How many people do you know who have Covid symptoms right now and where are you?

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I'm in S London, I am pretty sure I've had it but tests were not readily available when I had my symptoms in March. DH and DC didn't have symptoms so no idea if asymptomatic. Quite a lot of colleagues had it, nearly everyone had symptoms before schools closed in March (I work in a school). At the beginning of lockdown we were delivering food etc to families who were isolating, but we stopped needing to do that by about the end of April. I don't know if anyone in my school community or in my own circle who has had symptoms for a good few months. I'm guessing it's different in different areas and I was wondering what other peoples experiences are?

I do know if quite a few people who have lost family members unfortunately. No one I know currently has symptoms.

In Northern Ireland. I don't know anyone who has had it.

No one I know has symptoms.

It's definitely spreading more now though but I guess they are testing the herd immunity strategy - lots of young people / hospitality staff getting mild cases now.

I know no one who has had a confirmed case, and no one has reported symptoms since March. Parts of my city have had a consistent drip of cases since initially being hit hard at the start. My neighbourhood has not been significantly impacted.

I know some people who had "really bad colds" or chest infections around late Feb, early March, including DM who had been in hospital for 10 days and developed a chest infection then had a DVT scare while recovering after discharge. I cancelled going to see her at that point because I had what felt like a normal cold... I suspect that I protected myself now rather than protecting her!

I know 1. Mild symptoms. She lives with someone who had a confirmed case in may but didn't catch it from her partner then, but has now caught it!

2 people in my office died of it. One a colleague I knew vaguely, one a security guard. I haven't been into the office since January so haven't seen either of them in months. Another retired colleague although he was old and had numerous health issues. Another colleague and his wife had the antibody test as she is a nurse and discovered they have had it but this was a complete surprise as no symptoms.

DD was at Uni and was living in close proximity to Chinese students who returned home to China over Christmas. She came home periodically at weekends. Both she and I were very ill in January with a persistent cough which wouldn't shift. I remember still having the cough when I went to have a tattoo in early February and sucking broncho stop like no tomorrow so the tattoo artist wouldn't slip and ruin the design if I coughed and moved suddenly. My best friend who I spent most weekends with was very sick as was all of her family.

Could have had a test anytime during lockdown as key worker but needed to have symptoms and I didn't. As soon as I can get a free antibody test I am having it but right now it's speculation really.

None
and none that have had it.

I don't know anyone who has died from flu either. Over 10,000 people a year die from flu in the UK. In 65 years I don't know of a single person that has died from flu.

165,000 people in the UK die from cancer each year. In 65 years I know less than a dozen people that have died from cancer.

Over 600,000 people die in the UK each year. Not counting those who have died of old age - I probably couldn't name 5 people a year that I know personally (obviously, I know about others). An average day in the UK sees over 1500 deaths

I'm lucky - but I'm not that unusual.

It is a tragedy when anyone dies before their time but it happens for all sorts of reasons not just Covid.

Just thinking I don't know any flu deaths, either.
I'm thinking that the elderly know the most people who have died :).
So you do have to standardise for age...

Friend died of a stroke at age 21 when I was... 22? That was peculiar. I know someone else had a stroke as a child, left him disabled for life. And a chap who had a stroke at age 43 (when I was also 43). Strokes are feeling more like a risk to my sort of person, actually, than covid.

No one right now.

I know of one elderly Asian gentleman who was hospitalised with another illness, caught Covid in the hospital and died.

I know of one person who died, he was bame, don't know how old he was or whether he had underlying health problems.

I know of one elderly white gentleman who was quite unwell but recovered at home.

I know of one white woman who had it with mild symptoms and only knew she had it from an antibody test.

Know no one with symptoms, no one who’s had it. I’m in an area under stricter regulations in the North West.

Last one I knew of locally was in May

Leicestershire

None. I might have had it end of March / start of April, but not tested.

Don't know of anyone who has had a positive test at all, or anyone who has died.

South east. No one I know has symptoms right now. Someone I work with, and her family, had tests last week as one of her children had a temperature - all negative.

Three people I know had it back in March (or they believe they had it, this was before testing). I don't know anyone else who has had it.

London. I know of 21 with current symptoms: at the peak I knew loads of people including me.

I hadn't known of anyone with it during lockdown.Returned to work and a twenty something lad said he had tested positive with just lack of smell.How parents are doctors though.
I am currently awaiting a home test due to metallic taste in my mouth and altered.sense of taste and reduced smell and tiredness with a stuffy nose.
I almost felt like working.TBH if it is indeed positive it will
be through the way out to help out scheme as 150 customers per day were using it and I worked throughout.
I am moderately careful and constantly hand wash etc.
I did work on a nursing home yrs ago and saw 17 of 55 residents die of flu one winter.Respiratory illnesses rip through those places.sadly.

South East, none at the moment. But my Aunt, Uncle and 2 kids had it, all tested. Uncle in hospital for 8 weeks, and only now recovering. Aunt recovered at home after 2.5 weeks of being in bed. My 2 cousins had relatively mild symptoms and felt much better after a week. Uncle and cousin work for NHS.

no-one, South Oxfordshire.

South East, I don’t know anyone at the moment who has it

In fact I've just looked at the number of cases here & we're averaging 0.4 a day in a population of 140,500 spread out over a fairly large area. So it's entirely unsurprising I don't know anyone with or who has had covid/symptoms!

1 friend and her son had it early on,otherwise no one else. We were all ill with hacking coughs Jan to April (I never get coughs normally) so am suspicious though.

I know one person who had a positive test last week.

Another (unconnected) person has symptoms and is due to be tested tomorrow.

I know 3 other people who have tested positive. Two have since recovered and one sadly died.

None of these people are/were in a high-risk category.

I'm in the SE.

Hertfordshire. Half of my office were ill with covid symptoms in January, I was ill at the end of February (bruising and blisters on feet, headache, temperature, exhaustion but no cough),

DS and many of his friends were ill/off colour early March. Dozens of friends were ill at the same time.

Through work, I know of another, maybe, twenty confirmed cases in March/April, and around another 20 deaths.

No-one I know has been ill since April.

None at all or during whole period. Bedfordshire.

1 staff member tested positive this week at my work place - I'm in Devon

Nobody, and I'm in a high risk lockdown area. Don't know anyone who's ever had any symptoms

None. My sister had it very mildly in April. She is literally the only person I have known with symptoms this entire time. Surrey/Hants border.