Covid

Greciangirl I only know about the over 75s spring booster.

Usernametaken

25Avalon

I still have the NHS app on my phone. Now received notification it’s being discontinued from the end of April.

Of course it’s being discontinued 25Avalon. It was only an experiment to see how gullible people are.
We didn’t test for flu before Covid, yet many people died of it. Can remember the NHS being on their knees each winter because of the flu.
Plus people didn’t wear a mask when it was Flu season.
And it seems it’s the vaccinated that are becoming ill. Jabs working well then!!!!!

From what I read the effectiveness of the vaccinations wanes over time so if you got your last one in Sept, as I did, it is probably not going to give the same level of protection now as it did in the first three months. The jabs prevent a higher death toll; no one ever claimed they would stop people becoming ill, nor do they stop transmission.
Flu is an awful illness too, and, yes, people still die of it. Thank goodness for the vaccinations then. Without that many more would be dying.

Are we getting anymore Covid vaccines does anyone know?

Paid £70 for a pre holiday test (negative) last year. 2 days later (in Germany), I tested positive. Happily I wasn’t ill but the £70 made me really cross. I could have used a lateral flow test at home for nothing to find out if I was positive. This year I’m taking tests with me if we actually get to go away.

Nanderin

Hi 3yrs avoided covid and yesterday we tested positive for covid. Feeling not well at all.

I'm sorry. Covid is not over yet.

We're vigilant to boosters, masks, crowds, people outside our family - Thankfully none of us have been impacted by covid.

Songstress, how irresponsible and selfish of you.
You could have unknowingly had it and passed to on to someone ( like me), who is immunocompromised and CEV.
For people like me, it can be fatal.

Oh dear! Please don't underestimate it Songstress, yes for some people (me) it may be 'just' flu, but for others (my DH) it is really serious and can leave the patient with some nasty after effects.
Have you had it yourself? Oh sorry, you'll never know if you never test will you?

I NEVER EVER test for it. The government is scaremongering. Now we have the vaccine we should treat it like the flu. There are more important things than Covid like the cost of living and fuel bills. It's all about state control.

I came back from London 3 weeks ago with a sore throat and the worst cough I've had in years. Took doxycycline to shift it eventually.

I took several tests, all negative. In case the ones I'd had lying around from when they were handed out free of charge had gone off, I bought new ones through Amazon. Still negative.

It felt like last year's covid but, just much worse.

And yes, Zoe is still monitoring.

I wonder how long immunity lasts?

We didn't catch it again at Christmas from a family member who had it.

I disagree regarding not having immunity after having covid. My daughter (who is vulnerable) had treatment for her illness before receiving the covid jabs and so they had no effect on her. We only know this because we were both part of the ONS covid study which involved having monthly swab and blood tests. My blood test showed I had immunity but hers didn’t. Then we both contracted Covid which gave us both immunity at higher levels.

paddyann54

I had it in the Autumn of last year.Iwas reallyquite ill with it for almost 3 weeks before I got a negative result .
Since then my health has been awful .I've had all sorts of issues that have resulted in me being sent for tests and scans every few weeks .
Thankfully the past week I've been well .I'd forgotten how that felt,and at yesterdays checkup the GP said she thought I was over the worst ...I hope she's right.She was reluctant to label it as long covid just says its a post viral thing .

I think I got it at about the same time as you, paddyann and it was nasty. DH didn't get it as badly as me although he felt quite poorly. Ironically, we were due to have vaccines about then. I'm beginning to have more energy but my joints are painful. That could be coincidence of course.
My friend has Long Covid, could barely walk and the GP sent her for physiotherapy.

I hope everyone who has Covid or is still suffering feels better soon.

What test where you using mine I got from boots. I have a friend in NHS who told me the ones I had at home where technically expired even though date was nearly out but only by months. Couldn't be reliable because of new strain.

I have just heard of a horrific case of an American journalist, as reported in The Atlantic, having terrible heartbreaking abuse and blame on the internet by anti vaxxers after his 6 year old son died, which was nothing at all to do with covid vaccine.

Disinformation can be very damaging.

Grannmarie

Grantanow

When is the next booster due for oldies?

Hi, Grantanow, I was at our church coffee morning yesterday, all the over 70s at our table have received their appointment letters for the next dose of the vaccine.

Thinking of Shel69's DH and all who are suffering from Covid. 💕🙏

We just received ours for the end of April.

My son (lives and works and gets the tube around London) had two negative tests after feeling seriously dreadful this week. He's pretty sure he had Covid though, and didn't go into work.

I'm back to wearing a mask on the tube when it's crowded - hey! maybe if people think I've got Covid they'll give me a bit more space on the tube! Three years and (touch wood) I still haven't had it and I've had every vaccination offered - classed as vulnerable I've got free Covid tests at home.

Ignoring the post at 12:53:41.

Someone I know dismissed it as "flu" - until he and all his family got it and were all ill. Until his father-in-law died of it. That was 2021. With his short memory it's back to "flu and I survived it" -

I don't want it, am making sensible choices to avoid catching it. My very good wishes to all who are suffering with it.

I started what appeared to be a heavy cold four weeks ago - tested every two days, all negative - and I then developed a really nasty chest infection (seen off by antibiotics) which left me bedridden for a week, and on the sofa for another two weeks. I've tested regularly - still all negative - but feel as though I've been run over by a truck...
The last time I felt like this was June 2022 - when I had Covid - and I'm coming to think that I've had it again, but that the tests we've been using up to now are no longer effective (as the virus has mutated). 😞

I assume the ZOE App is still monitoring people?

25Avalon

I still have the NHS app on my phone. Now received notification it’s being discontinued from the end of April.

Of course it’s being discontinued 25Avalon. It was only an experiment to see how gullible people are.
We didn’t test for flu before Covid, yet many people died of it. Can remember the NHS being on their knees each winter because of the flu.
Plus people didn’t wear a mask when it was Flu season.
And it seems it’s the vaccinated that are becoming ill. Jabs working well then!!!!!

Lots of people who have managed to dodge it have now succumbed to it. It's always going to be out there. Hopefully you'll feel much better soon.x

My daughter and I both got sore throats after a visit to look after my grandson for a weekend and put it down to 'toddler plague'. DD tested negative but I had very faint positive. To be honest since the first positive the lines have been so faint I'd have not seen them so I guess my viral load is very low. I too have got through the 3 years without catching it as DD had it when away with work so I wasn't exposed. Just a very unpleasant cold, sore throat and cough but I'll be glad when it is gone!

I and the rest of my family tested positive for Covid end of December 2021. Having just had people visit (legally) who had different reasons for not wishing to catch it, I tested and informed the necessary people. My symptoms were few and atypical and were Covid not a 'thing' I would never have tested. Some family members had no symptoms. On the other hand I know those who have died having caught Covid-19 and one family member who luckily survived was intubated late 2020 for 3 months. All had underlying conditions.
Like flu and other viruses it hardly affects some people yet for others it can be life changing, even fatal and so is another virus to be added to the group that some need to be wary of.

My DD who is on her placement year at university, working in a children's MH home, has just had it for the 6th time. This bout was the worst and she was quite ill with it. I'm wondering if this is because her system has been so badly knocked by the previous infections. Whatever, this thing isn't going away, is it?

Nanderin. I hope you feel better soon. I still wear a mask wherever I go, I get the occasional look but I'm past caring what others think. There are people in my area still wearing masks but not many and over the past week I have heard more people talking of having Covid infections. Having been CEV and still cautious I do worry about catching it, so my mask will carry on going everywhere with me in the hope that it will help

I had it in the Autumn of last year.Iwas reallyquite ill with it for almost 3 weeks before I got a negative result .
Since then my health has been awful .I've had all sorts of issues that have resulted in me being sent for tests and scans every few weeks .
Thankfully the past week I've been well .I'd forgotten how that felt,and at yesterdays checkup the GP said she thought I was over the worst ...I hope she's right.She was reluctant to label it as long covid just says its a post viral thing .