prefer to focus on interpretations of grammar but I will not apologise for using language that needs to impress how fucking important fighting this disease has become and you might prefer woolly language that doesn’t get the true message across and give us all smiles and rainbows instead - meanwhile I’m in the real world. Have a lovely life.

Maybe they are so Ill they have forgotten about being twats on social media?

@StinkyWizzleteets

Maybe if you're not British you should think more carefully about what you write then.

Killing everyone - everyone dying

This is what you have said. Can you not see this is much more scary than

Killing anyone - you may die or you may not

Is much more accurate.

It may be pedantic but in scary times such as these people don't want to think everyone is going to die when in fact the vast majority will recover

I think I'm on about day 12 of it. Started with cough, incredible tiredness, really itchy eyes, aches, headaches. Feels like tiny fires in my lungs, like someone is squeezing my chest, blocked nose, ears feel blocked too. No temp.

DH started around same time with headaches, diarrhoea, he has high temp but no cough, aches, tiredness.

Dd(14) only symptoms tired, aches, blocked nose.

I had flu as did dd back in Jan. It was flu( I'm a respiratory nurse so know difference). This feels different.

If you’re suspicious that it’s not really happening, don’t worry. Next week you won’t be.
If you’re suspicious that you don’t know anyone with it, don’t worry. Next week you will.
Yes, most people will recover but this assumes some access to medical care for many. Think about whether you’ve experienced the NHS being overstretched before now.
In Italy the army are moving bodies because they’ve run out of places to keep them.

I found out yesterday that a colleague's fil, who died a couple of weeks back after a long illness had it when he died. It was one of those things that slipped out when it was supposed to be a secret. I think a lot of people are keeping it quiet for fear of causing panic/being judged.

Found out yesterday that a family friend has died of it. She was in S London.

My brother thinks he had it, said it lasted about 5 days and was different to normal flu but not any worse, no breathing issues for him - of course because they are not testing it's speculation.