Well I went and did it now I got Covid !
Saturday I felt like a cold coming on.
By Sunday I was stuffed up and a little bit sore.
Monday felt worse so I took a home test and it came out positive.
My wife has a cold but her test have all come back negative as she must test daily for her job.
I also found out my oldest stepson has covid .
I just pray the baby's or Kelley don't get it as Kelley is 3 or 4 months pregnant.

FWIW several people have reported cold like symptoms. Glad to hear that yours sound similar. My wife and I, and our daughter and grandson, just got over covid. Our symptoms were much more severe flu like symptoms. Fever, chills, aches, cough, headache, on and on for 2-3 days.

Were you guys vaccinated?

Sorry to hear. Get well soon.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Yes both my wife and I got three doses of the Phizer vaccine .

Babies don't get it.
Young people in general don't get it.

With the exception of my daughter in law, a lot of vaccinated people DO get it. That includes a couple of friends in their mid 70s. They describe it as a "bad cold" that lasts about three days.

You'll be fine.

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Can open, worms everywhere.

Sorry to hear that Bob, but wish you well.

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Sure you did

Anybody can get it. Different demographics get it at different rates, and severity can fluctuate depending on vaccination status. My wife works in a high volume Labor an Delivery unit and has to deal with positive newborns frequently. Nobody knows if it's passed from the mother before birth or if they pick it up after. Deaths are rare though. Usually only when there's a lot of associated problems.

It was a year ago yesterday when the wife and I both tested positive for "original" COVID. Later that evening she collapsed and went via ambulance to the hospital where she stayed 12 days. (She is a kidney transplant recipient on anti-rejection drugs.)

I gutted it out at home while keeping in check with my PCP and monitoring my O2. Both of us recovered, but it was not a fun experience.

Fortunately most folks now are getting Omicron, with less severe symptoms. Both my daughter and one of my grandsons recovered in just a few days with very mild symptoms.

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Only a cold warrior

Bob, I hope that you and your stepson recover quickly.

At this point, I think the most likely scenario is that we are all gonna get it sooner or later. In our family, we've prepared as best we could, will continue to exercise caution, and when we get it we hope to be either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms.

Good luck to all.

The reason I ask was that our daughter and 2 year old grand
son both tested positive a couple weeks ago. Daughter is a
music teacher and she had to stay home 10 days. Both had
mild symptoms with the little guy affected the least.

Praying for you and your family's rapid and full recovery.



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Slava Ukraini!

Mrs QD67 and I had "covid classic".

Not a fun time at all.

The only "good" thing is that the symptoms seem to be less severe.

Prayers, God bless, hope that it passes soon.

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BTDT, Got The T-Shirt

That may have been true with the initial bug and Delta, but Omicron is going through the school district here like wildfire, kids and staff alike.

Fortunately, the symptoms are usually limited to a bad cold, like most breakthrough cases, but the key word here is usually. My doctor's nurse was in hospital for two weeks, and we lost a dear former coworker who was fully vaxed in late Novemeber.

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Release the Kraken

As a general rule, the vaccinated don't get near as sick. I am high risk, so was vaxxed as soon as the State said I qualified. In addition, there is at least some evidence that the breakthrough cases (the vaxxed who get it) end up with a very high level of protection against future covid infections.

Of course, since humans as not lab rats, there can be a lot of variation in outcomes/responses.

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NHI, 10-8.

I had da 'Rona (after I was vaccinated in feb/March)back in August. Was like a bad cold. Got the infusion. Fever done in three days, taste and smell took a week to return. Was fatigued for about three weeks. Am absolutely convinced that the vaccination kept it down to a tolerable level. Wife did not catch it. If this counts as my brush with the devil, I WILL TAKE IT
This fat boy ain't gonna tolerate ANYONE telling me I MUST get a vaccination, but for me it made sense and I'll take anything out there! So far, I've had a total of three vaccinations/boosters, an infusion, a flu shot and the two shingles shots. Hell, they're free (I consider anything that I don't pay for right there as "free" although I realize that I'm still paying for it ).
Bottom line is it is your choice and you need to do what is right for you after doing all your due dilligence. Pretty simple really.
LVSteve I hope you get over this soon.
On the bright side da 'Rona is a great excuse to get out of going places you don't want to go or being around people you don't want to be around

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Forum consigliere

We’re all going to get it, even the “scientists and experts” have said it.

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Sure you did

This is incorrect medical info.

As a self-identified first responder, it’s surprising.

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You're better off with getting it and then having a natural immunity level of protection since the shots are anything but a "vaccination". I had the original strain in December of 2019 and was sick for about two weeks.

Then it was right before the entire closedown. Haven't been sick since and have been around many who have come down with it and they were all jabbed.

I'm afraid you're right. I'm in the testing protocol now, stuck at home instead of running my business like I should be. 30% of my employees are out right now.

Edit: I tested positive today. I hate it and wish this whole thing would just go away and we could somehow get our normal lives back.

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Mark

Statistically, it's quite correct. Not just locally or nationally, world wide. Omicron is more infectious overall, but far less dangerous to everyone EXCEPT some elderly with multiple co morbidities.

Right now hospitals are flooded with people who think they have COVID, but don't. This, despite advice from hospitals NOT to go to Emergency Departments if you suspect you have COVID and have minor symptoms.

Believe what you want, since most people do, but the numbers support my position.

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Can open, worms everywhere.

I don’t want to be right. I hope you weather this situation.

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Sure you did

Bob, hope that you shake this bug quickly.

Just over 2 weeks ago, my son was sick. As a precaution, we all got tested. My son was symptomatic and tested positive, my daughter, ex and I were asymptomatic, but only my daughter tested negative. My daughter ended up testing positive about 4 days later.

Doctors were taking different approaches. The kids were prescribed a pseudoephedrine type cough syrup and tylenol, my ex was not prescribed a thing and took OTC meds. My doc prescribed a Z pack and prednisone. Kids are back to school with just the occasional cough. Ex is back to work but with loss of taste. I have a slight cough, but tire easily.

We have chosen to not get vaxxed at this point in time.

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Judge control not gun control!

Now you’re changing the argument to ‘less dangerous.”

Much more tenable position than your previous post.

I don’t have to read about what’s going on, I set foot in the ED of the local hospital at least 20 days a month. I see the folks ‘boarding’ in the hallways due to 120% occupancy rate.

80%+ of the current tenants there for Covid are not vaccinated per their attestation.

“You’ll be fine” is good odds but horrible advice.

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I talk with both ED physicians and EMS providers on a regular (weekly) basis. All of them tell me that actual COVID cases are declining. The hospitals are refining their admission reports to break down visits and admissions to classify patients "with" COVID and those who "have" COVID. A lot of patients are testing positive, but asymptomatic.

My son (vaccinated) and daughter in law (not) both got COVID. Neither was very ill. Neither of my grandkids got ill at all, but I expect that if they were tested, they'd be positive.

The vaccines are underperforming in large part because the spike that the mRNA vaccine was developed to support is not prevalent in Omicron and the new spike is immune to the vaccine.

Israel is the most highly vaccinated country on the planet, yet is also has the highest infection rate in the world. No one knows what they are going to do because their experts are baffled by the way the virus acts.

England, Ireland, and the Czech Republic have lifted all of their restrictions and mandates because their messages have proven ineffective and the vast majority of those infected have minor illnesses.

Over the past two years NOTHING that we have been told would control this virus has worked. Not the "two weeks to flatten the curve", not the "30 days to stop the spread", not the mask mandates, not social distancing, and after a brief success not the vaccines.

If this virus continues to mutate as viruses have in the past, it will continue to spread easily, but be less dangerous with each mutation.

Your note about 80% of the tenants is inaccurate on it's face. First, no one in any hospital I've ever been in refers to patients as "tenants." Second, there are a lot of elderly people who can not get vaccinated because of their underlying medical issues.

My mother in law contracted COVID at 102. After a week, she finally went to the hospital where she was admitted to a regular ward bed, not a unit. She survived COVID, but died from a bacterial pneumonia.

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Can open, worms everywhere.

Hopefully the pneumonia wasn't brought on by being sick with COVID?

I got over the original variant just over a year ago. I also got the vaxx in early July & August.
Not going to bother with a booster since the vaxx seems to be ineffective against Omicron anyway.

Hope you come through it with flying colors sureshotbob.

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Send lawyers, guns & money...

Good luck Bob. Went thru the same thing a year ago last Dec. No vaccine yet at the time, but got the infusion therapy.

R/E the lack of bed space in hospitals due to Covid. I have to believe the numbers hospitalized with Covid are off, probably because of the number of people who are hospitalized for something else, but found positive when tested upon admission.

I firmly believe the lack of beds is mostly because of the lack of nurses / health care professionals. About a month ago, I was in the hospital for surgery on my left leg, and stayed a week. Different nurse almost every day, and when I talked to them, I found that almost all were "traveling, or temporary contract employees. As I recovered, I was encouraged to walk, so I did, and noticed that my floor, and the ward upstairs was almost empty of patients, and staff for that matter.

Larry

I got my double shots & then the booster. Somewhere in between I got my annual flu shot. Starting on Jan. 1st, I came down with a cold, lots of coughing, runny nose, etc. I couldn't find a test site anywhere in Pgh and if I had to make an appt. I said forget it, I'll be better by then. No fever, just cold symptoms. I still don't know if I had it or not. Wife is a non-vaxer, & she's fine. My 44 year old nephew died of it in the hospital; another non-vaxer. To each their own.

Santa brought us all a case of cooties over Christmas. Vaccinated or not, everyone got it. The vaccinated among us had a little less severe symptoms, but no one had a serious case.

For me it felt like a mild cold (J&J vaccine). The worst part was isolating, so I couldn't use the gym. We had a few warm days where I was able to go out and run intervals. Even got my bike out once.

Hoping you have a quick recovery with no lingering effects!

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Common sense isn't so common.

I had the Covid version 1.0 prior to any vaccine options. Almost all of the reported effects got me. Took me out for 2-3 weeks plus lingering effects. Two to three "down" days with this latest version is a piece of cake in comparison--unless you're one of the unfortunates who react badly. The overwhelming fatigue and brain fog were the worse for me. The lungs--other than a persistent hacking--were never serious affected.

Me and my wife yes (no booster). No for 18 month old grandson.

Well it just keeps getting worse my daughter in law Kelley has now tested positive.
My wife that gets tested twice a day at work with a instant home type test was sent home till she gets the results back in a day or so from a more acuate test.
I'm still waiting to hear how the grandbabys are doing .

At the end of boot camp, my squad all got injected with 6 different vaccines to prepare us for overseas assignments, being told it was to protect us and our fellow airmen. That still applies. The vaccine greatly diminishes the impact of Covid if exposed, and good masks properly used greatly diminish the chances of being exposed to covid.
I have lost two friends, one a fishing partner, and have a brother-in-law now a long hauler, home bound for several months, unable to shake it. All three refused to be vaccinated and disdained the use of masks. My BIL was hospitalized for three weeks, his hospital bill is 6 figures.
Covid will not go away soon, it will continue to do laps around the world, mutating as it goes, returning periodically as a new variant.
It is our first global viral conflict, no different than a ground war, and we only have two weapons at our disposal, vaccines and masks. Do not be unarmed.

Eventually we will stop feeling the need to announce that we have China Virus. Just like the flu.

Hopefully that day comes soon so we can get back to normal fully.

I’ve heard some people say “if they refuse the vaccine, don’t give them medical care”. Really?

So if you smoke and get lung cancer….if you have a horrible diet and are overweight and develop all the associated issues….if you lay in the sun all day and get melanoma…… WHAT then?

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Sure you did

Those are all scenarios that are already happening to some extent. Off the top of my head I can think of transplant eligibility being dependant on some lifestyle choices (not going to get a liver if you're still living a life that abuses it), governments of all levels imposing taxes on sugary drinks, booze, and cigs to discourage the behavior and offset the damage they do to general health of the public, and private companies tacking on insurance costs to smokers for the extra costs they generate. This happens even more regularly in areas that have universal healthcare.

I've not seen any actual cases of "no vaccine, no treatment", but I'm sure we've had that taken into account during triage, and if we're short of healthcare resources it makes some sense to prioritize those that took their healthcare (and the health of others) seriously and have the best change for a positive outcome. Ideally we'd have enough resources that everyone gets treated, but that's not always the case these days.

Hey Bob, Jimmy and his bunch got it recently, they all came though OK...I'm confident (and hopeful) that all of you will have the same outcome.

never going to happen, everyone deserves treatment regardless.
What is likely, however, are employers and insurance companies changing their insured rates for the non-vaccinated, as those who do end up in the hospital generate bills up to 400K.
Which for many, even with insurance, means staggering hospital bills.

Average charge for COVID-19 hospitalization, by state

It's not easy when your family is in danger, but hold onto hope. The odds are still in their favor.



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Slava Ukraini!

There's really no way to know. No sense in doing an autopsy on a woman of 102.

The Death Certificate listed two causes of death. The first was respiratory failure from pneumonia.

The second was COVID. Neither her Primary Doctor, nor the doctor in the hospital who treated her the last week said it was COVID related. The doctor who signed the death certificate did, but they are doing that for a lot of people. FEMA has burial expense money available IF the death certificate includes COVID as one of the causes of death.

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Can open, worms everywhere.

There are people who say just that for people with "unhealthy life styles." It's wrong of course, but sometimes people say really dumb things.

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Can open, worms everywhere.

Grandaughter has a positive test. She could run a marathon but can't taste her food. We are isolating.

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You and your family are in my prayers.

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Mighty 90's,Trying 4 a 100!

I had the original rona for Christmas of 2020. Symptoms like a severe flu, but no loss of taste or smell. Got the shots later. A couple weeks ago I was suffering from sniffles and a sore throat that I attributed to allergies. A local doc was on the news that night saying if you think you have allergies you probably have omicron because it's everywhere. So the next day I got tested. Negative - hmm, it was allergies.

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Or something like that . . .

[QUOTE=LCC;141372558]never going to happen, everyone deserves treatment regardless.
What is likely, however, are employers and insurance companies changing their insured rates for the non-vaccinated, as those who do end up in the hospital generate bills up to 400K.
Which for many, even with insurance, means staggering hospital bills.

[url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/average-charge-for-covid-19-hospitalization-by-state.html]Average charge for COVID-19 hospitalization, by state[

People are denied health care all the time in this country. If you
do not have insurance, or ability to pay up front, don't expect
a heart bypass.
Saw just this morning where some hospital back East would
not operate on a potential transplant person because they
refused to take the covid vaccine, so it is happening.

I, too, saw that story and sadly there have been other stories just like his. There are news stories of Make A Wish kids being denied because of their vaccine status.

Jab/ no jab should be a personal choice. Whatever soapbox someone chooses stop preaching from it.

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I've had the booster. Now I just wish I'd catch it and get it over with, 2 years covid life is enough. People made their bets (vaccine or no vaccine), we're all going to catch it eventually, so I see no sense in hiding from it. Catch it and whatever happens, happens. Enough is enough.

Obviously they do.

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You know what's frustrating? Ready to walk out the door for the 20 mile drive to the hospital for hernia surgery caused by my accident in October and getting a call from the hospital, we have to cancel your surgery because the hospital loaded up with covid cases!

Best wishes for fast recoveries.