How many of you have/do have Covid?

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Are sick with, or have been sick with, Covid 19, or with something that you're 90 percent sure is Covid 19?

I had something back in the first half of March 2020, before it was even recognized that there was community spread in my area, that I suspect was COVID-19 because it felt really different from a typical cold or flu, like I had a sore throat and tickling in my airways but no mucus or congestion at all. A bunch of people at work had something similar before me, and I heard that someone at my workplace had been traveling in Asia around the holidays and had brought a weird "bug" back with her. Back then nobody without serious symptoms was being tested, so likely none of us will ever know if that's what it was.

I've had it at least once. That was last May. Then in October, I had all but one of the same symptoms (no affect on my sense of smell that time) in the same order for the same amount of time, but I never got tested.

I had it pretty mild. The woman I most likely got it from was really sick from it and had hospital bills of approximately $280,000.

Just over a year ago when I was still having to use the London underground I had what felt like a very bad cold. The cough kept me awake for three nights, I had a high temperature and I ached all over. I assumed that it was Covid so isolated myself. No tests were available at the time so there was no way of knowing.

In June of last years I had an antibody test that showed negative. This may not necessarily be conformation that I had not had it I was told. A more comprehensive test would have looked at T Cells - however this wasnt available.

Guess that I will never know.

I haven't had a Covid test, but since I haven't had any Covid symptoms, I think I can safely say I do not have it. I also take the masking and quarantining seriously, so exposure has been limited.