Coronavirus

[integrale_evo]

My symptoms have been so mild that any other time I would happily have gone to work and carried on as normal, just been a bit tired at the end of the day.

My mrs has been basically bedbound for the past 5 days with a hacking cough and struggling to string more than a few words together without losing her breath. I've been sleeping separately to give her the best chance to recover but waking up every hour to make sure she's still breathing.

I genuinely wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Of course, we don't actually know if it is covid or not.

[GG.]

The nhs isolation note only lasts for a week from getting symptoms and say you can go out again when you feel well again.

It lasts 14 days if someone else in your household has symptoms to give time for those symptoms to develop in others.

So you're basically contagious before and during symptoms, but once you feel well again you're not going to spread it. That's not too bad. It's really the early days of infection that seem to do the damage in terms of spreading it.

Most likely incorrect by the looks of it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 20030502v1

Conclusions: The present study shows that COVID-19 can often present as a common cold-like illness. SARS-CoV-2 can actively replicate in the upper respiratory tract, and is shed for a prolonged time after symptoms end, including in stool. These findings suggest adjustments of current case definitions and re-evaluation of the prospects of outbreak containment.

Who knows if you're less infectious after symptoms subside but looks like you can't discount the possibility.

[mik]

I am still alive. My symptoms were the cough and fever. It was not pleasant but I consider myself very, very lucky that my viral load appears to have been extremely low.

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[duncs500]

Glad you're ok Jimmy.

[Marv]

Glad you're ok Jimmy.

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[McSwede]

Glad you're ok Jimmy.

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Good news and same for Harry. Hopefully the missus feels better soon!!

[Broccers]

My symptoms have been so mild that any other time I would happily have gone to work and carried on as normal, just been a bit tired at the end of the day.

My mrs has been basically bedbound for the past 5 days with a hacking cough and struggling to string more than a few words together without losing her breath. I've been sleeping separately to give her the best chance to recover but waking up every hour to make sure she's still breathing.

I genuinely wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Of course, we don't actually know if it is covid or not.

This sounds horrible. Hope you both improve soon.

[scotta]

My Mate was tested positive yesterday. Ended up in hospital with a high temp that he couldn't control. I know of 2 other folk that have probably had it but not been tested.

Update on this - he's had it pretty bad. struggling to get to the loo and having to sit to pee as too dizzy to stand. In addition to him having it his Wife got it but with milder symptoms and her mother got it. She died on Thursday.

[Matty]

All these stories make you realise just how close to home this is all getting. The difference in severity levels even in the same house is bizarre.

My symptoms have been so mild that any other time I would happily have gone to work and carried on as normal, just been a bit tired at the end of the day.

My mrs has been basically bedbound for the past 5 days with a hacking cough and struggling to string more than a few words together without losing her breath. I've been sleeping separately to give her the best chance to recover but waking up every hour to make sure she's still breathing.

I genuinely wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Of course, we don't actually know if it is covid or not.

I'd be calling 111 - barely being able to talk without breathlessness? I'd say that was pretty extreme levels. A bloke on YT who called 111 with less was turned away, and said emergency services would only attend if he struggled to get his words out.

I mean, I don't meant that to alarm you, but might be worth a call to ask them?

[Matty]

Boris is in hospital with it. I hope for his sake and ours he pulls through, we don’t need any more deaths or Gove to be in charge.

Rumours circulating that he's on a ventilator...hopefully that's not the case, survival rates of people with Covid on ventilators is scarily low

[Mito Man]

“Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "still very much in charge of the government" despite spending the night in hospital with coronavirus, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.”

Can’t be heavily sedated on a ventilator but still leading government...

[JonMad]

My Mate was tested positive yesterday. Ended up in hospital with a high temp that he couldn't control. I know of 2 other folk that have probably had it but not been tested.

Update on this - he's had it pretty bad. struggling to get to the loo and having to sit to pee as too dizzy to stand. In addition to him having it his Wife got it but with milder symptoms and her mother got it. She died on Thursday.

Damn. My condolences to them

Scary stuff Harry. Hope your wife gets better soon.

[NotoriousREV]

My mate was discharged on Saturday. Still not 100% but he's glad to be home.

There does seem to be a pattern where 1 person gets mild symptoms and their partner gets it worse, presumably due to the viral load thing.

I hope all those that currently have symptoms get well soon.

[Rich B]

Just had a client cancel an online meeting because his dad died on Friday of it. I expect he was at least in his 70/80s, but it’s definitely getting closer...

[DaveE]

Clinicians get worried when breathlessness = you can't speak in full sentences (just as a yardstick)

[Ascender]

I am still alive. My symptoms were the cough and fever. It was not pleasant but I consider myself very, very lucky that my viral load appears to have been extremely low.

Some good news for a Monday, nice one.

[DeskJockey]

I am still alive. My symptoms were the cough and fever. It was not pleasant but I consider myself very, very lucky that my viral load appears to have been extremely low.

Some good news for a Monday, nice one.

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[Matty]

I am still alive. My symptoms were the cough and fever. It was not pleasant but I consider myself very, very lucky that my viral load appears to have been extremely low.

On the plus side, once it's all over you'll be able to walk around shops like superman. Get a top that says "I had COVID-19 and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt"

[Orange Cola]

Boris is in hospital with it. I hope for his sake and ours he pulls through, we don’t need any more deaths or Gove to be in charge.

Rumours circulating that he's on a ventilator...hopefully that's not the case, survival rates of people with Covid on ventilators is scarily low

He's only 55 too, middle age. I know Boris isn't exactly a picture of health but that's scary.

[Orange Cola]

A close friend lost his dad over the weekend, this is only a couple of months after loosing his mum but neither to CV19. The restrictions in place are the right thing to do but ultimately making that final goodbye tougher than normal.