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If you know someone in their fifties who has caught Covid in the past 2-3 weeks (so probably Omicron)...

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LilyPond2 · 29/12/2021 22:24

...how are they?
Have seen lots of posts about people with relatively mild symptoms, but conscious that many of them may be a lot younger than 50. Interested in hearing about experiences of people in their fifties who have had (probable) Omicron (and whether they are boostered/double jabbed/unvaccinated).

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 30/12/2021 09:47

I'm 60, triple vaccinated (booster was weeks and weeks ago), tested positive on LFT the other day. Haven't been for a PCR as there seem to be issues with availability here and I am isolating, so what's the point, really. If we weren't in the middle of a pandemic I'd think it was a cold and a tickly cough. I feel tired, a bit rough, and am fed up with coughing, but basically I'm OK, so far anyway. Nobody else in the house has it - again, so far.

vampirestockingfiller · 30/12/2021 09:48

My best friend is 59, she's had it the last few days with just a cough and feeling achey.

SmallElephant · 30/12/2021 09:49

I know two, both mid 50s, both triple jabbed, both extremely mild cases. One just had a cough, the other was asymptomatic and only picked up on an LFT (later confirmed by PCR).

Rainbows246 · 30/12/2021 09:50

@LookslovelyinSpringtime

Why are so many people getting Covid despite the booster? The vaccines are nowhere near as effective as we are being told. Yes, symptoms are milder , but they aren’t giving immunity.
180,000 cases yesterday. This time last year with lower cases my hospital had surge beds open, icu was in theatres too. This year we have 3 covid wards currently and icu only has 5/6 covid patients. Not even half the cases we had last year at the same time.

The vaccines absolutely work for keeping a great deal of people out of hospital or those that are still vulnerable are having stays of less time and are much less sick than pre vaccines.

This was the same for delta too. Even less beds needed as the vaccine worked better for delta than omicron due to the changes omicron had.

Exhausteddog · 30/12/2021 09:51

My 85 year old FIL has currently got it. He lives alone and is up and about, not feeling overly bad.

MerryChristmas21 · 30/12/2021 09:58

@LookslovelyinSpringtime

Why are so many people getting Covid despite the booster? The vaccines are nowhere near as effective as we are being told. Yes, symptoms are milder , but they aren’t giving immunity.
They are preventing a lot of people getting seriously ill/dying -I'd call that 'effective'. They have stopped a lot of people getting it at all, just not everyone, but they have never said they give 100% immunity. They give a much higher %age immunity than we could ever have dreamed of, stop being so anti vax.
AllisoninWunderland · 30/12/2021 09:59

I’m a couple of years off 50.
1 vax last March.
Had Covid 3 weeks ago.
Achy, shivery and headache for 24 hours.
Sore throat and slight cough for another two days.
Fully recovered in a week.
Had flu once, years ago, was far far worse.

LyndaLaHughes · 30/12/2021 09:59

@LookslovelyinSpringtime

Why are so many people getting Covid despite the booster? The vaccines are nowhere near as effective as we are being told. Yes, symptoms are milder , but they aren’t giving immunity.
The estimate is 75% protection against symptomatic infection so of course, people are going to still catch it- both with symptoms and without - no one ever claimed it was 100% and vaccines are designed to prevent severe disease and death which by this thread they are clearly doing.
the80sweregreat · 30/12/2021 10:06

The cases are high but the people in hospital is manageable and the boosters are working , then why the need for eight hospitals to have new ' nightingale' hubs ?
Most people I know over 60 are fine, it's the young that are poorly ( in their 20s or younger)
Will the booster start to wear off for the older people amongst us? I can't believe they are opening them up again.
An expert on bbc news was talking about the ones who haven't had the vaccine yet being in danger of going into hospital , but swerved the question about the booster and when it doesn't work anymore , or maybe wears off?
How will these hubs be staffed if the hospitals are having trouble with staff being off work already ?
I'm beginning to think that there is more going on here.

Thievesoil · 30/12/2021 10:09

My DH . Early fifties. Totally unvaxxed for various reasons. Three day aches and feeling a bit off but not bedridden.

We are quite healthy though - no underlying conditions.

MrsSkylerWhite · 30/12/2021 10:12

LookslovelyinSpringtime

Why are so many people getting Covid despite the booster? The vaccines are nowhere near as effective as we are being told. Yes, symptoms are milder , but they aren’t giving immunity.“

You really don’t understand, do you?

No-one has ever claimed immunity. I’ll take much reduced chance of significant illness, hospitalisation or death, thanks very much.

Rainbows246 · 30/12/2021 10:17

@the80sweregreat

The cases are high but the people in hospital is manageable and the boosters are working , then why the need for eight hospitals to have new ' nightingale' hubs ? Most people I know over 60 are fine, it's the young that are poorly ( in their 20s or younger) Will the booster start to wear off for the older people amongst us? I can't believe they are opening them up again. An expert on bbc news was talking about the ones who haven't had the vaccine yet being in danger of going into hospital , but swerved the question about the booster and when it doesn't work anymore , or maybe wears off? How will these hubs be staffed if the hospitals are having trouble with staff being off work already ? I'm beginning to think that there is more going on here.
What more is going on? I’d love to know. Are the covid patients we treat just acting? Some peoples pre existing conditions mean vaccines don’t work as well and they are still vulnerable. Elderly peoples immunity isn’t the same as younger peoples and they often get sicker. It’s a pandemic.

Hospitals aren’t really managing though and staff are off at crazy levels. I’ve no idea how the hubs are supposed to be staffed but if anything like the nightingales when we couldn’t staff them. My trust has staff off sick for numerous reasons and now covid is impacting quickly and we dont even isolate for contacts anymore just LFT and can come back after 7 days with negative LFT
Everyone is burned out and knackered.

We managed at higher levels of covid in hospital last year because of restrictions and lockdowns. Less mixing meant less general illness and elective surgery/outpatient appointments were cancelled to use the beds. None of this is happening. Everything is being done to not cancel anything which becomes difficult with no staff.

Even if omicron is milder the high case rate will always bring patients to hospital when at a really busy time with other illness too. Winter viruses are rife at the minute it’s not just covid.

It is things like surgery and outpatient that will suffer being cancelled.

3catsandcounting · 30/12/2021 10:24

I'm 58, double-jabbed, and boosted a few weeks ago.
I'm on day 4, and feeling so much better. First 2 days were mainly body aches and tiredness. No headache, sore throat or temp at all. Spent a lot of time in spare room bed with lower back pain and very fidgety legs (much to the disgust of Cat1)

Cocoabutterformula · 30/12/2021 10:35

LookslovelyinSpringtime

For goodness sake, they reduce severity never going to prevent it 100%, have you been living under a rock?

LyndaLaHughes · 30/12/2021 10:59

Just to be clear again- people who keep saying the boosters don't stop you catching and spreading it are categorically wrong. In some cases they most certainly do- just not al which no one ever claimed they would.

"The odds that vaccinated people will catch the virus if a household member becomes infected are nearly three to four times higher with Omicron than with Delta, but booster doses reduce that risk, new findings suggest.
Researchers analyzed transmission data collected from nearly 12,000 infected households in Denmark, including 2,225 households with an Omicron infection. Overall, there were 6,397 secondary infections in the week after the first infection in the house. After accounting for other risk factors, the rate of person-to-person spread of the virus to fully vaccinated people was roughly 2.6 times higher in Omicron households than in Delta households, the researchers reported on Monday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. Booster-vaccinated people were nearly 3.7 times more likely to get infected in the Omicron households than in the Delta households, they found.
Looking only at Omicron households, however, booster-vaccinated people were 56% less likely to become infected compared to vaccinated people who had not received a booster. And overall, when booster-vaccinated people were the ones who first brought home the virus, they were less likely than unvaccinated and vaccinated-but-not-boosted people to pass it to others."

farcas · 30/12/2021 11:10

BIL caught it just before Xmas, Double jabbed and booster. Said it's like flu, spent Xmas in bed (fever, fatigue headaches), been a week now and he's starting to feel better. SIL says she's never known him to have a day off work but even he admits he wouldn't have worked (he missed a couple of days work before Christmas and is off now til New Year)

Thepineapplemystery · 30/12/2021 11:56

Ive been informed this morning that my 52yo colleague has died on 27th of COVID. He tested positive Christmas Eve. No underlying health conditions other than psoriasis. He was fit and healthy. I'm devastated.

Thepineapplemystery · 30/12/2021 11:57

He was vaccinated and boosted. No idea what happened.

Gensola · 30/12/2021 12:09

DH is 56, 57 in a couple of months and had omicron - double jabbed and boostered, he was virtually asymptomatic - slight scratchy throat on day 1 which led him to test then nothing other than feeling a little tired.

LyndaLaHughes · 30/12/2021 12:14

@Thepineapplemystery

Ive been informed this morning that my 52yo colleague has died on 27th of COVID. He tested positive Christmas Eve. No underlying health conditions other than psoriasis. He was fit and healthy. I'm devastated.
I'm so very sorry for your loss.
ashorterday · 30/12/2021 12:25

@Thepineapplemystery

He was vaccinated and boosted. No idea what happened.
Psoriasis is an auto immune condition - If he was on drugs for that it could well have affected the vaccine (my dm used to be on an immuno suppressants for psoriasis and was told the vaccines might not be as effective). Sorry for your loss 💐
Bobholll · 30/12/2021 13:06

Yeh I know a couple over 50’s. Couple colleagues & my MIL. All London/Surrey based so presumably omicron. All very mild thankfully. My MIL was basically asymptomatic, she’s 66. But she had her booster exactly 14 days prior to her positive test.. so I guess max antibodies!

mumda · 30/12/2021 13:27

My friend (double boosted, and 8 weeks post booster) has Covid again and feels a bit rough.

Original poster
LilyPond2 · 30/12/2021 15:02

Thank you for all the replies, and to those who have lost family members or friends, I am sorry for your loss.

@LindaLaHughes Do you have a link to the Danish study (or article where you read about it)? That sounds very interesting.

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Suzi888 · 30/12/2021 15:06

The elderly people I know have had it quite mild.
One 47 year old friend of a friend has sadly passed away, another 48 year old friend of DH said he felt awful for about three days.