Still haven’t had it, but had a close contact a few days ago, so I’m just curious.
Couple of days. Was sitting on a plane leaving Omaha, we were about a year and a half in so it was fairly safe to travel then, but we still masked everywhere. That didn’t stop big boomer billy from refusing to put on a mask and coughing on my wife and I for the duration of the flight. We were both vaxxed so we pulled through, but it still sucked.
I heard something like “90% of cases will start symptoms within 5 days” or something. Still, take a test, maybe try to stay home for the next few days if you can, and if you must go out wear a mask just to be safe to try to not spread it to anyone else. My immuno-compromised family thanks you for that.
And if you did get it, as long as you’re vaxxed you don’t need to worry. Prepare for a bad flu, the first week be ready for a bad fever, but queue up some movies/TV and plow through it.
Haven’t had a booster in a year, so I’m a little worried. From what I’ve read, it doesn’t really do much after a year. I’ll definitely stay in for another couple days and test though!
Eh most of us haven’t. New version only came out this month. Don’t be worried, it’ll be fine if you do. The scary thing at the beginning was that 1) it was new and doctors didn’t know the best ways to handle it and 2) since so many people got it all at once it meant people who really needed doctors couldn’t get the attention they needed.
Just brace for a sucky flu, and remember the warnings on if it’s time to see a doctor. If it helps you feel better, knowledge is power and this article lets you know what to expect, and for me what calms me down is signs that it’s time to call a doctor. (I get anxiety thinking any old symptom is an emergency, so I like to calm myself down by trying to be rational and say “okay, when is it actually an emergency”).
My wife and I had fevers, really bad for 4 days (we watched all of the harry potter movies and I don’t remember about half of them), cough, sinus, all the standard flu stuff, and that was about 8 months after the vaccine, but your mileage may vary of course.
I caught it 9 days after my wife tested positive. This was delta though.
About a week.
Someone in the office had covid and for some fucked up reason decided to come in anyway and then get sent home but he was in the office for about 45 minutes before he was kicked out.
He was an anti-vaxxer and so kept saying it was just a cold, but even if you believed that why would not just take the opportunity to have a month off work and still be paid by the government? Idiot.
Then I got sick about a week later, and I know it was from him because at the time I lived by myself and I drove my car to and from work so I was never interacting with anybody else.
It’s shortened over time. Original and Delta, it could be somewhere between 4 days and a week. As I understand it, it’s closer to 2-3 days on average now.
I first got it a year ago and it was almost exactly 2 days. I was with my family all day on a Thursday, my brother tested positive on Friday, and after work on Saturday I felt like absolute shit all night. Tested myself at 5am Sunday after not sleeping and was positive.
I was around a friend all day Monday who swore she just had allergies (to be fair, she tested herself that morning and was negative). The next morning, Tuesday, she tested positive. That day I masked up and did grocery shopping, got my free Covid tests, etc. The following morning, Wednesday, I felt a slight tickle in the back of my throat, like if I were holding in a cough. If I hadn’t been thinking about it because of my friend having it, I probably wouldn’t have noticed. By Wednesday night, I had a headache and fatigue that hit me like a truck.
So, about 40 hours to mild symptoms, but by 56 hours, it was hitting me hard.
I was at a crowded event, fully masked, still got it two days later. It had to be the event, I was not exposed in any other way. I work from home, so it was just my wife and I. She got it weeks later while at a nail salon. Again, fully masked.
Mine was bad, and over a year later, I am still suffering asthma side effects. To be fair, I had asthma before, but it used to be mild. My wife is still suffering from the lethargy, but she’s retired military on pension, so she can just sleep.
Within 12 hours. I flew out to Philadelphia to attend my friend’s graduation for her masters. She picked me up at the airport and said she had an itchy throat and a headache but it was allergies.
Bam, 12 hours later, I was completely on my back, horrifficly sick. Took a test, positive for covid. She took a test, positive for covid.
Her sickness continued as a light sore throat and a light headache. I had a 104 fever and it morphed into a nasty eyelid infection, which I convinced myself was eye herpies after googling images of what mine looked like.
Not eye herpies, thank god, but I definitely broke down in tears at the time thinking so.
Still love her even though she gave me covid.
Still haven’t had it
You almost certainly have. A substantial minority never develop symptoms. It’s one of the things that makes it spread so easily. If it made everyone very sick they’d all be safely tucked up in bed and not spreading it.
There is no useful answer to your question. Some people develop symptoms very quickly, some people are asymptomatic for a period, others remain asymptomatic throughout.
If you think you’ve been exposed and you could put others at risk, do a test. False positives are common but they’re better at picking up people who are very infectious so that’s something.
If you want to know if you’ve had it, there are antibody tests which check for antibodies from infection rather than vaccination. (Example for information, not a personal recommendation.) They’re not 100% accurate but a positive is most likely a true positive, given that the vast majority of people have had it by now. They test for two types of antibody, IgM and IgG. IgM should only show up during or immediately after recovery from an infection, IgG turns up later in the course of an infection and sticks around after recovery.
Link you provided, the product is no longer availible
I know that. I did add a disclaimer, I’m not trying to sell the things.
My wife caught it at work, about six months into the pandemic. Was inevitable, since she works in a grocery store. She woke up with a fever and no sense of taste or smell, and then went downhill with really bad flu like symptoms from there. I started with the same thing the next day. Main illness lasted two weeks, but the worst part was the first week by far. My wife was sick for almost 6 weeks and ended up on an inhaler for a while until her lungs healed. Neither of us got our full taste back for almost 2 years, and our smell hasn’t fully recovered yet either (about 80% now).
We both tested positive again last June, got a mandatory week off work but the only symptom was a mild fever. Wouldn’t have even known I was sick, but a family member tested positive and we’d been to visit so took a test and there I was. I’d been vaccinated by that point, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say the vaccination did what it was supposed to do with keeping me from being sick.
I teach in schools every week day. How would I know which school, which day, or which student?
who know where/when they contracted COVID
Obviously you don’t teach English reading comprehension
Sure maybe this question doesn’t fit your lifestyle, but I remember plenty of situations, especially when people were quarantining, that most times someone got sick, they could pretty reliably point to a situation and say “yeah that’s probably where I got it”
Brewery in San Francisco, meeting a friend. We had both been careful and masked up. Ordered a round and went to the far end. Unmasked to drink and chat. Bartender comes over and asks if we want another round. We say yes. He brings it over. Nobody’s masked at this point.
Next day, I get a scratchy throat. Tested positive. My friend, thankfully, dodged the bullet.
I got it in May 2022 after going to the dentist. Symptoms came after 2 days, similar to a cold. I just took something for the fever and I was back in action in about 2 days. The flu I got last year was way worse than covid.
I got it last August. hung out with a friend on a Sunday, he tested positive that night, and I started getting symptoms and tested positive Wednesday, so 3 days for me.
Never. We had a work lunch and one of the guys a few days later said “I just tested positive for covid, better test”. About 2 days later I was testing positive, but none of us in the household ever had any symptoms other than testing positive (about 4 days in, the LFT was going bright red as soon as the liquid reached the test line). None of us ever had so much as a sniffle. The guy we got it off was really rough for a few days.