Covid-19

Thanks guys. Right now, it feels like a bad flu, and luckily my wife doesn't feel as bad as I do right now, so she is able to take care of the kids for the most part.

What's weird is the testing...we have hung out with a pod since this started and there are 7 of us plus kids. We all hung out this past weekend so we are assuming all of us are positive and acting accordingly but we all have gotten tested...only 1 of us has tested positive out of the 3 of us that have gotten our results back...maybe it is too early in the process for those that tested negative

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Originally Posted by Xville

Thanks guys. Right now, it feels like a bad flu, and luckily my wife doesn't feel as bad as I do right now, so she is able to take care of the kids for the most part.

What's weird is the testing...we have hung out with a pod since this started and there are 7 of us plus kids. We all hung out this past weekend so we are assuming all of us are positive and acting accordingly but we all have gotten tested...only 1 of us has tested positive out of the 3 of us that have gotten our results back...maybe it is too early in the process for those that tested negative

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My mom tested positive a week ago with symptoms but my dad has had no symptoms and tested negative a few days ago. Maybe he still gets it, out maybe he had it earlier and didn't know it, but it also seems like it's possible my mom didn't even pass it to him.

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Originally Posted by Xville

Thanks guys. Right now, it feels like a bad flu, and luckily my wife doesn't feel as bad as I do right now, so she is able to take care of the kids for the most part.

What's weird is the testing...we have hung out with a pod since this started and there are 7 of us plus kids. We all hung out this past weekend so we are assuming all of us are positive and acting accordingly but we all have gotten tested...only 1 of us has tested positive out of the 3 of us that have gotten our results back...maybe it is too early in the process for those that tested negative

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I’ve heard multiple stories of people living together where one tested positive but somehow other people living in the house never caught it. It’s a weird virus.

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Originally Posted by XU '11

I’ve heard multiple stories of people living together where one tested positive but somehow other people living in the house never caught it. It’s a weird virus.

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I just think testing may not be very good. 3 of 6 are positive, my wife and I are negative but all of us have the same aymptoms.

Anyways merry christmas everyone, feeling better today..thank goodness for my kids sake lol.

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Originally Posted by XU '11

I’ve heard multiple stories of people living together where one tested positive but somehow other people living in the house never caught it. It’s a weird virus.

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Yes it is. Someone I work with has had it twice in his home. Back in the summer, one of his twin daughters tested positive. They quarantined her to her bedroom and had her use a separate bathroom. The rest of the family got tested and were all negative and never developed any symptoms.

He then caught COVID mid November. He woke up one morning with no sense of taste or smell and tested positive. The previous night, a number of us from work, including him, went out for drinks. There were 5 of us sitting at a small table with him. No one was wearing a mask while at the table. We all got tested and were all negative. Very weird virus.


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My son had it, and none of the rest of us caught it. Three weeks later, the other 4 of us all got it at pretty much the exact same time. My poor son was excluded when he got it originally as we quarantined him in his room, and then he was excluded the second time when we were all home with Covid and he was back in school.

Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Not sure if this has been posted in the thread yet or not but it is a meta-analysis of household transmission. It reviewed and collected data from 54 studies that looked at secondary attack rates in households, and estimated overall secondary infection rate to be 16.6%. The rates varied quite a bit as you may expect, as everything with this virus does. I think living quarters and culture play a large role in transmission. Also as noted in the study was transmission rates from children to adult and vice versa.

Interesting stuff, we assume everyone in the house is going to get it if someone is sick, and the secondary transmission rate is much much higher than similar viruses and illnesses. However 16.6% is probably lower than most people would guess.

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Originally Posted by Lloyd Braun

Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Not sure if this has been posted in the thread yet or not but it is a meta-analysis of household transmission. It reviewed and collected data from 54 studies that looked at secondary attack rates in households, and estimated overall secondary infection rate to be 16.6%. The rates varied quite a bit as you may expect, as everything with this virus does. I think living quarters and culture play a large role in transmission. Also as noted in the study was transmission rates from children to adult and vice versa.

Interesting stuff, we assume everyone in the house is going to get it if someone is sick, and the secondary transmission rate is much much higher than similar viruses and illnesses. However 16.6% is probably lower than most people would guess.

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None of that makes any sense. Either the testing is crap, or this is not as contagious a virus as we have been led to believe.

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Originally Posted by Xville

I just think testing may not be very good. 3 of 6 are positive, my wife and I are negative but all of us have the same aymptoms.

Anyways merry christmas everyone, feeling better today..thank goodness for my kids sake lol.

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On 12/20/19 we drove 9 hours to Florida with a family friend who coughed for 9 straight hours. She had just returned from working in NYC. One year ago today, on Christmas, my wife had to drive the whole way back because I was sick as a dog (in the backseat), coughing so hard I felt like my torso had been beaten with a bat.

I thought it was too early to be the nasty Covid, but my wife’s doctor swears it was here as early as late November last year. It sure looked like a duck, sounded like a duck and walked like a duck! I coughed into February! My wife got it from me, but not nearly as bad. Someone mentioned blood type A gets it the worst, and O is often more mild. Don’t know if there’s anything to that, but I’m A+ and she’s O-.

Odd part was I developed this rash that moved around. I was too sick to care about the rash. When I started feeling better I googled it and found a rash was present in roughly 20% of cases.

Weird virus indeed!

Interested to hear if anyone here has been vaxxed yet and what the experience is like? My wife get hers tomorrow.