Chinese Flu, Beer Flu, Covid Striking Close to Home

Has anyone close to your family tested positive?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • No

    Votes: 36 72.0%
  • I wish

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Total voters
    50

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Y'all stay diligent with you and your's safety.
My wife's aunt passed from it a couple months ago in SC. She wasn't near any of us for over a year.
Yesterday we learned her step mom, 78 years old, just received a positive test. She was in our home for a gathering 18 days ago.
Then my SIL's father, she just found from a DNA company and never met, passed yesterday from it.
Stay safe and don't buy "made in China", "made in ROC" and urge your representative to have Rx drugs made here, or at least by allies. Communists are evil.
 
Remember there are TWO types of C-19 tests ... one for antibodies (a blood draw) which if you were exposed but your immune system fought it off ... the other is for the C-19 infection (a swab test)which is you actively are a carrier. The problem is a positive on either is reported to the Health Department and many are lumping them both into the same “tested positive” numbers even though you can test negative on the swab infection test and positive on the blood draw antibodies test if done a the same time.

I know 3 people who tested positive for the antibodies (they all had mild flu symptoms mid February) on the LabCorp blood test but never showed any symptoms (no fever, cough, etc) once the C-19 panic went full on. They actually didn’t go to LabCorp until mid May for the antibodies test and then it was just for curiosity.
 
Remember there are TWO types of C-19 tests ... one for antibodies (a blood draw) which if you were exposed but your immune system fought it off ... the other is for the C-19 infection (a swab test)which is you actively are a carrier. The problem is a positive on either is reported to the Health Department and many are lumping them both into the same “tested positive” numbers even though you can test negative on the swab infection test and positive on the blood draw antibodies test if done a the same time.

I know 3 people who tested positive for the antibodies (they all had mild flu symptoms mid February) on the LabCorp blood test but never showed any symptoms (no fever, cough, etc) once the C-19 panic went full on. They actually didn’t go to LabCorp until mid May for the antibodies test and then it was just for curiosity.
Good point, she’s been coughing for a week, sometimes it’s bloody. Currently she feels mildly sick with an irritating throat/chest tickle. Hopefully that’s as bad as it gets.
 
Good point, she’s been coughing for a week, sometimes it’s bloody. Currently she feels mildly sick with an irritating throat/chest tickle. Hopefully that’s as bad as it gets.
She’s 78 years old with the above symptoms ... what is her doctor doing for her? She should be closely monitored at 78!

As to the time frame of symptoms and her time of visit ... you should be monitoring every person in your home for elevating temperature, body aches, etc ... but unless you have someone who is a higher risk I’d say just kinda keep to yourselves for another week or so to make sure you guys are past the incubation period.
 
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Nephew in NYC and his wife and inlaws all tested positive back in March. All had high fever and severe flu symptoms, some lasting several weeks. All came through it ok. Im sorry for your loss.
 
No one in our family has, but one of my employees had it right in the beginning. Another one of my employee's had her best friend's mother pass of of COVID. Both of those live in NJ.

I work in HR, we have just under 1,000 employees across the country, and have had 33 employees test positive and take time for COVID.
 
Good point, she’s been coughing for a week, sometimes it’s bloody. Currently she feels mildly sick with an irritating throat/chest tickle. Hopefully that’s as bad as it gets.

person with those symptoms tested positive?

My family had cold last week. Tested negative. But with a daughter back in daycare, sickness is the norm
 
She’s 78 years old with the above symptoms ... what is her doctor doing for her? She should be closely monitored at 78!

As to the time frame of symptoms and her time of visit ... you should be monitoring every person in your home for elevating temperature, body aches, etc ... but unless you have someone who is a higher risk I’d say just kinda keep to yourselves for another week or so to make sure you guys are past the incubation period.
She got sent home, she's alone
 
I'm very grateful that my surviving grandparents live in the middle of nowhere and require minimal contact with the outside world. The rest of my family is relatively young and healthy, so hopefully we'll pull through this without a scratch.
 
Two people my wife works with tested positive. One a younger guy that didn’t seem phased and the second one a middle aged woman who said it was a little worse than the flu. Other than that I don’t know anyone that has had it. When the first guy tested positive my wife got tested with my stepson and they came back negative. My job required me to test and made me stay out of work for three days.
 
Former coworker had it, young, healthy dude, felt like crap for two weeks, sense of smell is still gone about 3 weeks afterwards.
 
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