How many here have had covid???

[a kennedy]

[LuckyCharms]

1. Not yet, that I know of.

[lapfog_1]

2. me... before the vaccines

[dweller]

29. Same here 3/2020

No masks, no vaxx, no home tests … and no fever so when I called in to ask if I should seek care, was asked ‘ do you have a fever? ‘
No?
You don’t have it … but I had something and was sick as hell for 2 months unable to breathe …

I suppose it was Alpha/Beta


✌🏻

[hlthe2b]

3. Maybe do a poll? But my answer (inexplicably with my constant exposure), is NO.

But I did contract RSV a few weeks ago. Okay now.

[a kennedy]

6. Sorry, I do not know how to do a poll.......can you start a new topic with a poll??? Thanks.

and I trash this thread.

[LuckyCharms]

10. When you hit "Start a discussion" to make a post...

You'll see an option "Create poll" right under where you normally type your post.

[hlthe2b]

12. I'll talk you through it. Just go to GD to "start a discussion" but

scroll down to where you see "create poll" and then it will walk you through the process, which is easy. You really only need three choices:
yes, no and uncertain.

But, it looks like you are getting plenty of responses on this thread so maybe next time.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. I had it in December of 2021.

A mild case but I have long COVID in the form of frequent headaches.

[XorXor]

72. That's around the time I got it too.

I got my third shot (booster) either right before or after I caught the virus. So, I wasn't sure at first if it was the vaccine or the virus making me feel mildly bad.

[Glorfindel]

5. I have. A very mild case after being fully vaccinated.

I consider myself lucky. Some people I have known have died from it. How about you? Have you had it?

[mercuryblues]

7. I came close just before Christmas

But avoided it somehow.

[agingdem]

8. me..twice

vaccinated and triple boosted..

[róisín_dubh]

62. Same...

but given how much exposure I've had in the last several months (I mask, but I work at a university and frequently have to take the train), I'm very grateful for the Omicron booster.
Had a mild case in July 2021 and an even milder case in March 2022. Been good (but more careful for the most part) even since.

[brer cat]

9. I had it at Christmas 2022.

Still have fatigue. Fully vaxxed and boosted.

[ironflange]

11. Vaxxed four times, still caught it a few weeks ago

Fortunately, it was very mild, I thought it was a cold until Mrs. Ironflange made me test. Then she caught it, wasn't as mild as mine, spent a couple of days in bed.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. me. light case.

all 5 vaxxes here .last january.

[CoopersDad]

14. 5 vaxes, 20 tests, no Covid, knock wood.

I did catch something awful that doctors said was bronchitis in December.

[Woodwizard]

15. Timely thread,

Felt off forthe last few days took a test this morning positive. Up to date on vax and booster I go almost nowhere this time of the year besides working in my shop. Oxygen is good very slight temperature.

I can count on one hand the amount of people I have seen in the last 3 weeks, contacted them all isolating from my wife who currently tested negative.

Worst is muscle ache.

[LLC]

16. 3 Times

Each was not difficult for me at all. Very mild.

[WDLAL]

38. Some friends have had it several times.

I wonder why some people seem to be more susceptible. I’m glad all your infections were mild! Three times is scary.

[Goonch]

17. Lots of vaxes how about MASKS?

[Maru Kitteh]

18. I've been testing twice a week since 5/20. No covid.

I've taken care of at least a couple hundred patients with it and had too many coworkers sick with it to count.


I may be one of the lucky folks who can't get it.

[jimfields33]

19. Yep. End of October/into November

First two days severe chills. Second two days hurt throat. Third two days runny nose/stuffy nose back and forth. Find after that. Vaccinated!

[RemboVA47]

20. Covid

My wife and I have had it.

[gopiscrap]

80. welcome to DU

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

21. 3 times here

Wife got it 3 times as well. Kids had it twice. Everyone is fully vaccinated. Wife and I only had mild symptoms every time. Kids had mild symptoms the first time and no symptoms the 2nd time. The 3rd time the wife and I had it, they never tested positive.

[Rebl2]

22. Vaxed five

times and am not aware I have ever had Covid.

[Grasswire2]

23. no covid

but I am recovering from RSV Virus, which now has a vaccine available. Fourteen days of coughing, extreme fatigue, etc.

Interestingly, I caught it in my doctor's waiting room from a little lady who was coughing and coughing with a cheap paper mask.

[NewHendoLib]

24. my wife and I are getting over it

we are double vaxxed and triple boosted - me Moderna, she Pfizer. We both took Paxlovid. She got a rebound case - I may be coming down with one.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Not me - *knock-on-wood* But I did have really bad flu last April, despite getting the flu shot

[JanMichael]

26. Not to jinx myself but no I haven't had it.

Haven't had allergies or a cold or scratchy throat since before December 2019.

Felt a little wonky last summer for a day but had 3 negative tests.

Fully vaxxed and boosted and wear a kn95 in public indoor places.

On occasion have to speak unmasked at meetings with dozens of unmasked people but keep the mask on when not speaking.

Combo of luck and prevention.

[iamateacher]

27. Yes

In July

[spinbaby]

28. Not yet

I’ve spent the last three weeks in hospitals and nursing facilities, so I’m frankly depending on my vaccinations because I’m unwilling to keep an N95 mask clamped to my face for weeks. Staff is supposed to be masked, but that’s pretty lax. Aides go into the covid area with definitely inadequate protection. Covid testing is a joke—the swab barely touches. I’ll be glad to go home.

[sorcrow]

48. Wow

That sounds worrisome. Here's to staying healthy and going home as soon as you can.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[kimbutgar]

30. I think I had the first version in January 2020.

I was so sick couldn’t get out of bed for three days. It was before Covid was a thing. My husband also had this bad flu that we thought it was at the time. Since then no Covid. My son had his 3 shots and tested positive last year but he said it was just like a bad cold and was better days later.

I laugh and say smoking pot has kept us from getting the new strain of Covid! Several people I know who smoke pot have never had Covid. I’m not a pothead but I like a little smoke sometimes.

[shanti]

60. I was sick when you were in those early days

But it lasted for 5 days. Really sick - high fever, terrible headache that wouldn't go away, vomiting, etc. On the fifth day, went to my dr and she could offer nothing in the way of diagnosis. I even asked her if maybe it was this new virus, but she didn't know. All vaccinated now. My oldest is a hardhead and just getting over his third go-round with the Rona. He still won't vaccinate

Hmmm, maybe it IS the herb.

[JoeOtterbein]

31. Me...

...September 2021.

[Luciferous]

32. Got it right after Thanksgiving, mild case. Husband caught it at work.

[liberaltrucker]

33. Can't honestly say I've never had it

But I've never had any symptoms.

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. I had a mild case in January of 2021.

It was like a very mild flu. This was just when the vaccines were first becoming available. I've had all five shots.

[Poiuyt]

35. Neither my wife nor I have had it

My city/county are low risk right now.

[IbogaProject]

36. Yes

More than once, I'm Vaccinated and got Booster and the recent Double booster. Just I have a kid and live in NYC so it's been hard to dodge even masking when shopping and on public transit.

[lisa58]

37. Me...

I got the Easter version 2023

[0rganism]

39. Yep been there done that

1 star. Do not recommend.

At this point, assume everyone will come in contact with the virus somehow, all you can do is prepare to encourage lower viral loads and a less worse outcome .

[cyclonefence]

40. Me--double vaxxed and triple boosted

In the hospital for five days, still not right.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

41. not me...surprisingly

I wore a mask but didn't do any of those other things... spraying packages with sanitizer, loving packages outside...that stuff people did in the beginning of the pandemic

[newdayneeded]

42. 2 October's ago.

I got sick 3 months later with a flu. it was 10x worse than covid.

[sorcrow]

43. Yes. Jan 2022.

After two shots and one booster. My wife and I were driving from Vermont to Southern Baja California via Florida. (the long way, so we could visit friends and family.)

When we got to Arizona, my wife was feeling a little rough, cold symptoms and scratchy throat, so I took us to get tested when we were at my sister's house in Tucson. I thought we especially needed to be tested because we had been traveling. She tested positive, me negative. Two days later, I tested positive. I blame Florida. Every retail establishment felt like a super spreader event.

We're in our mid sixties. Thanks to vaccines and reasonably good health, our symptoms were very, very mild.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[Igel]

44. At least once.

First time was untested but very not cool. Don't like fever spiking to 103.8 or 104.0.

Sadly, it was sniffles Friday and fever broke Sunday at 7 pm, so back to work Monday morning. (That was my illness profile in junior high and high school. Sick Friday night, better by Monday night. Sucked.)

Second time the test came back crystal clear, but fever never broke 100 F.

Two shots + 2 boosters. Figure the first bout was too close to the booster for it to have any efficacy.

[hunter]

45. Alas, me.

Masked and careful as I am, I probably picked it up at a crowded Red State California truck stop a few months ago.

First time I was sick since the pandemic began.

Have had all the vaccines, so possibly could have been worse.

[Dorian Gray]

46. I tested positive tonight

for the first time. I skated by in the past, but it got me!

[SYFROYH]

47. July 22

[lees1975]

49. Yes, in the winter of 2020

It put me in the hospital for eight days. Somehow it got into my digestive track and played havoc with my stomach and intestines. Ran a 102 fever for four days, passed out from dehydration and I really thought it was over.

[Arkansas Granny]

50. It caught up with me in August, but since I was vaxxed and boosted, I had very mild symptoms.

[LisaM]

51. Nope.

I am fully vaccinated and triple boosted and mask in elevators, on mass transit, and in the grocery store (and when I need to stand in lines). I distance and mostly work from home.

So I am pretty careful,
not to the level I was in 2020 and 2021, but I take reasonable precautions.

[woodsprite]

52. Me, fully vaxed and boosted.

Might be in the process of getting it again. Just went out to dinner, though we were pretty separated from other diners, plus son just got home from FL.

[Bluethroughu]

53. My household got it the first couple weeks in December 2022

We are all vaccinated and boosted.
We all suffered all the classic symptoms, one different each day, but it was gone in 14 days.


It was mild, we were thankful for that, unhappy to have got it at all.

[sheshe2]

54. Fully vaxed and boosted.

Wore a mask everywhere for two plus years and avoided crowds. Still wear one in stores.

I haven't had COVID or even a cold in almost 3 years...just my allergies and a crappy reaction to my last flu shot.

Stay safe everyone.

[jcgoldie]

55. 3 times

june september and november this year.

[H2O Man]

56. 1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. So far I have not had COVID

I am fully vaxxed and boosted and wear a mask most places

[Raine]

58. Maybe yes, maybe no ... I had something Spring of 2020, then something Fall 2021 but

didn't amount to much more then a cold except left me with a ringing in my ears and an itch that comes and goes. I really don't know.

[Greybnk48]

59. Jan. 2022 for 3 weeks, and Nov. 2022 for about 5 days.

Fully vaccinated for January bout. I was terrified I was going to die because I have 3 risk factors. But I came out of it ok. Bad cough, and massive fatigue. GI distress and headaches.

Round two in November '22 was a surprise because we had all gotten our Omicron boosters and flu shots in early Oct. I was positive for about 5 or 6 days and just felt punk with headaches, and my husband and grown daughter who lives with us never tested positive at all.

We were and continue to be diligent hand washers, mask wearers (in crowds and clinics), and we were still wiping incoming groceries until this Fall. We barely left the house for a year and a half, and it's been slow going trying to feel comfortable about going out to places. We ventured out to a huge arcade in our town with two of our grandkids and that's when I got the 2nd round of COVID. We dug back in like groundhogs, lol.

[IndianaDave]

61. Had it in July for about 10 days. Got it at a funeral visitation. Almost no one was masked.

Fortunately, I was fully vaccinated. Stayed at home, followed Doctor's instructions. No hospitalization. And I'm an old guy, so I'm really happy that I got through it. Just had a medical check-up last week, and I'm in excellent shape.

[ArnoldLayne]

63. Yes I had it one time August 2022.

[AngryOldDem]

64. So far, no.

Had a few scares, though.

[Delphinus]

65. My husband

and I both got Covid even though being fully vaxxed in June. We are up-to-date with our Bivalent.

[Luz]

66. Hubs and I just getting over it.

[onethatcares]

67. me

two weeks ago for the 2nd time. First time was 2021.

So far no lingering after effects.

[GoneOffShore]

68. Yes, at Thanksgiving. Full course of vaccination. If we hadn't got the jab, it would have killed us.

[Emile]

69. Nope

[womanofthehills]

70. Had it two months ago

Not vaxxed because of history of anaphylaxis. Bad muscle aches & low fever for 2 days - then better, but severe fatigue for 9 days - I only got up for 30 minutes twice a day to feed my animals and eat something. I wear my mask everywhere but ran into a basically empty store for 5 minutes when I forgot my mask in my car- unmasked cashier coughed on me.

What was so bizarre was - my pain was only on the right side of my body (zero pain on left) - from my head to the bottom of my ribs. My ribs felt broken. I’ve since read of others having only one sided pain with Covid.

[FakeNoose]

71. Maybe this would have worked better as a poll?

I had a brief, extremely mild bout of Covid after Thanksgiving, courtesy of my nephew who didn't wear a mask and didn't warn any of us. Mine only lasted 4 or 5 days with no fever, no cough or sore throat. My only symptoms were hoarseness for a few days and loss of taste and smell for about 4 days. Out of an abundance of caution, I quarantined myself for almost 2 weeks.

[themaguffin]

73. Yep, got it around Labor Day 2022.

[JanLip]

74. Fully vaxed

I had something last year that was different from anything I’ve ever had. I had chills and fever. Lasted about 1 week. Stayed in bed a couple of days. Felt like crap. Tested twice negative both times. My granddaughter had it a couple weeks before so I’m thinking it was Covid just mild. My hubby hasn’t had it thank goodness. I think he is one of the lucky ones

[Emile]

75. Our right-wing neighbors family all have it including their 17 month old

daughter.

[littlewolf]

76. Feb 2020

was off work for 9 days per their protocol
felt very weak for 7 of those ..
no taste no sense of smell very very tired
fever never broke 100 ...
lots of fluids ... walked around the house
to keep moving .. after 5 days walked 4 houses
to the mail box 2x a day ..
(pre covid I was walking between 1.5 - 2 miles per day)
after 9 days I was tested and was clean went back to
work...

[lark]

77. Me, before vaccines.

Hubs and I have kept up with all the boosters too. Hubs was exposed 2 weeks ago, but so far neither of us are sick. I have my usual runny nose and occasional cough from allergies, like always, but nothing else. I am surprised, but guess the vaccines worked!

[Dorian Gray]

78. I tested positive last night

first time.

So... ME!

[Johnny2X2X]

79. Twice

Once in the Fall of 2020, was mild, but I was tired for a few weeks and had a low grade headache for a week longer than that.

And again over Christmas 2021, fully vaxxed at the time, was awful. Was really miserable for a week, the worst sore throat I've ever experienced. Seriously, I didn't think it possible to have a sore throat as bad as that. Fever, chills, and fatigue, went away and I was back to full strength a week after that.

Both times, the first symptom I got was diarrhea the day before any other symptoms showed.

I am fully up to date on the vaccines and will get another one when it is recommended. Really think the vaccine saved me from a really severe case the 2nd time around.