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Have you caught Covid recently - updated poll 2022-23

Have you caught Covid recently

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Riklet said:
Anyone else got contacts who are testing positive for ages at the moment, not 5 days regularly bandied about.

My housemate is still testing positive after 8 days.
Other housemate also has covid now too.. possibly from work rather than home though.
Friend in Bristol (NHS worker so cant work) still got a faint line at 11 days.
My mums carer in her 50s was only ill for 5-6 days though.... hrmm.

All double or triple vaccinated. Maybe this is normal?
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I only tested negative on day 11. My initial line was pretty dark though, and I probably got it from my youngest who sat on my lap and breathed in my face for ages so quite a viral hit.
 
Riklet said:
Anyone else got contacts who are testing positive for ages at the moment, not 5 days regularly bandied about.

My housemate is still testing positive after 8 days.
Other housemate also has covid now too.. possibly from work rather than home though.
Friend in Bristol (NHS worker so cant work) still got a faint line at 11 days.
My mums carer in her 50s was only ill for 5-6 days though.... hrmm.

All double or triple vaccinated. Maybe this is normal?
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Know someone who tested positive for nine days.

I've been positive for six now. Though line is getting fainter.
 
Government advice says this.



How long to stay at home​

If you have COVID-19, you should stay at home while you're infectious to others.

This can be for up to 10 days from when your symptoms start. Many people will no longer be
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infectious to others after 5 day
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Also says,

While you’re no longer required by law to self-isolate if you have COVID-19, you should still stay at home and avoid contact with other people. This helps reduce the chance of passing COVID-19 on to others.
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Riklet said:
Anyone else got contacts who are testing positive for ages at the moment, not 5 days regularly bandied about.

My housemate is still testing positive after 8 days.
Other housemate also has covid now too.. possibly from work rather than home though.
Friend in Bristol (NHS worker so cant work) still got a faint line at 11 days.
My mums carer in her 50s was only ill for 5-6 days though.... hrmm.

All double or triple vaccinated. Maybe this is normal?
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Gramsci said:
Government advice says this.
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I looked at it like they're was the chance of early release of you tested negative before ten days but it is likely to be ten days. I think that's a better way of looking at it. See yourself as lucky if your clear it early, not unlucky if you don't.
In our most recent round my husband got a negative on day 8 or 9, my parents were still testing positive at 10 days,me and my son tested negative on day 5 but I suspect I'd already had it a few days before my positive test.
 
I had Covid three weeks ago, faint line but I was pretty ill, lasted about a week. I started testing positive on day 3, negative on day 5 although the sweats didn't quite recede until about day 7.
 
Sasaferrato said:
The number who say that they have had it, but are not complaining of being really ill is heartening.

Is it going to burn itself out?
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Not sure what you mean. How is it going to burn itself out ? The virus has for now mutated into a milder variant and a majority of people in Western countries are vaccinated, meaning a far larger number of people won't get seriously ill or die. As long as large sections of the world population remain unvaccinated, the virus will keep being potentially dangerous to many.
 
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Reno said:
Not sure what you mean. How is it going to burn itself out ? The virus has for now mutated into a milder variant and a majority of people in Western countries are vaccinated, meaning a far larger number of people won't get seriously ill or die. As long as large sections of the world population remain unvaccinated, the virus will keep being potentially dangerous to many.
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And as long as some future mutation - quite possibly developing amongst large groups of unvaccinated - doesn't result in more severe outcomes...
 
Came-in this morning to a close contact warning. So off to the work testing centre and awaiting the results.
 
All of us tested negative except one - who wasn't triple vaccinated. So he's been given a PCR and sent home for ten days, whilst we have daily testing to look forward to.

Guess who is doing the awful crack-of dawn daily online status meeting from home for the next ten days! :D
 
I had covid two weeks ago. Tested positive for three days. Symptoms lasted around four days and were mild - sore throat, a little bit of coughing, snotty nose, and feeling rather spaced out. It's left me with a bit of a dry cough, but nothing serious. I've had far worse 'colds', and tbh pre-pandemic, this is the kind of thing I'd have kept going through.

Everyone I know who had delta was knocked sideways by it. Everyone I know who's had omicron has been relatively ok.

If you've been triple-vaccinated, it is very likely to feel like a relatively mild cold. It's crazy that NHS advice still doesn't fully reflect that, but probably too late now anyway. Once testing is no longer free, I doubt people are going to pay to get tested every time they get a sore throat even if they know that is a major sign - sore throat was my first symptom.
 
Before I stick you on ignore, just explain what the fuck are you on about, or are you just regurgitating stuff other posters may have said as I chose not to be jabbed.
 
Griff said:
Before I stick you on ignore, just explain what the fuck are you on about, or are you just regurgitating stuff other posters may have said as I chose not to be jabbed.
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Unless you have a specific medical reason to avoid vaccinations, you made a foolish choice. I'm not picking on you particuarly. I say that to everyone who hasn't been jabbed. Still not too late. Even one dose is much better than nothing. :)
 
littlebabyjesus said:
If you've been triple-vaccinated, it is very likely to feel like a relatively mild cold. It's crazy that NHS advice still doesn't fully reflect that, but probably too late now anyway. Once testing is no longer free, I doubt people are going to pay to get tested every time they get a sore throat even if they know that is a major sign - sore throat was my first symptom.
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I know a couple of people (both triple jabbed) who had Covid recently and were quite ill (both 40s and no health stuff going on). It seems to affect people a bit randomly sometimes.
 
I tested positive a week ago and had a couple of days with fever/shakes. Fully vaccinated.

But - I was in a household with flu (someone tested for that) and I had the flu vaccine too.
 
Tested positive, well a feint positive line on the lft. Had 3 jabs.

Feel out of sorts, achey legs and internal organs, woolly headed and very sleepy.

Hoping a nice massamam curry will knock it out of me 😁
 
I was beginning to think I'd got away with it, two years in and not caught it even when my husband got it.

Felt very tired on Thursday evening and Friday morning my throat felt a bit sore and I didn't feel 100%. Lfts negative, went away over the weekend and my throat was horrendously bad on Saturday, had to take a trip to the chemist for throat lozenges and painkillers. I couldn't talk at all, the pain was this awful burning sensation. Sunday my throat started to ease up a bit, the snot started. Today I went to work thinking it was a cold, the worst was over. Though I have the voice of a 60 a day smoker. Negative lft again this morning.

Started to cough a bit tonight, tried to sleep and the cough got worse. Did another test just to reassure myself and I got two strong lines the moment the liquid absorbed up the test, literally within a minute of putting the drops on it. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. There was nothing this morning.

Is this day 0 in terms of testing or would that be Thursday when I first started to feel a bit under the weather?
 
littlebabyjesus said:
I had covid two weeks ago. Tested positive for three days. Symptoms lasted around four days and were mild - sore throat, a little bit of coughing, snotty nose, and feeling rather spaced out. It's left me with a bit of a dry cough, but nothing serious. I've had far worse 'colds', and tbh pre-pandemic, this is the kind of thing I'd have kept going through.

Everyone I know who had delta was knocked sideways by it. Everyone I know who's had omicron has been relatively ok.

If you've been triple-vaccinated, it is very likely to feel like a relatively mild cold. It's crazy that NHS advice still doesn't fully reflect that, but probably too late now anyway. Once testing is no longer free, I doubt people are going to pay to get tested every time they get a sore throat even if they know that is a major sign - sore throat was my first symptom.
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We are both triple-vaxxed and were quite unwell, for me it wasn't as bad as the time I had really bad swine flu, but although it didn't feel life-threatening in the same way as that, it wasn't that mild in the way you describe it, and I definitely felt considerably more unwell than a bad cold, let alone a mild one. OH was worse than me and in bed with a fever for several days.

I am glad that it is like a mild cold for some people, but that isn't universally the case, and I still wouldn't want my elderly parents getting it.
 
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