Learned of 3 yesterday. One family friend, seems to be fairly decent but is going into the 14 day quarantine. Then a coworker in the department, and a random cousin.

antibody tests are coming depending on where you live the community infection rate will fluctuate greatly, I expect places Albany GA, NOLA, & some of the meat packing or prison cluters will have percentages between 10-20 lots of other places 1-5

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According to this thread, you'd think about 25% of the population has it. This is an awful lot of people on Texags who know multiple people. Sorry to hear all the bad stories

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Really? Why is that? What is the most number of people with the disease someone on this thread has said they've known? 10? If 10, are you suggesting that poster only knows 40 total people via their family, friend, and coworker networks?

Read next posts. I was just shocked at how many know confirmed cases. I don't know anyone that is confirmed. I know a few that have been sick between February and now, even one who went to Italy right as this was all starting and came back sick. But maybe it's my age range? Most people I know are 30ish, and the couple I know that have been sick lately idn't develop severe enough symptoms to go to the hospital so we don't know what it was.

Even I had what I assumed was the flu back in February.

To add to that. 1.3mm confirmed. Anywhere from 328mm to 360mm in America. Basically 1 out of every 253-275 americans confirmed. So yeah, it's a little shocking how many know multiple people. I don't know 253 people well enough to get updates on whether they have been confirmed enough. Maybe 100 people I would have that kind of relationship with? Heck, I might have some long term acquaintances that have been confirmed, but I wouldn't know about it.

I know of 3. All low to mid 40s.

2 were sick but no hospitalization. The other had to be hospitalized but no ventilator/intubation.

All now recovered.

beerad12man said:

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To add to that. 1.3mm confirmed. Anywhere from 328mm to 360mm in America. Basically 1 out of every 253-275 americans confirmed. So yeah, it's a little shocking how many know multiple people. I don't know 253 people well enough to get updates on whether they have been confirmed enough. Maybe 100 people I would have that kind of relationship with? Heck, I might have some long term acquaintances that have been confirmed, but I wouldn't know about it.

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only people who know someone are responding on this thread... sooo...

I think we just all need to accept that we're all going to get it. Now, or a year from now.

Yeah, I get it. The more I thought about the more it kind of sunk it. It makes sense. Just was a little shocking to read at first.

and the old adage
Bad news Travels fast is very true

I just didn't see how you got to 25%. Most people have hundreds, if not a thousand, people in their "circle" - all extended family, all friends from current and past stages of life (social media), and all coworkers. You can see people are posting a "friend of mine's ex", or "my neighbor's old boss" - ie, pretty extreme 5th hand connections they just happened to hear about. It's also possible some here work in health care or other industries hit harder.

Don't worry - as you said it's 1 in every 270 Americans or so that have TESTED positive, and most people here are just discussing those that are confirmed as having COVID. Still a very very low percentage as of today.

I know three. Mid-20s (recovered at home), mid-40s (hospitalized, was in pretty bad shape) and 70s (ICU, they didn't think she was going to make it but she pulled through). The mid-40s is a cousin of mine who is a tough SOB ranch worker and he said it was the worst experience of his life.

beerad12man said:

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Yeah, I get it. The more I thought about the more it kind of sunk it. It makes sense. Just was a little shocking to read at first.

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right.

And I'm still holding out hope, anecdotally, that there are A LOT more people that have gotten this than we'll ever really know.

My 36yr old brother was going in for an elective surgery. Got swabbed. Tested positive.

No symptoms at all - not even a cough (and he used to be a smoker), none from his wife or 4yr old son either. He's been WFH for 8 weeks.

That was almost 2 weeks ago. Still nothing.

Because it was an off the chest number with minimal thought into it fresh off of reading the thread.

The canary in the coal mine is the nursing facilities , if there are few to none clutters in nursing facilities than it is unlikely they community infection rate is high

Makes me want to go get the antibody test. Was traveling a ton from January-mid March then locked it down.

However, I've never had anything more than a one-evening fever in my life, so I would expect that I would have never known I had this.

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Makes me want to go get the antibody test. Was traveling a ton from January-mid March then locked it down.

However, I've never had anything more than a one-evening fever in my life, so I would expect that I would have never known I had this.

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so was I.

I was in NYC, Boston, Philly, Chicago and DFW airports more than once in Jan through the first week of March.

Dunno if I'm willing to drop $200+ when it really won't change the way I go about my daily life.

I found out yesterday there are ten people from work that tested positive (I was the third known positive). I was released by the Health Department yesterday. My boss told me to take an additional week off rather than return on Monday. I'll probably need it as this virus has really sapped my strength.

Glad you're not symptomatic. Didn't really need to know whether you were loving normally or abnormally though.

Lost a family member to it last week. :-/

F China.

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Lost a family member to it last week. :-/

F China.

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That really sucks. I hope everyone else is doing okay.

Will be praying for your cousin's son and family. So sorry.

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Geez, that's horrible. How old are they? Probably relatively young with a college-aged child.

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Yeah, both in 50s, both in great shape (both were runners in college and continued running - they would do 5ks, 10ks, and halfs even as recently as last fall).

Were trying to self-isolate, working backwards they got it from making a grocery trip (the local supermarket had an outbreak amongst employees).

She came down with a cough, fever, some other things. Got told to stay at home and isolate (which she did, but it was too late at that point).

Bad deal all around.

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Counterpoint said:

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Geez, that's horrible. How old are they? Probably relatively young with a college-aged child.

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Yeah, both in 50s, both in great shape (both were runners in college and continued running - they would do 5ks, 10ks, and halfs even as recently as last fall).

Were trying to self-isolate, working backwards they got it from making a grocery trip (the local supermarket had an outbreak amongst employees).

She came down with a cough, fever, some other things. Got told to stay at home and isolate (which she did, but it was too late at that point).

Bad deal all around.

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Man that sucks so bad. And is scary too. Sorry about everything.

Very sorry for your loss. So terrible.

Wow, that's terrible. I'm so sorry for your loss.

A guy that I know (through a friend, so don't know him very well) that was 30 years old and the son of two MDs recently died from CoViD. His story was that his first symptoms were lower intestinal. After numerous tests they figured out that he had thrown multiple clots to his colon and was CoViD positive. Never had any respiratory symptoms or other "typical" CoViD symptoms. Had his entire colon removed. Shortly after that he threw clots to his gall bladder (not sure the exact pathology here or what the symptoms were). They did surgery to remove his gall bladder and he never woke up from the anesthesia.

Ugh I know. Stories like that freak me out. And I know that most people of that age recover okay, but of course of the three I have known that are <40 years old two have died.