How did you catch Covid?

[mineandyours]

If you've had it, how/where did you catch it?

Recently one friend caught it from attending a dinner party - yes, flouting the rules! There were 7 people at the dinner party and apparently they all caught it. He was notified by T&T.

Another friend and her husband caught it but have been so cautious, sticking to the rules, wearing masks etc. They've no idea how they caught it! They developed symptoms and got tested (no T&T).

I think if we knew that for sure in any case we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.......

Work I'm assuming. It went round our team early on before lots of measures had come into place.

Same as @OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea DH and I had Covid (we think anyway) back in January before it was a "thing". I remember going to the GP thinking I had a chest infection because I couldn't get rid of my cough and the GP said it was viral. We had all the symptoms, but of course we can't be 100% sure.

We live in central London and DH works in the City so I'm fairly sure he picked it up in the office where he works with lots of people who travel regularly.

Based on T&T and conversations with the hospital doctors/consultant:

• almost certainly from the school where I teach, most likely from a child (only people I had close contact with) who may well have not been displaying one of the big 3 testable symptoms.

I’d like to know how I haven’t caught it! My DH and 4 DC got it and we’ve haven’t exactly kept apart. DH and I sleep together obviously. Relatively small house, DC haven’t stayed in their rooms. One coughed in my face several times while I was administering the test.

Two possibilities - I’m a teacher in an area with increasing numbers of cases and around half a dozen of our pupils tested positive at the same time, or from my son via my son’s nursery where two members of staff (albeit in a different room) tested positive.

I almost definitely got it at work. I work in a wine bar and when working behind the bar the space isn't even 2m wide so no room to social distance among staff. It went round about 6-8 of us from a team of 20 odd, yet we were all just as close to everyone who didn't get infected as we were to those who did so I think there's some serious research needed into how infectious this actually is/what means some people do/don't catch it. And yes they were all tested/didn't just have it asymptomatically, after a few of us caught it the company paid for testing multiple times and none of them ever came back positive.

Work- in the hospital. Impossible to social
Distance. I passed on to my family.

Pretty sure I got it at work - teacher.

From my child, who caught it at school, I know of a few families who have had the same, all from the same school

I have no idea. I caught it during this 2nd lockdown. I go to work and I come home. Click and collect for shopping.

My 2 DCs both tested negative and they haven't caught it from me.

I work in a creche and personally I think I caught it from a child there. But no other children or colleagues have been ill. I'm completely baffled to be honest

Test and Trace told DP he caught it in Smyths toy shop. It was the only time he left the house in the week prior to the symptoms.

I thought I had it 2 days after him. And possibly the children. We all tested negative.

Three weeks after his positive test I have tested positive this Tuesday. We were only 5 days out of isolation. I had been given lateral flow tests by work and I tested positive on the very first one I took. Confirmatory PCR testwas positive too. No symptoms at the time of either test. 24 hours later I lost my sense of smell. No other symptoms. I might not have even noticed the loss of smell. I'd probably be walking around infecting others by now. I only noticed the loss of smell as I actively checked it.

I can only imagine I caught it from DP and the incubation period is definitely longer than 14 days. The only people I had contact with were my colleagues - all in PPE. And all tested negative on their lateral flow tests on the day I tested positive.

From my husband, who is almost certain he got it from the gym (hadnt been anywhere else)

No idea tbh

Probably work (I’m a teacher) Tested positive over half term, and we had tons out self isolating in the first two weeks back.

DS caught it at school. Now we are all hoping, on day 7, that we can avoid it!

@ShirtyShirly not a scientist or doctor or anything but some people are less susceptible at catching flu too. Perhaps that's why you didnt catch it??

No idea where I caught it. I’d only been doing school runs. Shopping delivered to home and no visitors in three months and I haven’t been to anyone house in two months either. I’m guessing either dh from work or one of the dcs.

In school. From a teenager. I am CV and DH is ECV so I didn't go anywhere else.

Schools are not safe, whatever the government would like to pretend. We've currently got 4 year groups off I believe, and quite a lot of our staff now. I'm still off sick.

I caught it from a friend who I met for coffee. We weren’t breaking any rules. This was when it was still allowed. I thought I was being safe by only meeting one person and not going out with a group. Other than that I was neurotically careful due to being pregnant and having a chronic condition.

I must say that it wasn’t pleasant having covid, but in my case it was like a mild flu. I have felt far worse in the past. The only thing is the lingering exhaustion which could also be pregnancy.

Also important to mention that neither my husband or kids caught it from me thankfully!

We think we had it last year

Dd manages events. She was event manager for a wedding of a Chinese couple who live in London. A lot of the guests were Chinese Nationals who were here for the Wedding Weekend.

She then went down with a terrible cold/flu.
Terrible temperature and cough.

It went through our family.
At the time we hadn’t even heard of Covid.
It was only when we read a list of symptoms that we connected what we had was more than likely Covid. We ticked all the boxes
I think Ds and I both had Long Covid. Again before long Covid was even heard of.

I remember having a huge amount of work to do and knowing I had to do it but just couldn’t actually do anything as I was so exhausted for several months after the cold/flu symptoms had gone.

I normally do a 3-5 mile walk each day. But it was taking all my strength to get to the bathroom.

Another reason we think we had Covid in December was that dd did another wedding in February. Again a couple who were Italian and Spanish so 60 guests from predominantly from Italy and Spain and 12 staff members.

A few weeks after the event dd was getting calls from the agency who had employed her asking if she was well.
Dd was well and couldn’t understand the concern.
When she was asked again a few days later if she was still well she asked why they were asking.
Apparently out of the 72 people, guests and agency staff, dd was the only one who hadn’t gone down with Covid.

At work. I’m a teacher.

@Oliversmumsarmy

When was this last year?

I ask because in June last year I had a 39+ temp, awful cough, really tight chest, no cold symptoms, clammy, exhausted etc for 4-6 weeks in total. I was given antibiotics, steroids, nothing worked, nobody knew what it was, had a chest Xray, they said it was 'probably' the tail end of pneumonia but couldn't be sure. It took about 3-4 months to get over the exhaustion and I got breathless easily for a long long time.

It sounds like it was covid, but the timeline doesn't fit and obviously nobody knew what it was and there was no test etc.

On the tram, 26 Jan or thereabouts. A coughing man sat behind me. Someone challenged him, saying he shouldn't be out with a cough like that. He laughed snd said he'd just come back from Italy. I became ill a few days later, had all the classic symptoms, and was over it by Feb 16.

Caught from my secondary school age DD who was on her last day of isolation (contact with positive case in school) before losing sense of smell. I lost my smell/taste later that day.