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How many people do you actually know had COVID?

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BolloxtoGender · 13/02/2021 17:38

Out of curiosity, how many people do you actually know had COVID or sadly died with it?

So in our company of about 1000 employees, 40 people (including their immediate family) have had COVID and recovered.

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480Widdio · 13/02/2021 21:18

Nobody.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 13/02/2021 21:20

People I know who have died from it - my grandfather's BIL and my co worker's father.

People I know who have had it - my mum, 3 other family members, 19 of my co workers.

Lostinspace23 · 13/02/2021 21:22

Over the last few months we have known a quite few people - several colleagues and their families, our DDs nursery staff, several friends. All pretty ill but not seriously so. I know one very fit and healthy friend who’s had long Covid and my dad who was hospitalised and had a collapsed lung and ongoing heart problems. One of my colleagues was one of the very first cases confirmed in this country back in late Feb, and we’d been in close contact, so it has felt very real to us for quite some time!

PinkTonic · 13/02/2021 21:22

The only people who don’t know anyone who has had covid are probably the same people who deny it even exists

What a ridiculous thing to say. I know one person who has tested positive, my son. He lives in London and had it at Christmas at the height of the rapid transmission. I don’t know anyone local to me who’s had it, none of our friends or colleagues or neighbours or our other children. I think my daughter has had some cases at work, but none of her friends or her husband’s family has had it either. I’m definitely not a Covid denier, I’m shielding! I am shocked some people know so many personally.

Campervan69 · 13/02/2021 21:23

I know loads who have had it and recovered including DH and me recently.

Don't know anyone who has died from it.

Huginamugg · 13/02/2021 21:29

2 I know directly as in niece, her husband (no symptoms)
2 friends of friends.

XenoBitch · 13/02/2021 21:30

My neighbour had it. My aunt had it. A few FB friends had it. MY mum runs a company and had staff off with it. The one death I know of was someone who was in hospital for end of life care and picked it up there.

Oh, accidental shitty haiku...

My neighbour had it.
A few FB friends had it.
My aunt has had it.

DustyMaiden · 13/02/2021 21:31

8 all ok

CandleWick4 · 13/02/2021 21:32

Depends on what you mean by know I suppose. Directly and personally I know of 4 people since last March who have had it and all recovered.
Indirectly I would say maybe 3 or 4 more. Out of interest how are people aware of 50+ people having it? Not sure I even know 50 people.

purplebagladylovesgin · 13/02/2021 21:33

Five, two have died, one 40+ and one 90+, one has long covid, the other two didn't have symptoms. It's so random.

Rillington · 13/02/2021 21:42

I think I had it in March last year but didn't have a test.

I am sure my Dad had it in November 2019 he was ill for weeks and lost a lot of weight.

A neighbour died in September. He was a diabetic.

My brother's work colleague died. He had no underlying health conditions.

Nobody else.

ChocOrange1 · 13/02/2021 21:46

I know three people who tested positive or had antibodies. One of them was mildly ill and the other two were symptomatic.

I know 4 or 5 people who think they had it in the first wave but were never tested as they weren't ill enough to be hospitalised.

I only know of one person who died with covid - a friends father in law.

NeverForgetYourDreams · 13/02/2021 21:46

3 people. All recovered

ConnectFortyFour · 13/02/2021 21:47

12 people who I know well enough to say hi to in the street. Many more acquaintances.

Nobody died unless you count the 80 year old who recovered but then died of something else.

MeMeMeYou · 13/02/2021 21:52

10 extended family members - cousins, sis in law, bro in law, bro in laws sister and dad, niece. 2 were hospitalised one in ICU all seem to have recovered

5 work mates

MeMeMeYou · 13/02/2021 21:54

Neighbour’s parent died of it, forgot that

chocolateoranges33 · 13/02/2021 21:57

No one in my social circle or any of my friends/families wider social circle either!

amicissimma · 13/02/2021 22:06

I know about a dozen people who have had it symptomatically. Only 3 took to their beds and they all caught it before lockdown 1. Several people have tested positive but not felt at all unwell.

I have also heard of the deaths of 4 elderly people I'm acquainted with who were admitted to hospital very unwell but didn't have Covid. They died, as expected, but tested positive after some time in hospital so are counted in the 'with Covid' stats.

I don't know, or know of, anyone who has been hospitalised or died due directly to Covid (apart from via media, like Boris).

BogRollBOGOF · 13/02/2021 22:08

Ex colleague & her family
SiL's family ( different country)
Friend's child.

I know of some more as connections of friends/ aquaintences, and that's going into a pool of thousands of people so hardly surprising. The two who died were very vulnerable to the next nasty illness going around.

I suspect that DM had it a year ago... she picked up a nasty chest infection in hospital and had a long recovery including a DVT scare. It was just before it really came onto the UK radar at Feb half-term, so wasn't known to be in the community at that point, but has since proven to be.

Covidwoes · 13/02/2021 22:10

I've had it, DH has had it, two friends and their DHs and 4 primary age children.

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 13/02/2021 22:14

3

  • one asthmatic in her late 20s, presumed diagnosis as you couldn't get tests then, fully recovered
  • one in his 80s, hospitalised but fully recovered
  • one in her 50s / 60s (not sure whether or not to include this one as I literally haven't seen her since about 2009 and only know because she posted it on facebook) hospitalised and recently released from hospital)

I don't know anyone who's died unless you're literally talking about a friend's aunt's friend who had a ton of comorbidities and was in a care home (and, I gather, it was probably a blessing in disguise). It's all a bit six degrees of separation at that point.

On the flipside, I know one friend in his early 20s who died from a form of cancer that's normally highly treatable after his treatment was delayed in first lockdown. And another relative in her 80s who is now dying of cancer after it was discovered too late to do anything (not sure how much of an impact covid had on that one, but I suspect she didn't go to the GP when she first had symptoms because she literally never left the house after March due to shielding).

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 13/02/2021 22:18

At least 50.
I work in a hospital and we've nearly all had it. We had 2 huge outbreaks in the 2 depts I work in.
DH and I both had it.
I don't think we gave it to anyone else.

Bythemillpond · 13/02/2021 22:18

Too many to count. All my family except one person, all my friends, their families, friends of friends and children’s friends and their flat mates
I know 3 people who have died. They were all healthy individuals. None I would consider old. Mid 40’s to mid 50’s

Janedownourlane · 13/02/2021 22:19

Only 1. Very mild symptoms.

Bythemillpond · 13/02/2021 22:19

If anything the old and the clinically vulnerable it hardly affected