Covid with no symptoms

[Shehasadiamondinthesky]

Did anyone else test positive with no symptoms? I work in the NHS, I'm 60 and overweight. I tested positive during a routine test but had no symptoms whatsoever. I always assumed I'd end up in ICU. Luckily vaccinated now but just curious if this is common.

This is what is getting me. All the fear over getting the virus when I suspect that a lot more people have had it without knowing. I have full sympathy for anyone who has had the virus and being hospitalised and died, or a loved one has, but for most people it isn't that bad.

This is coming from someone who has had it and has followed the rules through this.

The fact that you are vaccinated may well have a big bearing on how ill or not you are, catching it now. If you'd have caught it prior to vaccination you don't know how ill you may/may not have been. Could have been a lot worse.

Or do you mean you caught it prior to being vaccinated?

Regardless, we just don't always know exactly who will get ill from a virus. We can work out average ages/vulnerabilities but they won't be the same for all individuals.

I'm late 40s, CV due to medication and arthritis and caught covid most likely from school in October. Whilst I didn't really have the main 3 symptoms much I did have breathlessness, etc. But what put me in hospital was the massive rise in my blood pressure. It rocketed and wouldn't come down, even with medication. Even now, 8 months on, it is only at an acceptable level due to two lots of medication.

I worked as a contact tracer. My non peer researched anecdata would say around 10% of people were asymptomatic.