Vaccinated, no booster, caught it and gave it to my friends who were vaccinated + boosted. All 4 of us were sick for a week and a half and tested positive.
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#12There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.
I only had it once. Have been out and about since the beginning of the year.
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#13I don’t know. I got Pfizer four times but never been tested. But I also haven’t been sick.
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#14Unvaccinated, never had any symptoms (actually, haven't been sick at all since covid, really strange), was working in public with lots of contact for the entire period before the vaccines were released. I never got tested for antibodies.
Similar for me (except I had vaccines for covid and flu). Even have been in prolonged contact (in one household) with people that had covid.
I used to be sick with flu almost every year before (but I did not had vaccine against flu before).
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#15I have, to my knowledge, never had it. Nor has anyone in my family. I reached out to the team studying superdodgers [1], but never heard back.
It'd be useful if getting the kind of blood test that tells you if you EVER had COVID19 was not pay-out-of-pocket.
Fully vaccinated. If I had to self-rate my own mask habits, I'd give myself a B-.
[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/07/1121599...
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#16Is there any way to tell, after having had a vaccination?
I got unusually sick in February of 2020; felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Went to the hospital, and there were so many people there with the same symptoms we were a line past the ER and down the hallway. No one was thinking covid at the time. I remember the nurse checking me in asking if I'd had the flu shot (I had), then shrugging and guessing it must not be that effective that year. Was sent home after receiving fluids.
That being said, I never lost my sense of smell, nor did I have the brain fog, covid toes, any of the other supposed tells. Did take a solid month to feel fully human again in terms of energy levels, though.
Haven't been sick since, that I am aware of.
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#17My family and I have been supremely careful Mar 2020. I read a lot of the research and preprints and am concerned about long term system impacts of repeat infections. Despite huge numbers of precautions, we all finally caught it about ten days ago. Still positive, still coughing, still tired.
We can lower risk, but it seems that no level of caution is truly enough, given that others don't care. I'm really not sure what to do – we don't want to keep getting it, but we really want some sense of social life back. My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously. I suspect it will come down to small communities, rather than states or countries.
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#18Have school-aged children, so have had COVID. It was, however, after my third vaccine dose (two + first booster). So symptoms were less bad than flu, but slightly worse than the common cold.
I know people who haven't had it, but they also don't have children.
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#19There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.
On day 6 of my first time.
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#20There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.
Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.
Plenty of people who got the covid were taking similar precautions. It's pretty infectious!