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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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Currently it is being talked about that one in 50 people in the country have the virus, is there any way of trying to work out, just for interest, how many people in total will have had it?
Maybe half of the population have already been infected, either symptomatic or asymptomatically?
I understand even if you've had it you may get it again, and I also understand that it does not make you you immune from spreading it regardless of whether you have contracted the virus so far. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I currently have it.
My partner is asymptomatic.
Between March and Christmas I only knew 5 people that had tested positive.
Since Christmas Day I know 17! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I hope you are feeling ok."
Not to bad actually and I'm pretty much over it now unfortunately I think iv been lucky. Most others I know who are healthier and fitter than me felt terrible and two are currently in hospital but iv had worse colds to be honest. |
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Between March - Oct, we knew of none that had had it.
Nov - 1 person.
Early Dec - 3
Jan - 10.
I have spoken to half of the 10, and they all confirm they caught it from within their support bubble (as support bubbles don't offer protection, they just slow the virus down. However they seem to make no odds to the new virulent strain)
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Between March - Oct, we knew of none that had had it.
Nov - 1 person.
Early Dec - 3
Jan - 10.
I have spoken to half of the 10, and they all confirm they caught it from within their support bubble (as support bubbles don't offer protection, they just slow the virus down. However they seem to make no odds to the new virulent strain)
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Thats what happened with us too. |
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By *litterbabe OP Woman
over a year ago
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I know someone who was just a little ill with it and tested positive a couple of weeks ago, luckily, his support bubble which consisted of five other people, all tested negative.
2 of my children were supposed to go back to secondary school this week and would have been tested on their first day back, it would have been interesting to see how many children from the school tested positive as they are in large teaching bubbles. |
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The Office for National Statistics have been testing the population randomly through the year, checking on the levels of people with antibodies.
As the earlier infected weren't tested unless admitted to hospital, we don't have figures for then, so calculated estimates from those with antibodies is probably 1 of the easier ways. It would assume each person had it once, I'm assuming. |
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I worked that out at around 1.4 million. I’m no ONS though :p
"Currently it is being talked about that one in 50 people in the country have the virus, is there any way of trying to work out, just for interest, how many people in total will have had it?
Maybe half of the population have already been infected, either symptomatic or asymptomatically?
I understand even if you've had it you may get it again, and I also understand that it does not make you you immune from spreading it regardless of whether you have contracted the virus so far."
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By *litterbabe OP Woman
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"The Office for National Statistics have been testing the population randomly through the year, checking on the levels of people with antibodies.
As the earlier infected weren't tested unless admitted to hospital, we don't have figures for then, so calculated estimates from those with antibodies is probably 1 of the easier ways. It would assume each person had it once, I'm assuming. "
thank you, I wasn't aware of that. I found the survey and the latest update was printed in December, the next one will be further along in January.
The below paragraph is copy and pasted from their website.
"In England, an estimated 8.7% (95% confidence interval: 8.2% to 9.3%) of people would have tested positive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 on a blood test in November, suggesting they had the infection in the past" |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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I am curious as to how accurate these numbers are especially the stat that 1 in 30 Londoners are covid positive, given that many of the numbers given out previously (thru scientific modelling etc) have been very wide of the mark.
(Not denying the severity etc, just curious as to how they arrived at these figures and to what degree of accuracy they are quoting to). |
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