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?

I've got symptoms of a cold at the moment - all the guidelines are telling me that it's not Covid but I'm suspicious. Self isolating anyway.

If corona wasn't around I wouldn't think anything other than a cold - sore throat that's red around tonsils, runny nose/sneezing/coughing every now and then. Very slight temp.

But, I'm hyper aware that my throat/chest and breathing feel a bit off - a congested sensation and a feeling of needing to take a regular really deep breath. Taking antacids because it helps clear the blocked feeling. Anxiety is not helping the sensation because having read the lungs threads on here I'm crapping myself!

We had to isolate at the start. My partner was sent home from work as he started coughing and then a few days later the kids and I had dry coughs.
Maybe it was mild covid or maybe just random coughs. No way of knowing

I might have had it, 5 days after being in contact with someone who was a confirmed case I can down with a temperature, sore throat and cough, I didn’t notice any loss of taste/smell at the time but thinking about it I had gone off food and didn’t fancy anything. I worked from home and our family isolated, DH came down with similar symptoms and DS had a tight chest which felt hot. If it was CV it was mild but would love to have a test to know for sure.

I had what I think may have been it - horrendously tight chest and a dry cough and fluctuating temperature. I stayed at home and so did the family but I didn't post about it because
-it felt attention seeking to do so and not particularly interesting

• we didn't need any help or support
• I have no idea if it actually was the virus because the govt aren't really testing

Lots of mild/modern cases on the Lungs threads here. I am recovering but it's been 3 weeks. DH, DS, cousins elsewhere in England, number of probable cases in our workplaces. Mild is still unpleasant in this case, I'm afraid.

I meant moderate, not modern (although it is the disease du jour )

Perhaps we should all paint a cross on the door, like in the plague!

Yes I agree my DD had what I would term a pretty mild case but she said it was worse then when she had the flu. Completely knocked her out for a week and she found the chest tightening scary

For me it wasnt that bad - I have had pleusiry I ended up in A&E with and Swine Flu I nearly did and I wasnt at that stage this time. That said it maybe because I compare it to that it doesnt seem as bad but the lung pain (via the back) and chest tightening was actually scary. But the scariest was not being sure whether it was going to get worse

Yeah, it does feel that way at times, @Standrewsschool. I am not on any SM other than here, but I think people may be a bit reluctant to talk about it because of the fear factor.

DH is an HCP. He says a large factor is how much of the virus infects you. HCPs intubating patients will get a whopping big dose (which is why several have died and why PPE is so important for them) in contrast with someone who's picked up a tiny dose from a shopping trolley, for example. So most of us will be in the latter category and should feel it mildly, unless we have other mitigating factors.

I may have it, I may also have a cold.

I felt unwell one day, took my temp and it was 40, which was a shock, my normal temp is on the low side so I start feeling ill/fevery about 37.1.

For about a week I just had a high temp. I've had a bit of a cough, but it just sounds like an asthmatic cough.

I've felt tired and had an afternoon nap a couple of times.

I more or less self isolate most of the time anyway, I live alone, my carer normally visits 3 times a week, we have cut this to 1, he's had similar symptoms and is wearing a mask and gloves outside the house.

I managed to get a Tesco delivery so I wore a mask for that.

I'm basically acting like I have it for deliveries etc but I've not posted on facebook.

I had a tight chest that felt as if it was inflamed inside if that makes sense. l also had a heartburn type feeling and my upper back and ribs felt tender and sore. I felt a little breathless when walking around. My legs ached a bit and I had a night of awful stomach cramps and diarrhoea.
I also woke up with a sore throat the morning after that and then for a couple of nights woke up dripping wet with night sweats.
Despite this, I still didn't feel that unwell, just tired and symptoms uncomfortable I suppose apart from the stomach cramps which were painful.

I didn't have a cough or temperature though so not sure if it was coronavirus or not. I really wish I knew as I would volunteer too.

I would imagine that's why the government don't announce recovered figures as it look awful

Simply it’s resources.

Assuming, based on our testing criteria, of those tested a large percentage received minimal intervention (oxygen therapy, rehydration, antibiotics for secondary infections) following a hospital admission and then improved enough to be sent home to continue to recover means that resources would have to be dedicated to following them up either with a face to face assessment, telephone call or test. Our critical numbers aren’t completely accurate either but will be monitored more closely to determine capacity.

This will come in time but the focus at the moment (rightly given it’s a choice we have to make) is on those acutely unwell in immediate need of care.

It doesn’t make for particularly comforting stats but the reality is that anyone not included in the fatalities numbers has fairly good odds of being in the recovered numbers at some point.

The mild cases should be SI at home along with all those who don't have CV but do have similar symptoms. Moderate cases also SI at home (with some paracetamol if they are lucky.) Even some severe cases will still be at home struggling to breathe.
None but the most severe (and the most important) get hospitalised and tested.

I don’t know if anyone has mentioned it upthread by zoe global have created a Covid symptom tracker and urge you all to complete it even if you feel well. It is to provide a bigger picture of those suffering at home because the NHS figures are based on those receiving hospital care.

You can view their findings as to how they can use the data of their users to scale up and predict how many people are currently displaying covid symptoms and predict the likelihood of them testing positive if we had a testing programme. The more people that contribute the better their overall picture. They submit their findings to the NHS

covid.joinzoe.com/

My mum is a key worker (NHS) so has been working throughout. She came down with a high temperature on Sunday which is still high but dropping. She also has a dry cough and muscle aches/pains. It’s very likely she has CV. She doesn’t have social media though so as far as I know only her workplace and I know about it.

Thanks everyone. I go between thinking its much more widespread than we know, or thinking its less widespread but more severe x

I work for the NHS. I've been feeling mildly under the weather and have just had a positive test result. If it weren't for the rigid rules for self isolation I would've carried on working and spread it far and wide.

@annonymousse so pleased youre well! The range of illness is crazy

The 'Lungs' thread is ongoing for those dealing with likely Covid 19 at home - it's just about to start thread 7.

The ZOE app from Guy’s & St Thomas’ is tracking people’s symptoms. You can look at their data collated online and it seems that around an average 4% of people in most boroughs are reporting what could be symptoms.

Obviously you have to allow for other viruses and bugs doing the rounds but it’s the best we’ve got without widespread testing.

covid.joinzoe.com/data

I went on the lungs thread a while ago and it scared me so much ive never been back ha

I think we had it as a family around the start of March. Slightly raised temperatures, achy and tired, headaches and upset stomachs for a day or so, then the cough. DH and DS2 latest about 1.5 weeks. I was about 2 weeks then started feeling a lot better but with the odd bad day for a week. Last few days of it I had a tight chest and I wouldn’t say I struggled to breathe, but was aware of my breathing IYSWIM. I’m fine now. DS1 had a mild temperature for 1 day then was absolutely fine. I’m in SW London and like another poster, I know lots of people locally who are pretty sure they have had it. I don’t personally (very luckily) know anyone who has had anything other than mildish symptoms.

Nationwide and reliable antibody testing is the only thing that's going to (among other important things) calm a lot of us and confirm (or not) that the vast majority of cases are 'mild' (in that they don't require hospitalisation).

I'm in Scotland, know of a few folk who've definitely had it, many who might have and a good few who think they had it long before it really hit the news and the current situation kicked off. There's some debate about whether or not this is possible, given corona's high transmission rate, and I did read some late 2019 media reports that hospitalisation for a nasty strain of flu were v high in Nov/Dec (presumably this is based on test to identify the flu virus); but given the first cases were appearing in China in November and identified in the UK in January, it's still possible it was in the population.I was ill toward end of Feb/beginning of March (started with headaches, progressed to terrible sore throat & ears and a bit of a mucky but dry cough & laryngitis). Whatever it was, it battered my immune system and gave me a dose of shingles at its end, and I am fantasising it was corona, but who knows.

Anyway OP, the point is thousands and thousands have been catching it for probably a couple of months, and it's just not reported anywhere, but they're still part of what's clearly a terrible epidemic that also includes 'outliers' ie incredibly shocking fatalities that are defying the general statistics of '80% get mild to moderate' symptoms. The BBC are currently running a fatality vs recovery report (based on limited available stats), and they're saying that (currently) 99% of people infected are recovering. Which is fucking shit for those in the 1% and still sets corona well apart from the flu, but it's important to bear in mind.

I saw that on the bbc. Its the first time ive seen a report on recoveries which was refreshing x