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I would recommend against using personal anecdotes to get a sense of the commonality in the general population. But it can give us a bit of a sense of the overhyping I suppose. I myself, as a COVID research scientist I work with patients often. As such I get it often. I have had it a total of 7 PCR confirmed times so far. Of those times only 1 of them did I even get symptoms where I would have known I had the disease at all. I have no post-covid symptoms.
Part of the problem is that the data is very skewed and hard to reconcile. The people who actually wind up in studies tend to be a very very small portion of the people who actually get COVID, in fact most people who get COVID will never even know they had it.
We wear full PPE, the patients are in a hospital setting.
I suspect I didnt catch it from working with patients at all, I suspect everyone gets it this often. The only difference is because I get a PCR test multiple times a week that i actually find out every time i get it which as i said is almost always asymptomatic. When i test positive it gets sent over to a lab for verification.
I am not required to PCR test that often, I just do it as part of the test process when i use the equipment each day.
@freemo @PattyHanson If you have had COVID 7 times from working with patients, it sounds like you need to wear appropriate PPE. I work in a cesspool of COVID, doing high-risk procedures such as intubation, and have had it only twice (once from my kid).