Hey I'm curious, if you don't mind sharing, how do you think you got it? Throughout this whole pandemic, I'm still kind of amazed how people are getting it
They then went on to unwittingly spread the infection at a small gathering of friends, even though their rapid tests were negative. A subsequent rapid test showed negative for one, positive for the other. PCR tests nailed it down, and they went through the whole contact tracing malarkey to get everyone tested.
It may be as simple as someone not taking it completely seriously, or someone 100% unwittingly becoming a carrier, even with negative tests.
We had a late night call saying he was unlikely to last the night, so we were allowed in to see him.
The next morning we were waiting for the phone call. And we had one. From Test and Fucking Trace, who wanted to speak to him. They were insistent he wasn't in hospital so we hung up on them with a rather non-polite scream.
His swab (which was from before we saw him) came back and he was positive, so we had to isolate. He did last the night, and then was moved to a covid ward.
So he clearly caught it in hospital on a non-covid ward. While I was holding his hand a nurse came along to give him an injection. She had a mask on, over her mouth - not her nose. Clearly lots of unconcious people who had frequent negative tests and weren't moving around a ward aren't going to be spreading covid, the only close contacts were the medical staff.
As it happens he lasted another 3 weeks before he came home for palative care. The vaccine presumably helped with fighting covid, but the damage caused by the siezures meant he couldn't even swallow.
He died 29 days after the positive test, so didn't go on the T+28 day stats.
Got it at Christmas from a gathering with only 3 other family members.
Non-huge indoor spaces, absence of masks, breathing the same air for longer than 15-20 min all increase infection rates.
Not OP.
He wouldn't wear a mask in the house (because "I'm fine") and kept coughing up the place, though.
I wear an N95 or KF94 - I like the ones with the valve / vents so do a surgical over that if I use one of those.
I've got friends in covid care who had pretty high exposure with a good N95 and face shield without being infected.
So when people say they were masked up and got infected, you need to ask, was this just some fleece cloth or a mask designed for infection control.
Even these slow down transmission so it’s a function of having a mask, time spent together, flow/amount of air, proximity.
- Me: no idea, we were careful :(
- Friend 1: had son in school, son's classmate's father got it and by the time they knew, the kids had met. This was during a wave and contacts weren't tested, only symptomatic people.
- Friend 2: stupid, stupid colleague came to work to pick up laptop when she got quarantined.
He was admitted with suspected sepsis, and tested negative on admission. He had a new cough when he was discharged, but we didn't think much of it as he had COPD so periods of coughing weren't unusual. A few days later, he was readmitted with a recurrence of his original symptoms, but this time his admission test was positive. Six of the other family members tested positive the next day, and developed symptoms over the following days.
[1] The only other person in the house who hadn't been isolating subsequently tested negative. Everyone else had been nowhere but home for at least the proceeding two weeks, so the chance of another vector seems remote.
What was her name? ;-)
I'm not sure how I caught it. I had left my car into the garage a few days before I showed symptoms and had to get an Uber home, then back to the garage to pick it up, so my strongest suspicion is one of the Uber drivers or previous passengers had it or potentially a mechanic had it and it remained in the car.
The strangest thing is my girlfriend and I had spent the day before I showed symptoms together and she slept over that night but she didn't seem to catch it off me. She even had an antibody test about a month after which was negative suggesting she hadn't already had asymptomatic Covid.
a) Just go to the store and back wearing a mask while indoors b) Spend most of their leisure time outdoors - because what else can you do?
I haven't been holed up this whole time. I'm outside multiple times every day (dog walks, kids playground etc.) and I don't know anyone who works in a factory, meat processing plant, hospital etc. hence my curiosity how people think they're getting it.