To wonder why covid cases are still so high?

[katiemumma20]

I didn’t really know where else to post this but it’s really just a nosey post! If you’ve had covid in 2021 I’m wondering where did you get it from? Supermarket? Hospital? Or another place of work? This post really isn’t meant to be judgemental I’m just wondering! I’m a secondary school teacher and hoping beyond hope that cases take a dramatic plummet between now and the 8th of March as I was disappointed the cases were still at 10,000 today!

I caught it at work. Team of 5 teachers and I was the 4th to test positive. I know I didn't catch it anywhere else because we haven't been anywhere else, and DH working from home. DC were all negative.

DH caught it from the shops. That was the only contact he had with the outside world.

We've been unlucky to have both contracted it separately but we have also limited ourselves so much, we can tell you where we most likely picked it up from.

This afternoon I am going to go to the shops for the first time in 2 months and I am not afraid to say that I feel quite scared at the prospect of being where other people are.
One week after quarantine and I am still not fully recovered at all.

Workplaces. e.g.:

www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/hundreds-isolating-60-workers-test-19885855

I know two people who went into hospital negative and then died. They both had underlying health issues.

The cases are high because it's an infectious vaccine with a rigorous testing regime in place. If we tested for colds on any other typical year the stats would be worse.

Cases of covid requiring medical intervention would be a better statistic to monitor (or compare against main figures).

To the average Joe, covid is not a danger. The majority of the positive cases will be mild.

It's also worth remembering that cases of covid aren't really the metric we should be looking at to determine lockdown restrictions any more.

Now the vaccine roll out is well underway among the most vulnerable groups, and we have solid data indicating that the vaccines reduce transmission and severity of symptoms, the number of daily cases is no longer an accurate prediction of hospitalisations or deaths.

We can have quite high cases of an illness circulating in the population (e.g. flu, the common cold) without this causing jumps in deaths or putting strain on hospitals.

The numbers to watch are therefore hospitalisation rates and death rates.

It wouldn't matter if we had thousands of covid cases a day but almost no admittance to hospital or resulting deaths.

We're highly unlikely to ever get zero covid. We will always have covid cases, just like we will always have flu, and norovirus. It's only a problem if it's causing people to be severely ill.

Mostly likely asymptomatic kids. Both at school, one Infants, one Juniors. DH and I got it mid Jan- in the preceding week, two bubbles burst in the Infants, and a few days into isolation, the bubble for DS in Juniors burst.
Our two schools were flattened by COVID in the run up to Xmas, Infants had to close 2 weeks early, so it seems the Xmas mixing brought another dollop of COVID into the schools for the new year DH still off work.
Am rather worried re 8th March...

My friend doesn't know where he caught it from (as in hadn't knowingly been in contact with someone who was positive and works from home) and my neighbour caught it in hospital this year.
People I know who had it in 2020 all knew where they'd caught it from and it was through work environments, either colleagues or partner brought it home from work.

DS caught it at school. We Wfh, we shop on line, only left house to drive to school. 20% of the class had it.

Family member in their 50s caught it in hospital and later died.

My friend's mum caught it in hospital ( negative test on arrival), she wasn't tested before she was discharged and the whole multi-generational family at home caught it. Sadly the mum died and my friend was ill enough to have to stay in hospital.

Everyone I know school or hospital.

Part of the point is that we don't know because the systems in place don't let us know. In other countries like South Korea, there is much more effort placed on letting people know where/when they were in contact with a positive, and in cluster-testing contacts. This may have something to do with privacy laws here.

I caught it at work in the days before Christmas. 9 other people in the same office also caught it that week, despite Covid-safe precautions.

"People aren't catching it from staff in hospitals, but fellow patients. Staff are PPE'd up to the nines!"

😂 they really aren't. Masks hanging under chins at my most recent visit for most of them.

*"People aren't catching it from staff in hospitals, but fellow patients. Staff are PPE'd up to the nines!"

😂 they really aren't. Masks hanging under chins at my most recent visit for most of them.*

Can't really say as I don't have overview of data across hospitals but my two cents....

1. My relative who works in hospital tells me that full PPE is only worn in ICU where she works. Masks everywhere else. And that in her hospital, they think clusters were started by asymptomatic medical staff, and other staff in the hospital who had to go onto non-Covid wards for whatever reason (because they had breakouts where patients coming in without Covid then went on to develop Covid)
2. I went in for a test in a hospital 2-3 weeks ago and it was noticeable that the nurses and some other staff didn't seem to keep any sort of distancing - I understand this as the corridors etc. are small, but I did not expect the sort of 'let's see if we can squeeze three people abreast in a corridor clearly not meant to handle that many people abreast'' situation I saw again and again

Interesting comments thanks all. I would really disagree with people saying that number of cases don’t matter, only hospital admissions/ deaths matter. As long as there are cases there will be deaths and that is very sad. We also don’t know enough about long covid at the moment and there is some not very nice anecdotal evidence about individuals’ experience with long covid in both adults and children. I for one do not want to catch covid even if I wasn’t to get I severely, as I don’t want to risk getting long covid either.

As long as there are cases there will be deaths and that is very sad

Yes, death is sad. Death from Covid is sad, as is death from flu, sepsis, cancer, heart disease... the government have been clear that Covid is another illness that will sadly cause deaths in our population for the foreseeable future, alongside many other illnesses. The vaccine should prevent the majority of these deaths.

Lockdown has done a great job of preventing flu deaths this year. Should we lock down every winter to prevent them going forward?

Essential workers in our house. One of us almost certainly caught it from work (there was an sizeable outbreak there at that time) and infected the rest of the household. We're all fine now

My great uncle caught his in his care home.

We know this because he hasn't been anywhere else.

While the R rate stays similar, the cases will decrease at a similar rate... we would only see a dramatic drop if the R rate dropped down to like 0.1-0.3

In the last week before half term my DDs nursery colleagues (5 of them) all caught it, possibly from one of the DC. My DS who had his vaccine in December caught it 2 weeks ago from his GF who is an OH and worked with 2 patients who had COVID the week before. I know of more people that have caught it since lockdown than before.

I only know two people that have had it this year, one caught it from work (in a care home) and one while in hospital for a broken ankle.

Increased testing due to variant fears.

I caught it from my DH.
He caught it at work in a prison.

My neighbour caught it at work, a barber shop, presumably from a customer. She then passed it I to one of her dc. The others didnt get if as they have large house and were able to distance themselves .... that was end if 2020 or beginning of 2021