Crazy and sucks that you might have it currently. I just gave blood yesterday and the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center is doing anti-body tests with all donations. I'll know on Monday or Tuesday. I'm 90% sure I had it in early Feb. Had a fever, bad cough/chest congestion, tired, etc....tested negative for flu and strep. Was chalked up to false negative on the flu test. I recovered fairly quickly...within a few days...but I could definitely feel the lingering effects in my lungs for quite a while after.
as i understand it, the presence of antibodies means you don't have it currently. that does not mean you can't have lingering or recurring symptoms. my wife still gets odd chills, and has had some weird dizzy spells, and her sense of smell has not fully returned. she has been out of the infectious zone for ~ six weeks.
Went to a popular state park in my, which happens to be one of the most educated in the country, nobody was wearing masks or taking precautions.
I know of three people that died. I also have a colleague that had it in March and retested positive a week ago after going to a party non-masked - multiple people there apparently got it. He says not as bad this time around though. I do not want it and we take it very seriously.
Antibodies are negative in my household. We are in a research trial and will be tested multiple times over the year. I wish we were positive, to be honest. I guess the PPE works.
ten months after my first infection, i have it again. i'm on day five or day seven, and thus far no obvious symptoms. maybe we should bottle my blood. got tested as a precaution after traveling due to a non-covid death in the family.
Are you eligible for the vaccine yet? Anecdotal but my friend who had COVID last year was anti body positive, 6 months later negative. He had his first Covid vaccine dose and his antibodies are 15x what they were post infection.
My neighbor had Covid. Hospitalized, recovered and then dropped dead of a blood clot a week later. I found him in his driveway. His wife and kid drove up minutes later. More awful than it sounds if thats possible.
not quite old enough where i live (PA), and i have no other qualifying contingencies, so i'm at the end of the line. I know a lot of people who have been vaccinated now in other states, but PA seems to be particularly incompetent. a friend who is in his '80s had to go to delaware to get his jab on.
no *obvious* symptoms. In June i had severe conjunctivitis, and some GI distress. the latter may or may not have been related. now i have very dry, but not red, eyes. and a bit of the GI stuff. I take meclazine when I fly, which can cause some of this, so may not be related. A week ago, I had a single afternoon with the chills, which haven't recurred. at the time i had no known exposure, and i attributed it to travel, meds, and general fatigue associated with the death in the family, which was quite sudden and unexpected.
My entire family had it. Wife and son had it for a few weeks. I wound up in the hospital for 8 days on oxygen and receiving Remdisivr, Prior to the hospital stay, I was in a free standing ER on a stretcher for 28 hours until a bed in the hospital opened up.
Damn very sorry to hear that and a reminder that even getting infected doesn't necessarily confer long term immunity.
