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by tmaly 2212 days ago
I am not sure if I had it, but I had a back sickness back in December. My son caught something that they said tested positive for RSV. I caught something but got over it.

One of the guys on my team got Covid. The girl sitting in next cube also got it. He said it was like a pretty bad flu, but they both recovered.

My neighbor had it, but he was in Westchester county NY running his cleaning business. He thought it was just stress from all the work. He went to a local urgent care down the road and that is how he found out he has the anti-bodies.

My other neighbor's grandmother had it, she was 85. They gave her the experimental plasma as she did not look like she was going to make it. She recovered thankfully.

So far I only know of one person that passed away from it. A good friend had a mentor who was 63. He was over in London and was forced into a NHS hospital. He passed away from the Covid.

On the note of being cautious, I still would like a formal study done on surface transmission. There has been some much misinformation on this. There was a study cycling on the news months back. CDC did an update to their site recently and all the news sites reported the study was flawed. On May 22, CDC updated website to provide clarification which essentially said they don't know about surface transmission risks.