How many people do you know that have had Corona virus?

[WomenHour]

I currently know 0 so far luckily.

4

6 children and 7 adults. 2 of those adults died.

I know a person in London who had it just before lockdown, mid 50's pretty poorly but recovered ok and a friend's elderly mother who sadly passed away in a nursing home in May.
I and some of my family had a virus with identical symptoms around Christmas last year.

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1. He was fine after a week.

It's hard to empathise with the hysteria because I know no one who has been seriously ill or died, even indirectly. I live in London!

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No one. I don't even know of anyone I know that knows someone who has had it.

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"It's hard to empathise with the hysteria because I know no one who has been seriously ill or died, even indirectly. I live in London!"

50,000 people have died.

It's hardly hysteria, is it?

3 including myself and DH (he is a HCP and we got it at the start when PPE wasn't being used enough). Striking to see how many of those listed on here are HCP or families of them.

I stayed at home but I was very unwell and I am young and fit. It's no joke.

@roarfeckingroarr

1. He was fine after a week.

It's hard to empathise with the hysteria because I know no one who has been seriously ill or died, even indirectly. I live in London!

I’m guessing from this post that empathy isn’t something that comes naturally to this poster.

I have found this thread an eye opener, to be honest, it’s clear I’ve been very lucky to have been so little impacted by Covid.

Seems to be a case of extremes; those who seem to know someone actually know many and there are folk out there who know nobody and no acquaintance who’s had it either. We fall into the latter camp, a big fat zero thankfully.

I know at least 25 (7 within my family, 3 confirmed by antibodies and the others symptomatic contacts of those). 5 of my family were very mild, one was mildly unwell but for a long time, one had a pretty bad acute illness but not bad enough to need hospital. Within the larger number I know of one death, three hospitalisations but all recovered now, one with long term symptoms though not hospitalised and all the rest fine now. Most of these people had family members living with them who were not symptomatic so may or may not have had it.

None personally. DH’s colleague needed paramedics but recovered well. Uncle’s friends brother who sadly died. It really isn’t hard to empathise.

2 I know personally. And ‘know’ 3 people, parents neighbours, 1 of whom died.

I know a lot more who isolated With symptoms early on when testing wasn’t available, so can’t be sure one way or another.

Around 30 confirmed cases. 6 of those doctors (5 caught it presumably from work, 1 skiing!). I live in London. Many more friends think they had it in March but at that time weren’t tested. None of the 30 ended up at n hospital.

Eight confirmed, including myself and my husband - we tested positive over the weekend. Five are all close family members, also just tested positive. One is someone who caught it at the very start and is fine now.

We’re just having mild symptoms. I wouldn’t have thought it was corona, I’d have thought it was a light cold that was never taking off.

@roarfeckingroarr

Do you have to have first hand experience of something to care about it?

2 - both work in our local hospital

1 they died

None.

2 of DH's colleagues back in March. 1 in July. All three early 40s with minor symptoms.

15, 1 death, 2 others seriously, all spread out through the last 4 months, SIL just yesterday who works in care home. Our family and friends haven't met up since march, have done everything we could to avoid it but still picked it up via work(nhs & service industry) /supermarkets. Scared for DD going back to school but trying not to show it.
So many have been really lucky with 0, but my heart goes out for all those deaths.

1 colleague very ill but not hospitalised after foolhardy skiing trip. 1 colleague has antibodies but never felt ill. Db thinks he had and had long tail symptoms.

3 family members. All nurses working with covid patients. Two had flu like symptoms and one didn't know until the antibody test. They had colleagues in their 50's that became very unwell with it and one had one that died.