Board 8 > Have you ever gotten covid?

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have you?

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Yeah in June

just talking about you , personally

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Currently have it for about 8 days
This shit doesn't want to pass

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Query unclear

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Not to my knowledge, but I guess there's a small chance I was totally asymptomatic.

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I feel like I got it in January but there's no real way to know

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in early March I got incredibly sick very suddenly, I had flu-like symptoms but the doctor said it was not the flu. They didnt really test further, just said it seemed like a "very bad cold" which is def possible. I was in a lot of pain just moving and couldn't stop shaking, it was one of the sickest I had ever been in my life. My girlfriend insists I had COVID but i guess i'll never really know for sure

one of my employees tested positive for it recently and I got tested and I did not have it

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foolm0r0n posted...

I feel like I got it in January but there's no real way to know

So no

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

So no

What else was it. I was literally in Asia too.

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Oh I thought there was a way to test if you "had" it

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Punnyz posted...

Oh I thought there was a way to test if you "had" it

Isn't there some sort of antibody test or something?

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foolm0r0n posted...

I feel like I got it in January but there's no real way to know

This.

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Not that I know of

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Barely anyone had it in the US in January, so just by Bayes Theorem anyone with covid-like symptoms back then was much more likely to have had the flu (afaik there was a pretty nasty flu strain in circulation last winter, which is most likely what the vast, vast majority of those who think they had covid in Dec/Jan actually had).

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Idk

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probably back in march, but like others have said there's really no way to know

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hombad46 posted...

Isn't there some sort of antibody test or something?

thats what I was thinking of

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There's a small chance I got it in March.

The issue with the antibody tests is that they've been found to fade relatively quickly, especially in people who had mild or asymptomatic infection. So unfortunately it may be too late to detect them in people who believe they were infected back in March or so and weren't able to get tested then. There's always the far more involved and expensive test for T helper cells which are also adaptive and specific to the virus. As far as I know the only way to do that is through studies.

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I havent gotten the flu in over 10 years, but I got it this February a few days after attending an NBA game. Maybe it's because I hadnt had the flu in a while, but it was horrible. Definitely the worst sickness that I can recall. There were no COVID cases in my area until a month later, but I still wonder if I had it. Just a really strange coincidence otherwise to get the flu like that, first time in over a decade, right before COVID strikes.

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Unclear, was real sick at the end of february. Fit all the checkmarks.

Was sick with some throat virus in june and the corona test was inconclusive.

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15% is surprisingly high.

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Another one of those "maybe in February, might've just been the flu though" posts here

what makes this interesting though is that in June, the one person in my house who didn't get sick back in February tested positive for COVID-19, but no one else got it

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No. Have been tested like 7 times (yayyy working in health care with mandatory monthly screenings). Had one inconclusive but it ended up being negative. I'm not complaining though. Mommadore is high risk so every time I test negative I get to see her!

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azuarc posted...

15% is surprisingly high.

Actually pretty low

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Nope. I have been tested for it thrice, most recently a couple of weeks ago.

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I'm also in the category of "really sick in January and not sure if was early COVID or a bad flu that the flu shot couldn't kill."

A couple things to do point to it actually being COVID, namely that I did travel to and from Florida that month, where the virus is said to have been spreading at the time. Also, I do remember my sense of taste being dulled.

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I was ill with symptoms about two months ago, for about 3 weeks. Tested negative but test is only 70% accurate apparently in the UK, and subsequent doctors have told me they think I did indeed have it. It was too late to test again.

So technically No, but I'd say probably did have it.

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Sometimes I wonder if I had a mostly asymptomatic case but I think pretty much everything that's been going on with me this year has another explanation

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Nanis23 posted...

Actually pretty low

7.5M cases in the US, a population of 300 million, is around 2.5%, and the US has been among the worst in containing the virus. So yes, 15% is inordinately high. Poll is down to 11 now, but that's still far more than I expected.

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ZenOfThunder posted...

in early March I got incredibly sick very suddenly, I had flu-like symptoms but the doctor said it was not the flu. They didnt really test further, just said it seemed like a "very bad cold" which is def possible. I was in a lot of pain just moving and couldn't stop shaking, it was one of the sickest I had ever been in my life. My girlfriend insists I had COVID but i guess i'll never really know for sure

one of my employees tested positive for it recently and I got tested and I did not have it

you can get a free antibody test done if you donate blood to the red cross right now. won't be definitive of course but could be a good indicator if you had it or not

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azuarc posted...

7.5M cases in the US, a population of 300 million, is around 2.5%, and the US has been among the worst in containing the virus. So yes, 15% is inordinately high. Poll is down to 11 now, but that's still far more than I expected.

no its low

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Im pretty sure I had it in February before it was all over the news. Cant know for sure though cuz there wasnt testing for it back then.
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13% kind of makes sense with the combination of people confirmed to have gotten it or believe they got it and simply weren't tested. For every person who has an anecdote that may have just been the flu, there's probably another person voting no who was asymptomatic and unaware. Recent antibody studies demonstrated a 10% seroprevalence rate as of July in the US (I know not everyone here is in the US) and antibody studies don't paint the full picture of who has actually gotten the virus.

For the record, my "slight chance" was still a no vote.

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got really sick in late January/early February and actually had to be rushed back to the hospital in an ambulance for shortness of breath. Who knows if that was it but I work in a hospital in Boston and commute by both bus and train so maybe!

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My family has been in isolation since the end of February. My wife goes out once every two weeks for groceries, she works from home, and my kids are online instructed.

I'm in the high risk category due to an extremely compromised immune system (I have no Colon or Spleen), so we aren't taking chances.

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I dont have it but apparently you need a test done if you want dental work

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no

although I had a positive blood test in summer, but my follow up blood test was negative, so probably no

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foolm0r0n posted...

I feel like I got it in January but there's no real way to know

I had a really bad dry cough from January - February and for one week there I had a high fever and the runs. Tested negative for the flu and doctors didn't really know what was up, so I think it's possible. But yeah, there's no way of knowing by this point.

Edit: Also my partner caught it basically immediately after I did, so whatever it was it was highly transmissible. She also tested negative for the flu.