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The tense of the word adds nuance. I.E: Spiked versus spiking.
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To a degree but dictionary definitions allow for both - "it has spiked" can be used to describe a sudden short term change in trend upwards which doesn't necessarily subsequently fall - though it would be somewhat subjective.
EDIT: The statistical definition is a jumbled mix - describing the trend as "sharp and pointy" but then following it up with "a sudden rise in numbers".
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Seems to be about 2-3 days from infection to symptoms with the variants currently in the UK - persistent cough being one the most common symptoms but there is a flu variant going around which is also making people cough a lot :s it might take 1-2 days to kick in fully.
I'm not sure I trust the data entirely at the moment - though maybe the UK average is different - we definitely had a bit of an up-tick around here at the end of December and now it seems to be more generally picking up probably from mixing over Christmas.
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I felt worse on Thursday, bit achy, cold but had no cough then. Still went to work which is outside on my own. Cough started Sat which is just a tickle cough, other than that I feel totally fine currently
Took a test today which says I have it.
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Sounds like what my better half has, awful coughing fits since last weekend, she's had to sleep on recliner sofa since Monday night because lying in bad made the fits worse. Besides an incredibly feint positive on 30th, multiple LFTs from both of us have been negative. We are now presuming it's flu and not Covid.
Which is presumably why I'm not getting the coughing fits, I've had maybe ~12 single coughs in last 48 hours, as I had jab at start of November. But I feel rotten, bunged up head; throat; chest; massive fatigue. I'm off to bed now, similar time to last few nights, but so easily could have gone to bed after dinner around 1830.
MIL has it too, unfortunately she had jab last week, so not enough time to give full protection. SIL has had something for ~4 weeks now, better than she was, but similar symptoms and negative LFT.
While elderly nan tested Covid positive between Xmas and New Year...
We're dropping like flies at the mo!
Took about two weeks for the infection to subside-coincided with the Doxycycline.
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Still struggling with a full shift at work - pottering around at home I feel back to normal aside from sense of smell is still mostly gone and a slight cough - but after 4-5 hours at work I hit a wall endurance wise and start feeling really weak and if I'm on my feet much start to feel light headed - the last hour and a half or so is a real struggle. I guess it is fatigue though I don't really feel tired with it just weak. Usually once I start to feel like myself again with a cold it takes about 2 days max to get back to normal levels of energy.
Currently doing the rounds in our household, with OH unable to shake it off and me only to reduce pain in my throat through anti bacs, which has now moved it onto my chest.
Day 7 - Mucho better, Still a bit tired and lack of energy but i am sure after another good nights hopefully it will go away, get the odd cough that brings up with it whatever is left on my lungs though, but just done another test and clear so back into work and the office for me thank god.
Good luck people.
I still maintain how bad this would have been if i did not have any jabs, so do us all a favour swallow your pride and get a needle stuck in you for the greater good.
Good luck people.
I still maintain how bad this would have been if i did not have any jabs, so do us all a favour swallow your pride and get a needle stuck in you for the greater good.
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To be honest while a relatively small sample size and purely anecdotal it has been somewhat inconclusive with my family and household with whatever variant we had - aside from my dad with existing conditions where I think having the recent booster helped for everyone else there hasn't been a huge difference regardless of vaccination status. Initially I thought those with recent vaccinations were having a quicker immune response and clearing it faster but as more people have had it and more time the outcome has been very mixed. Though I suspect we've had the XBB.1.5 variant which seems to be somewhat resistant to existing immunity unfortunately.
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The covid I caught over Xmas took probably less than a week to get better, but 2 weeks on and I still have a cough from it. The cough just won't go away :/
Similar here - though mine is only bad if I go out in the cold, the rest of the time it is almost gone, but several of my family are struggling with coughing 2-3 weeks on.
Seems in the 65+ cohort, getting the bivalent jab gives you an 81% reduced chance of ending up in hospital and 86% reduced chance of dying.
Grim. Seems to match with the stories I am hearing of those who have only had 3 jabs getting hit much harder compared to those who had the bivalent booster.
Grim. Seems to match with the stories I am hearing of those who have only had 3 jabs getting hit much harder compared to those who had the bivalent booster.
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3 weeks on my brother is starting to get slight taste issues from COVID, didn't lose any sense of taste or smell at the time. Last couple of days he is finding a small number of things taste absolutely vile like metallic rotting meat.
My sense of smell is still only very slowly coming back.
My sense of smell is still only very slowly coming back.
It's really weird how it affects people differently. Family of three here and none of us had any loss of taste or smell.
Wonder if it's different strains?
My loss of smell (and partial modification of taste (spicy tasted salty)) lasted a couple of days
A couple days extra whilst it started coming back it was odd - strong smells like deodorant smelt like deodorant but weak smells like water (!) and the air smelt dunno how to describe metallic/farmy/sort of smell you get when water goes up nose. Very odd.
A couple days extra whilst it started coming back it was odd - strong smells like deodorant smelt like deodorant but weak smells like water (!) and the air smelt dunno how to describe metallic/farmy/sort of smell you get when water goes up nose. Very odd.
It seems to affect everyone a bit different - it went around at my brother's work which is where we got it from and no two people have had it the same aside from the sore throat, lots of mucus and resulting cough, light headedness.
I seem to be in a minority who had loss of smell or taste, my mum had cold like sneezing/runny and eventually blocked nose which seems only a minority did - everyone I live with had a completely clear nose.
My brother and parents, who are the only ones to have the recent booster, had it start with very bad fever which no one else did - not sure if related to the vaccine or not.
I had Delta like headache and loss of appetite initially and only about an hour of medium fever.
My dad had a resulting chest infection needing antibiotics, albeit an existing weakness there, and had a low blood oxygen episode but fortunately that recovered before it became a medical emergency. I was monitoring my blood oxygen using my phone throughout, as I was a bit worried about the light headedness, and it never dropped below 97%, mostly 98.
Then for me it seems to have infected my digestive system worse - I had a thoroughly unpleasant sore throat, lots of mucus, and other general symptoms same as everyone else but they only lasted about 1/3rd of the time as anyone else - if it hadn't have got my gut I'd have had a very mild albeit unpleasant case of COVID - my immune system seems to have cleared the main infection very quickly but unfortunately some damage was already done.
Interestingly we were all testing strongly and almost immediately positive from the first moment the sore throat came on through to day 8, after which it faded through to about day 11. But from what I can tell no one was infectious after day 5 - there was a few inadvisable social contacts over the Christmas period who seem to have got away with it - but it was scary how quickly and from fairly brief contact it went around my more immediate family within the first few days.
EDIT: I suspect it was the XBB.1.5 strain we had - it is likely a couple of my brother's work colleagues brought it back from a US trip. I can only surmise but it seemed particularly capable of spreading and vaccinations didn't seem overly effective against it compared to what I've seen of COVID previously with outbreaks at work and amongst friends/family where it has been very hit and miss for household spread. People in my household including myself have certainly been exposed to previous COVID strains over the last few months without getting it.
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