Positive news! 50% of the UK may have already had coronavirus

We’ll never know for sure I guess.
Some members of my family were very very ill at the end of jan/feb and diagnosed with flu. They’re still coughing now.
If that’s the case then they survived and hopefully are immune

Trying to stay positive but I wouldn’t get your hopes up on this, doesn’t seem that legit 🤷🏻*♀️

I was really sceptical of this idea for a while despite having major symptoms beginning of February- so if that is the case, I definitely experienced the virus.

For reference I commute on public transport and work in a crowded office. For the first week I had a severe coughing and breathing problems, this was made worse whenever I went outside in the cold air. Every time I stepped outside after work I could not help myself coughing and every breath had an very irritating feeling on my lungs. I distinctly remember it being a very dry cough and pointing that out to people at the time, to the point where my back and ribs hurt to touch just because of how much I had coughed.

Then there was also the fatigue. I was getting on/off dizziness/vision issues, just generally feeling off balanced and kind of distorted. Can't really explain it but I was experiencing that every day for at least 2 weeks.

I was really sceptical of this idea for a while despite having major symptoms beginning of February- so if that is the case, I definitely experienced the virus.

For reference I commute on public transport and work in a crowded office. For the first week I had a severe coughing and breathing problems, this was made worse whenever I went outside in the cold air. Every time I stepped outside after work I could not help myself coughing and every breath had an very irritating feeling on my lungs. I distinctly remember it being a very dry cough and pointing that out to people at the time, to the point where my back and ribs hurt to touch just because of how much I had coughed.

Then there was also the fatigue. I was getting on/off dizziness/vision issues, just generally feeling off balanced and kind of distorted. Can't really explain it but I was experiencing that every day for at least 2 weeks.

It might have been COVID-19 but it also might not have been. Like I said in reply, this is why extensive testing is needed. Iceland found that 50% of cases don't show any symptoms.

It might have been COVID-19 but it also might not have been. Like I said in reply, this is why extensive testing is needed. Iceland found that 50% of cases don't show any symptoms.

Problem you got is it is flu season in Jan-March
And Corvid-19 has flu like symptoms.

So, it is just speculation.
Also you have herd mentiality. People hear symptoms and convince themselves they have got it.

Would be nice if true, but... (from the paper draft):

"Our overall approach rests on the assumption that only a very small proportion of the population is at risk of hospitalisable illness."

An assumption that seemingly everything else written on the subject so far disagrees with.

Not saying it necessarily was. That being said IF it was widespread at that time, I'm 99% sure it was. I suffer from Asthma too as well as this.

All I know is that I do not believe an older person or someone with limited lung capacity would be able to cope with that kind of cough, seriously, it was ****ing dreadful.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-may-infected-half-uk-21748044

This may sound worrying, but if you think about it, this is a good thing. If 50% really have had it (most of us won't have noticed), that means there can't be that many more deaths (who knows though), but more importantly it means lockdown and any other social distancign measures can be lifted sooner. With 3.5 million testing kits arriving soon, we can determine who has had it for sure and then send people back to work. Not trying to instigate false optimism, and I hope I'm not being premature here, but maybe we won't be as bad as italy, in fact i'm pretty certain of it. Given theri demographics compared to ours, and the fact other countries like germany seem to be coping.

Many have suggested that northern italy could have been particuarly badly affected due to high levels of industrial pollution. Simialrily, Wuhan and other Chinese cities have ridiculously high levels. In Italy, not only is there a very large, old population, they often live under one roof. Also studies to show that different ethnic groups may be worse affected. This could also explain why Iran is particuarly badly hit; in the Muslim community multi-generational families living under one roof are the norm rather than unusual.

Pretty sure PHE said in the wider scheme of things, only a small amount of people will require hospitalisation.