Where did people actually catch COVID-19?

[NewAndImprovedNorks]

I have tried to google and have been trying to find some statistical data.
Either I am asking the wrong question, or just being a bit dense with the search terms.
I wonder if anyone could suggest a resource with factual statistics concerning how most coronavirus was contracted.?

I am particularly interested in how many cases were contracted at supermarkets / walking dogs / handling mail etc. In other words, normal everyday tasks.

BTW, I am NOT a journalist, I am just interested to discover how it has ACTUALLY been transferred to help me with some (Mostly friendly) arguments and with my (mostly mild) health anxiety

Thank you to anyone who can shove me in the right direction

The only people I know with confirmed cases are NHS workers so likely caught it at the hospital where they work.

I possibly had it, as did a colleague, so I suspect it was going round our open plan air conditioned desk sharing office as well.

The three people I know:
1 pharmacist in the community, who then passed it on to her DH and 2 DDs.
1 chest consultant in the hospital
1 SAHM, does school run on 2 buses twice a day.

I only know of one person who had it. An elderly neighbour of my mother's. She fell, hurt her ankle and went in to hospital. She caught it in hospital and died there. She was 90 but seemed to be in good health for her age.

My friend caught it on a skiing holiday. I’ve known two to catch it in a care home and two in hospital.

@Arnoldthecat

Its a curious thing but i dont know anyone directly who has positively been identified as having had COVID. Furthermore i have a friend who is in the funeral business and he assures me that his business and several others have never been so quiet. Quieter than a non Covid year ! .

If we have had 45,000 extra deaths in the last 3 or 4 months, who is processing them and where are all the bodies? I drive around ll day at work and im not aware of fleets of hearses on the roads..

Why is it that the share price of one of the biggest funeral businesses in the UK, Dignity, has dived over 50% in the last 6 months??

But funerals have not been allowed? So people are spending a lot less money on them...

Confirmed cases I know of were in care home (not been anywhere else and someone was discharged to the home who had been positive )

One probably at work.

Others no idea.

Lots of suspected cases around the local schools before lockdown.

@MedSchoolRat

See This OP.

I believe that most transmissions are within home residences, with the occasional super-spreading event outside homes.

Be careful with this "study".

1. not peer reviewed
2. data from dec-feb, when china is cold and even if outside, most ppl could have face coverings.
3. quite a small sample.

MAinly the 2nd point is the important one.

@beela

The only people I know with confirmed cases are NHS workers so likely caught it at the hospital where they work.

I possibly had it, as did a colleague, so I suspect it was going round our open plan air conditioned desk sharing office as well.

Where are you, OP? Because where I am, FD’s had a very busy April.

They think there was about 1300 separate imported outbreaks hence why spread in U.K. was much wider and less dense than other counties.

These were from Italy and Spain.

I suspect I caught it from a swimming gala where some of the swimmers had been skiing during half term the previous week. My symptoms started in the right time frame.

None of the kids had symptoms.

I didn't have the typical symptoms we were told to look out for.

But I did have all the ones listed on the Zoe app which have come out since I recovered. Which took weeks.

It is also now believed that 10% of the population are superspreaders and responsible for 80-90% of infections.

There has been outbreaks on farms, in churches, in community groups etc. Care homes and hospitals.

It appears none in schools or supermarkets although that doesn't mean people from these settings haven't contracted it. (I work in a school!)

NHS worker here.

The only people that I know who have had positive swabs for Covid19 are colleagues who were redeployed to work on Covid19 rehab wards with me.

Of course it can’t be proven that it was contacted at work so won’t go down as a work related absence on their sick record 😲🙄.

There has been outbreaks on farms, in churches, in community groups etc. Care homes and hospitals.
It appears none in schools or supermarkets although that doesn't mean people from these settings haven't contracted it. (I work in a school!)

183 outbreaks in schools in the last 4 weeks. Page 11 of the latest COVID surveillance report: www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Two friends caught it just being out and about in London during March.
Another came back from Austrian ski resort the day before they locked down.
Parents of children at school caught it working as carers.

Thank you all.
This is very interesting and I am so sorry for those of you who have caught it, and especially for those of you who have lost friends and family.

Thank you for sharing your stories

@MedSchoolRat thank you for that study.

Any more studies / evidence / data would be very gratefully received

Where do you get “ But funerals have not been allowed?” from @WhispersOfWickedness
They were allowed, in all but two or three council areas, which stopped them for a very short period. Attendees were limited. So there would still be a hearse going to the church or crematorium? Or is there a different vehicle option?

@ClashCityRocker

I suspect most people don't actually know.

There's quite a long incubation period, so it could be anywhere you'd been fourteen days previous.

It would be interesting to see how many people who genuinely haven't left the house (and don't live with others who have) for the duration have caught it.

I’d think that would be none. Are you thinking of transmission on post etc?

I caught it at the theatre. I don't go out much so I'm pretty certain. I was ill 3 days later.

I don’t actually know but am assuming I caught it from the ward I work on. We have had Covid positive patients with us throughout. And have recently closed the ward to new admissions due to a new outbreak on the ward.

@ClashCityRocker

I suspect most people don't actually know.

There's quite a long incubation period, so it could be anywhere you'd been fourteen days previous.

It would be interesting to see how many people who genuinely haven't left the house (and don't live with others who have) for the duration have caught it.

Just a point

the incubation has a known incubation period from 1 to 11 days with the average being 5 days. 14 days is the maximum believed incubation so has been set for isolation

I have organised several direct funerals over lockdown, at a cost of roughly a third/quarter normal cost, so imagine the funeral directors will make less per funeral. They have been very busy though, getting temporary extra storage etc.

Almost everyone I know had symptoms end of January, February and early March. Lots of my son's school friends were ill (late teens) and all of my staff were ill. I was unwell late February, so assume I either caught it at work or from DS.

I’m certain I caught it at work (paramedic), DH would have caught it off me. Adult children did not catch it despite living in the same house and taking no special precautions. We all cooked and ate together, used the same bathrooms, watched tv together etc. They had no symptoms but were tested and were negative.

The people I know who had it either got it through work or from the supermarket

Soft play or supermarket for me 😢

I personally know 2 people who have tested positive, one being my mum. Both are NHS workers at a major hospital so very likely caught it there.

I think I had it (back in March) and if I did it likely came from my friend who I had seen 2 weeks prior and fell ill the week before I did - was with my toddler too and she was fine

BiL got it at Cheltenham, as did everyone over 45 who was with him (minibus full of them). Younger group didn't seem to get it.