Where are the mild cases? :(

[Jrobhatch29]

We live in a town that has over 100 confirmed hospital cases and a fair amount of deaths. They say for every death theres alot of cases in the community. But nobody on facebook/parent groups/community groups seems to be reporting being ill (and i hope it stays that way) . Is there even mild cases out there?

[thecatneuterer]

@buttcrackmcheese That's interesting. How did they manage to get tested? (I'm not being snide/sarky/disbelieving - just genuine interest).

[jasjas1973]

It's diabolical that no testing is taking place. It just doesn't make sense

The Govt didn't order our Pharma industry to make the chemicals required for the tests, Germany did, it told Roche to manufacture! it's now not possible to obtain the tests, due to world shortages and the time required to produce.

So now they tell us all that mass testing isn't required and we can treat/isolate at home instead :(

German levels of testing are staggering, aiming for 500,000 per day!!! so in 40 days, they would have tested almost their entire population, meanwhile UK, should it achieve its 100k per day, will take 3 1/2 months.
Embarrassing and costing lives.

[Frompcat]

I'm not convinced a lot of people on that burning lungs thread actually have it.

[Afolnerd]

We have potentially had it.
Ds aged 4 started first with a temp and generally feeling unwell. He coughed for about 10 days, he started 3 weeks ago and he is still having odd day where his temp goes up a bit and he is a bit droopy but otherwise seems fine.
Dd aged 6 started with the same symptoms about 4 days after ds. She seems fine now.

5 days after ds started dh had a temperature and the following morning we both woke up feeling terrible, really achy and flu like, sore throat and headache. Both felt really ill for about 4 days but only dh had a cough. Both feel fine now.

Older 2 kids didn’t have any symptoms but ds 16 seems to have an immune system like an armored tank so not really surprised.

I think it probably was it as I never get ill even when the kids bring home bugs and whatever it was really floored me. No way of knowing though.

[BearSoFair]

@Quartz2208 That's interesting, I'll let him know you were the same! It's definitely strange, he had Marmite on toast this morning and couldn't taste that at all but can taste milder sweet flavours almost normally again.

[IToldYouIWasFreaky]

I've heard a few reports from friends and colleagues where people have mild symptoms (bit of a cough, slight fever) and so self isolate but they weren't sure if they had it.

I've also heard of fewer cases where people have been fairly sure they've had it, i.e. laid up in bed for a week with more severe flu like symptoms but have recovered at home with no medical intervention needed.

I don't know anyone who has been tested and no one who's been hospitalised.

We just don't know the extent of this without better testing.

[dontdisturbmenow]

Interesting thread.
OH spent 4 days early March with someone (including 6h car travel) who showed some symptoms at the time but not the fever and cough so dismissed at something else at the time but later tested positive as he became quite poorly. His wife was very poorly with it, as where his parents in law and sadly one passed away.

4 days later, my OH started to feel what he referred as 'odd' and extremely tired. No symptoms otherwise and back to normal 2 days later. 5 days afterwards, I started with a sore throat and quickly afterwards mild breathlessness. I then had the burning lungs, tight chest, and one night of just elevated temp. I otherwise felt absolutely fine. Remained with a mild level of breathlessness for 2 weeks, some days better done days worse. Even after what I deemed fully recovered, I have the symptoms coming back very mildly.

My GP deemed that I had it based in the breathlessness. It was all so mild though, I can't help but think it must be another chesty virus, but the timeline make sense.

Reading that some people with mild/very mild symptoms similar to mine have tested positive makes more incline to think that maybe I did have it too.

[flowerpeaceful]

NHS is doing a survey about it, if you think you had it, then please go to the website tell NHS. I have paste the link below:

www.nhs.uk/coronavirus-status-checker

[Roostersmum2]

My neighbours brother has just tested positive for covid and has no symptoms at all. He has just had a kidney transplant so was tested because he's an inpatient.

[UYScuti]

The mild, cases by definition, fly under the radar

[CadburysTastesVileNow]

Don'tdisturb - snap!

[Tfoot75]

We think we had it in my family, very mild but completely different symptoms to a cold - would be very odd to get a random respiratory virus at this time and it not be that one. Kids hardly had symptoms at all, both dh and myself had painful tight chest, slight dry cough and breathlessness for 3 days. I had a mild fever and dh didn't.

I'm asthmatic and if I hadn't been watching for it, would have carried on as normal and may not even have noticed it. The rate of spreading makes it pretty clear that a massive number of cases are mildly or asymptomatic, as the instructions to quarantine with symptoms have been going on for quite a long time, there would be hardly any community cases by now if everyone showed those symptoms.

To be honest, I hardly coughed compared to many of the coughs I've had, and my fever was never over 37.8 and dh didnt have one. We were pretty sure it was it though and isolated for 14 days following advice, but strictly, we actually didn't have to.....

[NamedyChangedy]

I think DS1 and I had mild cases quite early on. Fever, dry cough and fatigue. Normal breathing though. It wasn't severe enough to go to hospital but we kept him off school for a few days (just before schools closed), and I had to have a couple of days in bed, but we both bounced back very quickly. It would be fantastic if there was a test that would tell us if we'd had it already.

[WanderingMilly]

The thing is, without a test, no-one can tell. I had a sort of fluey, coldy thing which knocked me out for a couple of days. Was it a cold? was it the coronavirus?
My normal colds take the same pattern - severe sore throat, which clears, then terribly blocked nose, sneezes, feeling miserable and resorting to nose drops. However, I never, ever have a temperature.

But this was entirely different. No sore throat, no blocked nose, no sneezes or sniffles. High temperature leading to aches and shivers, retired to bed for a couple of days. Dry cough but not all the time, just intermittent. The aches were in my arms and shoulders blades then down my spine and settled into my back, such that I couldn't sleep at night even with paracetamol. At one point taste and smell went but only briefly, mild diarrhoea but all that has resolved itself now.

Just have the aching back left, bit of a headache and lack of energy but the worst is over. This was like nothing I have ever had before...was it COVID? No idea. It was bad enough while it lasted, but the fear that it wasn't the virus and that there is something even worse still waiting for me to catch is quite frightening.

[DecafAmericano]

we think we had it in Feb.

exh's girlfriend went to Spain and came back with a virus. We hadn't made the link at that stage to the number of people sick in Spain and this virus but looking back on it, it seems clear that was it.

ds went to stay with them for a weekend and came back to us and became ill the next day. He was in bed for a week - we thought just 'normal flu'. He didn't have a cough but had all the other symptoms. He was unwell in total for 3 weeks.

in the meantime, exh's girlfriend was still unwell 4 weeks later so went to the doctor and they diagnosed her with coronavirus (untested) as by this stage, she had started coughing.

I then got it after ds but I got the cough (I'm asthmatic) and dp got it about 3 days after I picked it up - he was worse than me, got a higher fever and it took him a lot longer to recover.

even a month later, I am not back to full physical health. I'm breathless when I try any physical activity. Dp is still unable to go for a long walk.

there's a good article on patient info that describes how they think it presents between mild/moderate/severe. Tbh if you got it mildly, I'm not even sure you would clock you had it.

one thing that happened to us all - we all lost our sense of taste and smell.

[Afternooninthepark]

I had something mid Feb that any other time I would have said was a cold. Started as a raspy/scratchy feeling at the back of my throat (as though I’d been shouting), then had this at the back of my nose, this went on and off for about a week, then one night I had a really restless night where I had a horrible headache all night at the back of my head which I never get there, then the next morning I felt hot and had a temp of 37.6 so not too bad but I felt absolutely exhausted that day, completely and utterly drained but had put that down to my period. Then for about 3/4 weeks after that I had a tickly but dry cough, normally with colds (tmi sorry) I will cough up loads of phlegm in the mornings when in the shower but never did with this. Didn’t lose my smell or taste so still think it may have been a cold.

[Batmanandbobbin]

I think I had it beginning of Feb. Partner shook hands with several visitors from Xibaipo a Hebei province at work. We both became ill about 4 days later burning eyes, loss of taste, warm, really tired and I can remember laying in bed thinking god I don’t know if I’m going to wake up. But I’ll never know 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sugarfreejelly]

I’ve had a sore throat for nearly 3 weeks, and a bit of a cough. My throat feels like it’s covered in razors or glass. I have assumed it’s a throat infection but my symptoms match those described by Matt Hancock who had a positive diagnosis. I also seem to have lost my sense of taste. I haven’t told anyone as I don’t want them to worry and I’m also getting better.

[Ontopofthesunset]

In this household I had a very mild illness when I had a slight temperature and achy body/headache for 36 hours, sore throat and post nasal drip for 2-3 days, tiredness, lack of appetite and then loss of sense and taste on day 7. On my day 5 DH became ill with much more classic symptoms, including night sweats and shaking chills, and we ended up calling 111 on his day 10 as he was still very unwell and is asthmatic and hypertensive, though on the plus side for him fit and not overweight. They referred him on to GP phone consultation who checked pulse and breathing and told us to call back if it worsened or if he was not improving by day 14. From day 13 he's been getting slowly better - no fever for 3 days now, still coughing, appetite returning. His was a presumptive diagnosis by the GP as he had a classic disease arc.

We are in south west London and know lots of people locally who have had symptoms ranging from mine to his; he is at the moderate end of mild but breathing not bad enough breathing for hospital. One of my sons' friend's dads was hospitalised in our borough but is home and recovering. Our sons (18 and 21) have had no symptoms and we are now 3 weeks post the start of my illness. A friend is reporting that her 23 year old son, from whom she didn't even try to isolate (we did but it's hard in a small house with a shared bathroom) has also had no symptoms at all.

[cantdothisnow1]

I wonder if I have it mildly now. I'm self isolating, I started with a dry cough which is intermittent and a ghastly headache, and now on day 4 I feel exhausted, and my legs ache. No temperature though.

I haven't told anyone other than immediate family (in same house).

Of course it could easily be another virus, will never know unless there is an immunity test in the future.

[cannaethink]

I’m pretty sure I’ve had it, but I didn’t mention it on social media.
I was in contact with someone who had been in close contact with a tested person.
I had two weeks of symptoms including headaches, no taste or smell, tiredness, dry cough, weird irritated chest feeling, occasional broken glass/acid chest feeling, heartburn, lack of appetite. I still have no taste or smell but I’m fine otherwise. My ex (kids dad) also had it, so I can only assume the kids had it too as we carried on normal contact. They had nothing more than a runny nose though.

[TheProdigalKittensReturn]

At home lying on the sofa/in bed feeling a bit shit and not sure if it's coronavirus or something else, probably.

[DecafAmericano]

@flowerpeaceful

that NHS link doesn't give you an option to say you think you've had it

[RainbowsAndReading]

@Astrabees on the Worldometer website it says in the UK only 135 have recovered, 48,948 cases still active with 6,159 dead.

I would imagine that's why the government don't announce recovered figures as it look awful. Obviously this is not a true reflection given the lack of testing for mild cases.