Half vaxxed friends getting Delta

[Porridgeislife]

Has anyone had a notable uptick in friends getting Delta over the last week? I’ve now got 4 friends infected - one very sick (full week off work), two a bit under the weather and one only found out due to a PCR for foreign travel.

We are all mid to late 30s so half vaxxed with Pfizer or Moderna. One has a fully vaxxed mother & husband who haven't been infected whilst her unvaccinated young children have. All working from home and have been for 15 months.

I’ve been quite relaxed about Covid and just taking the usual masks, hands, space precautions suggested by the government (given my age) plus got vaccinated as soon as allowed. However throughout it all, I’ve never had so many friends sick at once - it seems Delta is much, much more contagious?

It's the same in my circle of friends and colleagues, we know more people with confirmed cases than at any other time. I think it is more to do with it currently spreading through our age groups and therefore being more visible to us. I don't know many school-aged children/teens or elderly people outside of relations so I won't have noticed those cases outside of the news

I still don't know anyone who has had COVID at all nevermind the Delta variant.

@Dustyboots

www.skynews.com.au/world-news/covid19-fears-the-new-lambda-variant-could-be-vaccineresistant/news-story/e9d6defcb61a7b0434584be992de1c02

This is being reported in quite a few places at the moment.

In that article, though, the vaccine in question is China's CoronaVac, which we already know is less effective - there's nothing there that says it could escape AZ/Moderna/Pfizer.

I feel like I live in a different country to some on MN. I am double vaxxed as are most people I know, other than a handful of children. I don't personally know anyone who currently has covid, and only know two people who have ever had it, the last being in June last year.

Until two weeks ago I didn't know anyone that had had it. Now my DC are isolating and I know several children with it and one adult.

my dd and all her uni friends have had it/still have it, in the last 4 weeks.

1 in 210 currently has the infection which is rather high.

any other year it would be nothing to write home about, simply flu symptoms

Those of you who know lots of people who have it, do you have young children?

I was similar to you until about 4 weeks ago now loads of people I know have got it or recently had it. Hopefully it will calm down soon.

To add, I live a a city with a relatively high number of cases.

Until end of last week only one friend. But suddenly loads this week and bubbles burst at both my kids school. Entire years sent home. We are not in a hot spot.

I have 3 friends/colleagues who tested positive also week. AFAIK they don't know if its delta. All 3 are in their 40s and half vaxxed with AZ, one has a primary aged child who who also positive.

This feels like the first time I've known more than one person with at the same time

Cases higher in n Wales the nearer to the English border the more cases there are. Friend working in Manchester hospital most admissions are elderly and are home within a few days rather than weeks

DD - half vaxed tested positive this morning and I (double vaxed) am showing symptoms too. So far we are both only mildly effected. Hopefully that continues.

Chardonay no small child contact.

I don't know anyone but we are double vaxxed and many friends are, several had second dose in the last week (AZ) so they in theory were at risk.

Yes, about a dozen people in the last few weeks.

It seems much more contagious, but less severe (at least now a lot of people are vaccinated) as there are a lot of cases but comparatively few people in hospital etc.

"On average, a person will experience a lower severity of symptoms once vaccinated. Of course for a certain % there's vaccine failure where you don't get any protection - but that's rare and tends to occur in older folk and those who are immunosuppressed"

No, but you really don't know if this person would have had it worse without the vaccination.

People wouldn't usually know what variant they had, but we can assume it's the new one due to the different amount of cases etc.

No, but you really don't know if this person would have had it worse without the vaccination.

@Gwenhwyfar We know it's likely.

Hi OP. Know loads of people who've had Covid recently. Not one was seriously ill, mostly mild if any symptoms. Interestingly, it seems a bit random at times re how ill people get. I know lots of people who've had Covid and only 2 have had to go to hospital. Both recovered, one less well than the other though. There is no evidence that the delta variant puts more people in hospital.

@irregularegular

Yes there has been a bit of an outbreak here lately. One friend 50 tested positive a week ago after having 2nd jab 18 June. Second friend, similar age so I think probably similar timing. Daughter just tested positive after having first jab 4th June. All a bit unwell but not seriously. Nobody ever said the vaccinations would stop all infections or illness. And none of these people had reached peak immunity yet (takes 3 weeks after 2nd jab? or thereabouts?)

2 weeks is what we are being told so the one who had a 2nd jab on 18 June should have reached immunity.

I was in hdu covid ward with a lady who had been double jabbed

I know loads atm, probably the most at once since this all started. Most are kids though.

Same here. The local track & trace caller was sympathetic saying her child had been sent home from school today.