If you or someone you know had serious covid - how soon after infection did they have to go to hospital?

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I keep reading there's a two/three/four week lag, is that your experience?

DH was day 12 when the ambulance came. He was home after three days.

DH - Day 6 of symptoms hospitalised, most likely infected 7 days prior to symptom onset.

Family friend became unwell and was admitted after about three days and discharged weeks later. He was readmitted within a week and thankfully made it home after a month.

I think it's somewhere between day 6 and day 12.

I had covid in March last year. I started symptoms the same day as Boris Johnson.

The weird thing with covid is that it starts mildly and gets worse for the best part of a week, before it starts to get better. That's kind of unusual because usually viruses start bad and get gradually better.

What I found was that I was just super tired for a few days, then got too weak to sit up, and then couldn't eat or drink. By about day 7 I was really struggling to breathe. I think it was about day 8 that I started to feel a little tiny bit better and then it was maybe about day 10 that Boris Johnson went into hospital (or thereabouts)

Anyway, as I understand it, it's around days 7, 8, 9, 10 that things are really tricky, if it's going to go that way. You want to start to see things picking up by about days 8, 9, 10 really to feel as though things are going the right way Good luck.

Mil hospitalised 7 days after symptoms started she died 36 hours later.

Relative asymptomatic for five days after positive test. Developed symptoms on fifth day and died on 7th.

@WhenZoomWasJustAnIceLolly

Relative asymptomatic for five days after positive test. Developed symptoms on fifth day and died on 7th.

She was presymptomatic then.

My Grandma went to hospital four days after the positive test, was released after four days back to the care home and passed away two weeks after her hospital admission

Eight to ten days is the average for the patients we have been seeing hospitalised.

None of the people I know who have had Covid needed to go to the hospital.

@neveradullmoment99 what a sensitive comment… FFS.

@WhenZoomWasJustAnIceLolly sorry about your relative.

These posts are really sad. Brings home the reality for some people.

2 weeks

Depends on general health and pre-existing conditions. Have seen frail with chronic respiratory admitted within a day of presentation of symptoms. Healthy adult 7-14 days after first symptoms. Seeing some apparently healthy young adults admitted now.

[quote MrsHerculePoirot]@neveradullmoment99 what a sensitive comment… FFS.

@WhenZoomWasJustAnIceLolly sorry about your relative.[/quote]
Get over yourself.
It was neither sensitive or insensitive.
Stop making it into something it's not.
I made NO comment regarding the situation.

My DH got a positive lateral flow on a tuesday, a positive pcr on a Wednesday and on the saturday 111 sent an ambulance. They kept him overnight, but i had to ring again the next night and they kept him in a week. His main problems were very high temperature, fast heart rate. and low oxygen levels.

7-10 days

It was neither sensitive or insensitive.* Stop making it into something it's not.* I made NO comment regarding the situation.

The comment itself was not insensitive. The fact that you chose it as an appropriate response was.

There is a time and a place to be a pedant @neveradullmoment99

He.

And yes, it seems he was presymptomatic. Asymptomatic was the term the hospital themselves were using hence me using it 🙄

Day 10 was when my breathing issues started.

Day 8 - ambulance came but was able to stay home.

Day 10 - ambulance back, admitted to hospital.

Indian variant.. Early 30’s, very healthy, no underlying conditions.

DH's colleague - started with a sore throat on Friday evening, was taken to hospital in an ambulance on the Sunday evening. He went straight onto a ventilator and never regained consciousness, died 8 weeks later.

This was March last year. Since then therapeutics have improved so much, I often wonder if he could have been saved if it had happened now. He was only 48 (a couple of underlying health conditions but CV as opposed to CEV, he would've been group six in terms of vaccination).

That is so sad @TheVampiresWife