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How many people have managed to not have Covid in the UK?

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AutumnLeafy · 22/10/2021 20:37

How many people are left to catch covid? It seems like when it's 1 in 50 people currently have it it's not the same 1 in 50 each week so surely we are getting through the population?

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PrincessNutNuts · 22/10/2021 22:36

@AutumnLeafy

How many people are left to catch covid? It seems like when it's 1 in 50 people currently have it it's not the same 1 in 50 each week so surely we are getting through the population?
I think it's approximately 33 million.
Stovetopespresso · 22/10/2021 22:38

*OffCycling

8,689,949 people in the United Kingdom have had covid out of a population of 68,349,862. Figures as of Thursday, October 21, 2021, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

Thank you!*
there are lots of people who won't know of they've had it.

Stovetopespresso · 22/10/2021 22:38

argh IF not of

mrsnoodle55 · 22/10/2021 22:39

I’ve not had it- as far as I know. I’ve worked in the thick of COVID in the NHS for the last 18 months. I see about 6 COVID positive patients every day at work. PPE is ok now but was non existent until fairly recently. I’ve had 2 jabs and a booster, have had 3 antibody tests throughout this time and yet have tested negative for antibodies on all 3.

My 9 year old had it in the Summer-was symptomatic too and it was impossible to distance at home, and yet none of the rest of us (household of 5) tested positive or had any symptoms. I have literally no idea why I haven’t had it / had antibodies. It’s a mystery.

noblegreenk · 22/10/2021 22:39

I'm pretty sure I haven't had covid. I had that awful cold that was going around a few weeks ago but I had negative lft/pcr results. Dh and dd don't seem to have had covic either. Both dh and I have worked for the last year and dd has been in childcare daily, so I'm not sure how we've escaped unscathed. Even our childminder had it, but so far it's bypassed us.

noblegreenk · 22/10/2021 22:40

I should also add that I live in a covid hotspot as well.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 22/10/2021 22:42

Only one of my friends has had it.
None of my close family.
And 5 out of 25 of my colleagues has had it.

So unless it has been symptomatic we could all still get it.

Warhertisuff · 22/10/2021 22:42

@OffCycling

8,689,949 people in the United Kingdom have had covid out of a population of 68,349,862. Figures as of Thursday, October 21, 2021, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
No, those are confirmed cases... The actual number is a lot higher.... Have you forgotten March 2020 when you had to be near death to even get tested!
RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 22/10/2021 22:43

As far as i know i haven’t had it, or dh, ds1 and boyfriend, ds2, fil or my dad, or brother and his family and 90% of the people i know

Dd might have had it in march 2020 but obviously there was no testing back then so we’ve no idea for deffo

TheBlackArt · 22/10/2021 22:57

I haven't had it, and neither has DH.

Nobody in my personal circle (parents, in-laws, friends) has.

RumHoney · 23/10/2021 05:55

In my close family (2 kids, 4 working age adults, 4 retirement age and one 90+) only one of the kids has had it, back when delta first arrived on the scene. Friends and colleagues have had it though.

FreeBritnee · 23/10/2021 05:58

No one in my family or extended family have caught it yet. It’s swirling around us so I’m sure we will, just haven’t yet.

walksen · 23/10/2021 06:07

Depends on where you work I suppose.

I imagine lots of people in health care have caught it.

Most colleagues at school caught it. The only people that didn't were office staff technicians and cleaners etc who don't spend hours in a classroom.

I am still the only person in my family who has caught it. Other family members wfh haven't. Obviously lots of friends catching it at the moment do so from their children but lots of people apparently don't. I suppose this reinforced the superspreader idea that lots of people don't spread it well but sooner or later In high risk environments you run across someone who does.

Dozer · 23/10/2021 06:11

‘Managed to’ ?

Echo40 · 23/10/2021 06:19

To be best of my knowledge havent had it neither have my husband and 4 children.
However I was really ill jan all the way upto March last year which I assumed was really bad chest infection.
Maybe it was covid.

I worked in retail in lockdown 1 so was expose lots of people in a small shop.
We were very strict 1st lockdown I never quarantine mail or bleached my shopping.
I did up cleaning of door handles.
I wore a mask doing the food shop from the start and still do.
Even now I try keep some distance with people and shop at quieter times.
We also made lots decision if we ate out or did activities thus summer outside when infection were really high in July.
My teenager wear masks in class.
My husband works in retail and still wears a mask.
We all wear masks on bus or shops apart from smallest.
The teenagers may have had incorrect negative covid tests few weeks ago but they had a cold they were not really unwell.

I have been really unwell again but think its chest infection again as covid pcr came back negative.
We do regular lft.

chalamet · 23/10/2021 06:22

Nearly half my class were either off with it yesterday or have already had it in the last fortnight. I haven’t had it yet according to LFTs. I’ve applied for an antibody test.

careerchangeperhaps · 23/10/2021 06:25

I'm pretty sure that neither I nor DH and the 2x DC have had it.
Neither have our parents (x5, inc. step parents) nor our siblings and their families (another 10 people).
I'd don't actually personally know many people who have had it.

PackedintheUK · 23/10/2021 06:31

This puzzles me too. Apparently 1 in 100 have it in my area at the moment. And this has been going on for nearly 2 years. The current people will mostly only be considered positive for 2 weeks or so and the same people aren't getting it over and over again, so there can't be many left?

Of four of us, 3 have had positive tests, but I suspect it was DS1 who brought it home asymptomatically because he was the only one going out to work, with the public, at the time. No asymptomatic testing at the time.

SoOvethis · 23/10/2021 06:33

My mum has never had it despite being around our family on 3 separate occasions when we have all had covid - and were not isolating in a room.
This was pre and post vaccine.

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AutumnLeafy · 23/10/2021 06:33

Thanks @PrincessNutNuts. The 1 in x rate always seems so high.

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Maggiesgirl · 23/10/2021 06:33

None of my family or friends have had it although, when it was first reported in Italy wayyyyy back in February 2020, one friends came back from School trip skiing from there and all their family had awful flu like symptoms, I saw them daily but was totally OK. My DH, DS DDIL and DGD all got it as well. So maybe we all had it then

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AutumnLeafy · 23/10/2021 06:34

@Dozer

‘Managed to’ ?
Sorry couldn't think how else to word it
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Justanotherquestioner · 23/10/2021 06:37

It feels like this month almost everyone I know has caught it. Before I didn't really know anyone who had it.
I haven't had it despite everyone in my house catching it last month

Suzi888 · 23/10/2021 06:37

Not had it (to my knowledge) as you have no idea if you’ve had it or not unless you’ve had an antibody test.
My aunt and uncle, in their eighties had it, uncle has emphysema. They both felt sick for three weeks, no cough.
They pay people £750 for getting covid (who work) where I am, so how accurate the figures are is questionable! Lots of fraud.

Londonnight · 23/10/2021 06:47

I haven't had it, nor my adult son who lives with me. None of my extended family have had it either, including my elderly parents [ mid 80's ].
I haven't even had a cold for the past 18 months. I wear a mask whenever I go out, I have to wear one all day at work. I am double jabbed, just waiting for my booster.