Anyone diagnosed with Covid?

[2LZ]

I know it's blasphemy these days to compare Covid to the flu or common cold, but crabjoe, we used to get illnesses (pre-covid) getting passed around our "Sea of Cubicles" at work in the same way.
I'd hear someone come in with a cough, then three days later, half the room would have it, but some with many different symptoms. Bottom line, you get 60 people all sharing the same five door knobs/handles all day, it's disaster in the making.

[wheelbender6]

My wife'a cousin came down with an unusual case. After experiencing fever and difficulty breathing, she went to the doctor and tested negative for covid. However, after viewing her chest xray, the doc diagnosed her with Covid Pneumonia.
-The doc said her lungs were covered with these specks, that you do not see with the usual bacterial pneumonia. The specs are consistent with pneumonia caused by covid.
-She is riding it out at home with a medrose pack and some other prescrips.
-My wife has been exposed through contact with her relatives, so she will not be seeing her grandson for a couple of weeks while she quarantines.

[2LZ]

Get this....

I woke up a week ago Monday with a screaming sore throat. Stayed home for a few days, the symptoms grew to my nose and lungs, but weren't too bad. No real snot factory, just raw and tight. Low grade fever on and off but nothing bad. Stayed on the Emergen-C and vitamins, rested a lot. Started feeling much better.

I saw a buddy a couple days later, who I see all the time. He tells me he's had a bad cold. I promptly blame him for my cold as he got his three days before mine showed up.

He is currently hospitalized fighting Covid. My test came up negative. Go figure.

[cheesy]

Bosses wife come down with it Tuesday. Boss is being tested today.

[duck9191]

MIL was admitted to the hospital for it yesterday. She's had it for 12 days so far. Wife is getting tested right now, half the hospital staff has it so she likely does too. The er staff was already a skeleton crew because of it and now she will likely be forced to take a 14 day non paid vacation if she test positive or not. Hopefully it just a sinuse infection.

Hospital is refusing to file workers comp claims for them, claiming they can't prove the employee got it from working in the hospital. Right, because be surrounded by and treating dozen or people with it doesn't increase your risk at all. What a shit hole.

[wheelbender6]

My nephew and his wife in Georgia both have it. Sweating it out at home.

[Sport Rider]

it's gone through my family over the past 3 weeks. none of us really had anything more than flu symptoms.

[duck9191]

Forgot to update. Wife tested positive after 3 test. She is just now starting to feel better but is still exhausted. MIL got out of the hospital last week. She's still not doing great but isn't oxygen dependent anymore. I still feel fine, assuming I had it last month.

[2LZ]

Originally Posted by duck9191

Wife tested positive after 3 test.

So the first two were negative???
It's too bizarre to me that my buddy got it and was hospitalized (he's not in the best of health), but I tested negative, even though we were sick at the same time, with the same symptoms.

[duck9191]

Yes, the test are not accurate, especially rapid test. That and you have issues with the swabs not being done correctly.

[Wild Dog]

swab test are crappy at BEST, it just doesn't matter if you are in the first, second, third, fourth or in mars....

[Magician16]

My wife has had it for a week, even though her test came back inconclusive. She started with chills, followed by low grade fever, and is extremely weak and sleeps all the time. A good friend with exact same symptoms was positive is in the hospital. We have been quarantining for a week already. I have had no symptoms.

[Joe Cheap]

No one in my family or immediate circle. No one at work. Did have a friend in Georgia who came down with it. She's fine now.

[culcune]

I started getting congested on Christmas night, and definitely nasally on Saturday morning, as well as cough. Cold? Flu? COVID? I have not tested yet as I am trying to get hold of the OHN nurse at work for guidance. I still feel sick (very much like the flu or a bad cold that turned into a sinus infection like I used to get years ago) but nothing that would make me think I need to call 911 (at least not yet). I got the flu shot a few months ago, which have worked for the past 8 or 9 years, so am guessing it is 'the Virus'. A few people in my office had tested positive a few weeks ago, so I guess it was my turn.

[Gimpster]

A good friend of mine, her 78 year old father contracted it and passed away about three weeks ago. I am in Florida, and he continued to eat out etc.

To be honest, even though 78, he had been quite healthy.

He basically ended up on a ventilator after not being able to breath anymore and slipped away.

Otherwise, I have not personally or known anyone else to be affected so far.