Is Covid rife now ?

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Me and my family are double vaccinated and have all just had Covid, so i do have confirmation bias at the moment, but is Covid just rife now in the UK?

So many people in my company have it too, (office job, work from home and go in very periodically).

Does it seem to have spread where you are too?

Confirmation bias here but yes, I know 12 people with it at the moment - 6 older teens locally and all connected and the other 6 are adult friends in three different areas of the country. Prior to this I probably only know 20 or so people who had it since the beginning & most of those were in London in the first few months. The numbers here were very low throughout (until now!).

I know two of the local teens who did positive lateral flows having spent time with positive cases but apparently haven’t bothered with PCRs, along with the pp who said the same that’s terrifying - I wonder what the real numbers are if a lot of the positive cases aren’t being recorded with PCRs!?

(the teens & their families are all isolating btw, I just don’t get the logic of not getting a PCR etc)

@whatswithtodaytoday

Many reasons for not doing a PCR, mainly just too difficult to get them and process them, particularly with a really fuzzy head. The online form is onerous when you are not feeling well. It says you can get 4 tests in one go, there are 5 of us in the family. I completed one application and only one arrived, did another and 2 came. The first one the test tube was cracked so couldn’t use, the second one had to be posted back, I’ve been too unwell to go out.
We hadn't been out anywhere as just finished isolating for 10 days from 1st son positive so no other contacts.
We had lateral flows at home and just don’t need all the extra hassle when feeling so unwell. I could get one know but you need them within 8 days of illness.

I think the whole system is broken. My son who caught it at euro final along with 3 others on his table and none were pinged or traced and there were loads at the football club he was at.

A few weeks ago it was 'rife' but seems to have calmed down a lot here.

All young people really though - with no serious cases / hospitalisations - more bad cold type of stuff

It's pretty bad, 1 in 75 are estimated to have Covid in England. This is one of the highest rates, but I think it was as high as 1 in 55 during the January peak. Although perhaps it's not too bad considering that we are no longer in a lockdown (even though people are still limiting contacts to a degree, WFH etc..).

My workplace (small food retail business working throughout the pandemic) managed to avoid a single case until the last month - now it's everywhere. Don't know if it's down to mask-easing or what.

Don't know anyone with it right now. That's probably because schools aren't in.

I still don't "know" anyone who has ever had covid.

My cousin who I last saw 4 yrs ago & like but have only met 6x in her life for about 3 hrs each time, she lives 5000 miles away; she had it in June 2020.

Colleague's daughter who I met once for 5 minutes on the street maybe 5 yrs ago -- she had it in December 2020.

Some colleague of DD's last week (I never met)
etc.

@bellsbuss

A few weeks back , I knew lots of people with it and now I don't know anyone who has it.

Same here.

Central London & I know 6 people who have it or have had it in the last 2 weeks, but only 2 have been seriously unwell & neither of them have been vaccinated.
My friend is a midwife in a central London hospital & currently has 3 patients on the ward (in an isolating room) with a positive test.

The only time I knew more people with it was Dec & Jan, but I work in a school & the last 2 weeks of term was a bit mad with positive cases.

Nope, I don’t know anyone who has caught Covid recently. I don’t believe it’s lack of testing round here either as I know plenty of people recently who have taken PCRs/ LFTs.

It seemed to be ‘rife’ here in December/ January. Pretty much everyone I know who has tested positive did so during that wave, with a couple who tested during the first wave.

Nope none here, no classes at school closed since October last year. I’m in an area that had high numbers Match 2020 (probably much higher than recorded as loads round here were ill but not tested) and again on the run up to Christmas. Nothing much since then.

I don't know anyone with it. I think we all must have caught it in the first wave.

NE here. Until a month or two ago I couldn't name anyone I spoke to regularly who had it, but loads (including me and my family - DH and 3DCs) have had it recently.

I didn't know anyone who tested positive until just before Christmas and then there were loads. Then no one again until today when I heard one of the girls (early 20s) I went on a hen party with had picked it up that night. I panicked at first until I was told she thinks she caught it snogging a lad on the way home about an hour after I'd left. She's the groom's sister and has passed it onto her dad who hopefully won't be too ill as he's double vaxxed. The whole bridal party has effectively gone into lockdown now!

Surely you report your lateral flow test as positive and that gets counted as well ?

Yes I think so
I'm double vaccinated
Work in a high risk area(hospital). Not a sniff of covid for me throughout. Even though I've cared for covid pos patients-
Until couple weeks ago. I caught it
I've been pretty rough.

Lots of other colleagues been off too
Live and work in a major city.

We’re currently isolating as DH tested positive in Monday. We know several people (not linked to DH) either isolating due to being a close contact or a positive test.
We live in an area where it was all quite low but things have really ramped up…

Very bad here a couple of weeks ago. Coming down here now but still lots around.

@ILiveInSalemsLot

Not here but it was rife here last December when everyone we know had it. I’ve got my fingers crossed for herd immunity.

Andrew Pollard from the Oxford Vaccine Group has said that herd immunity is no longer possible due to the delta variant and people becoming reinfected even after vaccination..

www.politico.eu/article/herd-immunity-not-a-possibility-with-delta-variant/

You can log your lft on the government website as positive. I log ours for work and school every week.

We caught it at a family wedding recently. dozens of other guests seem to have had "sore throats" "summer colds", food poisoning" "week long hangovers" "migraines" and "flu" at approximately the same time that we had covid.

DH's cousin literally said the words "Well it won't be THAT, will it." when DH suggested people should test for covid. And they all keep telling him that they're vaccinated.

1 admission and two nights in A&E with covid symptoms from this wedding that we all know of.

But we all took lateral flows on the morning of, and most of the adults have had at least one vaccine, so all this illness can't possibly be covid according to DH's family.

Hi stand tested positive yesterday, me and kids had test this morning, expecting it to come back positive. Adults double vaxxed.

Just back from holiday to be honest I'm not surprised at all, there were no measures in place at all, anywhere.

DH got his pcr back today and is positive. The rest of our PCRs came back negative and according to the new rules (Scotland) we don't have to isolate, although I suspect I do have it. DH and I double vaccinated, the DCs are not.

I know far more with it now then I ever have. There is loads of it about.