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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

Ha PP. In my circles of pretty COVID cautious people, many people are getting "colds" that are, in fact, COVID as confirmed by testing. This is in contrast to the fall when everyone seemed to have a cold and no one was testing positive for COVID. I guess it speaks to the higher transmissibility of this variant.

But if the variant is indistinguishable from a cold, what is the issue? Why are we still so concerned about this? We have vaccines that still are doing very well against severe outcomes. I get that there are people that have chosen to be unvaccinated, so there are a bunch of them at times overtaking hospitals. But in areas where hospital capacity is not being overwhelmed, what's the deal with a large number of people getting even a week-long cold?

Do we really have to get into this again? It's not mild for those who are unlucky not to have good immune response, or who have high risk conditions, and the vaccines don't cover these new variants very well.

Ok but isn’t that the same as for any other illness?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

Ha PP. In my circles of pretty COVID cautious people, many people are getting "colds" that are, in fact, COVID as confirmed by testing. This is in contrast to the fall when everyone seemed to have a cold and no one was testing positive for COVID. I guess it speaks to the higher transmissibility of this variant.

But if the variant is indistinguishable from a cold, what is the issue? Why are we still so concerned about this? We have vaccines that still are doing very well against severe outcomes. I get that there are people that have chosen to be unvaccinated, so there are a bunch of them at times overtaking hospitals. But in areas where hospital capacity is not being overwhelmed, what's the deal with a large number of people getting even a week-long cold?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

Ha PP. In my circles of pretty COVID cautious people, many people are getting "colds" that are, in fact, COVID as confirmed by testing. This is in contrast to the fall when everyone seemed to have a cold and no one was testing positive for COVID. I guess it speaks to the higher transmissibility of this variant.

But if the variant is indistinguishable from a cold, what is the issue? Why are we still so concerned about this? We have vaccines that still are doing very well against severe outcomes. I get that there are people that have chosen to be unvaccinated, so there are a bunch of them at times overtaking hospitals. But in areas where hospital capacity is not being overwhelmed, what's the deal with a large number of people getting even a week-long cold?

Do we really have to get into this again? It's not mild for those who are unlucky not to have good immune response, or who have high risk conditions, and the vaccines don't cover these new variants very well.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

Ha PP. In my circles of pretty COVID cautious people, many people are getting "colds" that are, in fact, COVID as confirmed by testing. This is in contrast to the fall when everyone seemed to have a cold and no one was testing positive for COVID. I guess it speaks to the higher transmissibility of this variant.

But if the variant is indistinguishable from a cold, what is the issue? Why are we still so concerned about this? We have vaccines that still are doing very well against severe outcomes. I get that there are people that have chosen to be unvaccinated, so there are a bunch of them at times overtaking hospitals. But in areas where hospital capacity is not being overwhelmed, what's the deal with a large number of people getting even a week-long cold?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

Ha PP. In my circles of pretty COVID cautious people, many people are getting "colds" that are, in fact, COVID as confirmed by testing. This is in contrast to the fall when everyone seemed to have a cold and no one was testing positive for COVID. I guess it speaks to the higher transmissibility of this variant.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

Pcrs were positive.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

So “home tests are negative”, in which case they likely have something else.
Not every cold is covid, there are still other things you can and will get sick with. Our immune systems had a break for the last 2 years and now we’re all getting sick again. That isn’t a big deal for most.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

For my dh and dc1, it started with chills. Dc2 started with a sore throat. They had fevers within 12-24 hours from first symptoms.

Do you know how high the fevers were? I tend to run cool like 97.4 so I am hot but I'm only at 98.8.

Dh was around 100.8, dc1 was 101.5-102.2 and dc2 was 100.5-101.5. Their fevers broke a couple of times and came back and broke again. After 48 hours, they had normal temps. They were all extremely tired during the fever stage and couldn't get out of bed/off the couch. This is exactly one week since dh's first symptom and I woke up with a sore throat. Home tests are negative.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

FWIW, I know two people who tested positive this weekend. Symptoms are fever, body aches & chills— no coughing or runny noses as of yet. Both people are young guys (mid 30s) and said they feel like total crap— they don’t remember when they last felt this bad. It didn’t seem like a “cold” for either of them.

“Worst they ever felt” sounds like every cold my DH has ever had.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing a lot of COVID positives at work and in my social circle just from late last week/this weekend. I hadn’t heard of anyone with COVID since January, and now I know about 3-4 people with it.

Any info on initial symptoms? I have felt like I had sinus infection over weekend and hot today but no fever. Home test negative.

FWIW, I know two people who tested positive this weekend. Symptoms are fever, body aches & chills— no coughing or runny noses as of yet. Both people are young guys (mid 30s) and said they feel like total crap— they don’t remember when they last felt this bad. It didn’t seem like a “cold” for either of them.