To think the amount of people we know who have died or are dying from CV is proportionately high?

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Between DP and I, we know 3 people who have died and one who is very likely to due in the next 24 hours from/with Covid-19. We live in Yorkshire.

My old hairdresser who was 38 DP's workmates husband who was a 60 year old GP (she is a nurse) and my workmates Mum who was in her 80's and lived in a care home but was very well on mothers day. My sisters FIL has early onset alzheimer's and is 58, currently in hospital but they had to complete a DNR for him this morning and they are refusing to admit him to critical care or for ventilation.

DP thinks this is probably an average amount that most people will see in this pandemic (he is frontline NHS so quite fatalistic) whereas I didn't think we would know this many people who would die, in what is essentially a month long period.

AIBU to think this is quite high or are you all seeing similar? It is very much adding to my long list of worries.

I know two people who have been hospitalised with it, but are recovering now. One in her 60s, one in her 30s, neither with underlying health conditions.

My sister works in a local care home. They had several suspected cases and were sent 5 tests. 4 of them were positive. All 4 have died this week, plus 4 more who are untested/unconfirmed but showing all symptoms. The care home have kept it very quiet - staff sworn to secrecy.

I know one person who has had it
One person who thinks they might have but wasn’t tested
No one who has died
I work in an area where I would expect to have heard about more people who have had it or died from it

I don't know anyone who has died or anyone who's been tested.
DH had something right at the beginning of lockdown, a fever with a cough. He was ill for about 5 days and did isolate as much as possible for the week. I developed a dry cough at the same time, but nothing more.
So we may have had it. Or something else, there are always bugs about.

I am NOT scare mongering. The point was I have found it very unusual, as before the pandemic the last person I know who died was my ex MIL in 2016. 4 in a month is just hard to wrap my head around.

I knew my ex hairdresser and my DP’s work colleagues husband well enough to stop in the street and talk (always sat with him at hospital do’s as we both in paediatric safeguarding), didnt know my lovely work colleagues mum that well at all, but obviously know my sisters FIL very well.

I know off people who've died, friends of friends but not anyone I know personally.

I also know a few families who suspect they've had it.

NW I know two people who have safely died of it, although other health issues were cited too. I know 11 people who have had it and recovered including myself, although most of us are not back to full fitness a couple of weeks on from recovering from it.

I know of one person who has had it and is now fine. I live in Hertfordshire.

I know personally one confirmed case (got it early on after skiing in Italy) and 4 others who had all the right symptoms at the right time so very likely had it. All recovered at home including one who has an underlying condition. Interestingly their families didn't really show major symptoms.

I live in a South East commuter town just outside London. I know of 1 person locally who has had it, she was in hospital for 3 days on oxygen (in her 50s). A friend in his 3ps who's a doctor in London had it, was not seriously ill, compared his case to flu. I don't know anyone else who has had it.

Rates are higher among some ethnicities. It may be that some people live in social groups that have been harder hit.

Yes, I would say amazingly disproportionately high OP. Are they all in the same cluster or something?

I live in the hardest hit borough in the whole country and only know of one person in any way connected to me personally who has died (and this is someone that I knew vaguely but couldn't describe as close to me or a friend).

I know of another person in hospital on oxygen but not ventilated. This is the mother of a friend - I haven't ever met the mother. And actually she lives a couple of boroughs away.

I know of about 10 other people (including my own husband and son) who have had the illness but have managed at home.

I know four people who’ve had it - all have recovered or are recovering but still in hospital.
Two were ventilated (both women in early 40s), one is now home.
The other two were in HDUs (both men, one 89yrs old, the other in his 60s), and are now home.
Thankfully I don’t know anyone who’s died yet, but I know it will happen sooner or later.

OP, I suppose the thing is that there’s clusters around, so if there’s a cluster of cases in one of your social circles, then you may well know a disproportionate number of people who are ill. It’s not like the cases are spread out evenly throughout the population.

And from a numbers point of view, the more infected people you know, the more likely you are to know people who’ve died from this.

I know one person and know of another three who have died. The one I knew was 91 and in poor health. Two of the ones I know of were about 90, and the fourth was the grandfather of a colleague. I assume he was quite old, because his granddaughter is in her early 30s.

I know a couple of people who have had symptoms but weren't tested, so don't know.

One on ventilator but seriously fit for age and hanging on. Has been a champion for others a lifetime.

Two nurses. Both London and special people who died as they lived, caring about others.

any pattern for me is the best most caring going.

I know 3 who have died from it. I know at least 5 people (and rising) who have had/ still got it. This number is rising. But I am a nurse and most of these were colleagues/ spouses of colleagues. Only 1 I know who wasn’t working surrounded by it. Shitting it tbh.

I don't know anyone who has had it as stated before but I can say that I am very proud of my 3 sons in law. Youngest has to keep going to work or lose his job but they are at least making 3d face masks. ( I do, however, worry about my youngest daughter and 5 month old grandaughter.) Oops 6 months today!

Middle son in law is a Navy Medic and has been deployed to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth ( obviously not coming home to Weymouth at weekends anymore) to work on the Covid19 ward.

Eldest son in law has designed the set of gears for Mclaren's personal respirator, working from home for the firm he works for. Now that firm is making the 10,000 sets of gears. Mclaren chose his design!

I don’t know anyone who’s had it, never mind died from it despite living in the Welsh hotspot of Monmouthshire .

We know one person that was hospitalised with it, and one that thinks they had it early on.
No deaths.

London/Surrey borders. An old work friends Dad died (had cancer and nearly died a few times before) and another friend of a friend had it and recovering

I work in central London, live in zone three. About eight colleagues and I are fairly sure we have had it, had known symptoms and three of us passed it on to partners. It came into the office late January/early Feb after a couple of people came back from skiing in northern Italy, with colds and coughs.

I was ill five weeks ago now, mildly, with recognised symptoms, including loss of smell/taste.

Two colleagues were quite bad, one of the spouses very bad but improved.

DP was dire just before lockdown, we were so scared. He's well on the mend but I still feel a bit rubbish/fluey/knackered everyday, which I think has been partly masked by WFH (and painkillers for a a badly broken finger). I just can't seem to shake whatever it is.

Dont know of anyone dying.

I live in an extremely rural part of N Ireland and know 4 people who have died locally, one who has recovered and 3 people who currently have the virus. The rurality of the area seems to mean that the virus has spread very quickly and tracing contacts certainly hasn't been an issue.

I’m a London Transport worker and it seems to be affecting a lot of colleagues parents. Two of my colleagues have lost their mums to it and two others dads are in ICU.

OP it does sound like your experience is unusual. I have been thinking over the last few weeks that mine is too.

Re a pp's question, all the people I know both those who have died and those who have recovered and are recovering are in different circles, including the family members, and none are connected to each other. Others in their respective households haven't had it as far as we know, although several live alone.