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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.
@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).
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.
