A friend had it back in April, and had two weeks of the sickest she has ever been. She is now seemingly completely recovered except perhaps for tiring more easily then she had.

An aunt and uncle of hers also had it more recently, with her uncle being sick enough that he had to be put on a respirator, after a couple of weeks he recovered enough that he could breathe on his own and was taken off the respirator, but never regained consciousness, and died a couple of days ago.

A relative of a relative passed away from it a couple weeks ago. I knew him. He was a wonderful fun loving man, worked at a prison in Ohio. His wife tested positive also but was only mildly ill. It becomes a lot more real when someone you know gets it.

I'm in the Houston area, where #'s are spiking but mortality rate is dropping. No one in my very large family or large group of friends has had it or has tested positive for it. And no one knows anyone that HAS had it or has tested positive. In my ZIP code, the incidence of positive cases is .00015877%. I have friends who are nurses and am told MANY beds are available in local hospitals. Yea, I know what the MSM is saying about my area.

Always nice when no one in your immediate family is sick but there are a lot of other people that live in any area. There are other sources besides MSM try AP or Reuters occasionally.

Fortunately, none of our family or friends have Covid-19, as far as we are aware. However, I was sad to read that Canadian-born Broadway actor Nick Cordero has died after a long and difficult struggle with the disease. He leaves his wife and 1 year old son.

Stacey, oh no, I am saddened to hear this. After all he had been through, I hoped he would get better.

I've been following Nick's story. I had never heard of him before. What a tragic ending. He really went through a lot and fought hard. I feel so bad for his wife and baby boy.

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I'm in the Houston area, where #'s are spiking but mortality rate is dropping. No one in my very large family or large group of friends has had it or has tested positive for it. And no one knows anyone that HAS had it or has tested positive. In my ZIP code, the incidence of positive cases is .00015877%. I have friends who are nurses and am told MANY beds are available in local hospitals. Yea, I know what the MSM is saying about my area."

Similar experience. A couple of janitors at dh's work had it, but they were on different floors and dh was working from home. I know people in other states who have had it, but no one I know here has had it. Hopefully, that doesn't change any time soon.

About a week or two ago we had a covid update for patients at work. No info anymore of number of employees and the patients had increased by quite a bit. The only person I know who has had it is a coworker. He thought he was going to die and went to his local hospital hoping they would admit him because he couldn't breath. They didn't and he is okay now.

Friends brother (in his 80s) who wasn't going to make it was sitting up today and had french toast and bacon for breakfast! Having good and bad days. Still in hospital.

Her GD had it bad early on. NYS health dept would show up daily to check that she was quarantined after test. Been back to work, ICU nurse, for a while.

My sister emailed today that my nephew, whom I mentioned above, was not able to improve. He is in his mid 50s and still in the ICU on machines. His family was called to a meeting at the hospital today. She feared it was to pull the plug. He is in a San Antonio hospital, and we saw a story on Rachel Maddow's show yesterday about a Covid19 ICU ward at San Antonio Methodist Hospital where they had a need for a particular machine my nephew is on. They had 10 new patients needing it that day, but only 3 were available. I wonder if that is where nephew is. No word about what they learned at the meeting, but he is at death's door again and not expected to make it. She said he is suffering from infections that were triggered by the Covid19 and the damage those infections have done. My sister is in her 80s, and he has been at the hospital since May 12th, so she has not been able to see her son since before then. So sad. I do wonder how he contracted it.

sheilajoyce, so sad -- if it comforts your sister's family to know that other people care, please let her know we are deeply saddened by this bad news.

Good for you, Raven! It's easy to feel silly when others make fun of us for being careful. Stay strong.

Dh told me one of his co-workers has family in Chicago, who went to a family party a week ago. Yep, seven of his family now have the virus, including his elderly mother. That lady, after feeling sick, .....went to church!!! They shouldn't be open, imo. I'm sure he's sick with worry but cannot do a thing. I don't know whether they were wearing masks, but my guess would be no.

In Houston area where our mayor says the virus is rampant, despite plummeting mortality #'s and empty hospital beds.

https://publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/Resources/2019-Novel-Coronavirus/COVID-19-Data-Dashboards

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3Ph9LEtV_4r5ZdqZeT1aUyoZAGXKzA_Rp4adQ_WriUJaiP6AXhsQ_dcFQ

https://www.dailywire.com/news/amid-percentage-of-deaths-having-declined-cdc-admits-coronavirus-on-verge-of-non-epidemic-status?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

NOWAY why post things from June or earlier in July when this is July 9? It may make things look better but the it tells nothing about current situation.

Edited to add that the ones that are dead may be the lucky ones if the virus leaves people impaired.

The last link was published July 7 & the second link was updated July 3. We're just coming off an extended holiday weekend. Data seems to always get skewed over holidays, offices are shut down & reporters take time off, too. Takes a few days for things to get back on an even keel.

I read the last one and had to wonder when a disease started to be an epidemic only when the death rate was above a certain number. NO other disease is treated in that manner. You can have a regional epidemic of headlice where no one dies but the CDC still calls it an epidemic.

I lost a dear friend to COVID in May. She was in a nursing home in New Jersey.

When I was in our local hospital July 4-5, I was in the ICU section. I asked staff how it had been for them when the covid-19 was rampant in the Chicago area this spring. They were swamped, rapidly converting ordinary beds to ICU, bringing in vents. There were many deaths. I saw two nurses in the ER who were still wearing the full regalia with pressurized suits. Of course, everyone was always masked. No visitors allowed in hospital. The strain, even now, is palpable. I'm so glad our governor was quick with lockdown. I hope we will go back to it as needed. I dread flu season this autumn. (Maybe it will be less due to masking?)

Chisue, I heard a blurb about a lesser flu season this year, due to all the masking and distance from each other. Among most of us, that is. Seems to me it will be tough to differentiate between the two, without a test.

My SIL’s 80 year old parents in California tested positive...both only had “mild cold like” symptoms...and getting better every day.

My nephew is still alive. The San Antonio covid unit shown on Rachel Maddow's show is where he is. The doctors are working up a plan to remove a blood clot and that is the next hurdle. Thank goodness they were not meeting to discuss pulling the plug.

Another week has come and gone in the city that according to msm is at the brink of destruction. Yet, hospital beds are available and deaths are dropping radically. And we still don't know anyone who has it or has tested positive. Not nearly as catastrophic here as the news wants us to believe.

Are you saying the figures we are given are untrue? I look under coronavirus and they are the same as the news is giving.

Thank goodness for the news--other wise we would go on our merry way not even knowing we have it. We sure aren't getting updated from the WH. So the doctors and nurses working in the ER are not telling the truth? I hope you are wearing a mask!!

About 3 weeks ago, my niece’s husband and their 7 month old baby boy tested positive for Covid. They are in Houston and both had very mild symptoms, similar to a cold, with Dad losing his sense of taste and smell. A few days later my niece (age 31) came down with terrible flu-like symptoms, fever and cough, etc, was tested and of course was positive. The pediatrician said the baby should have no ill effects, thankfully. Both my niece and the baby have been at home, she has been teleworking since late February and only out for walks and to go to the grocery alone. Her husband has been working as he is in commercial construction (mostly hospitals and hospital renovations) and that did not stop. All wear masks, so who knows. Pretty sure it traced to him as he was first.

NOWAY and others should be more concerned about the residual affects of the virus rather than the deaths. The virus will be added to that list of things on the questionnaire that you are asked to complete when you go to the doctor. For many the damage will last their whole lives.

I am concerned if/when insurance companies can again deny coverage for preexisting conditions how many will be unable to have health coverage. I started working in that industry when a law was passed that insurance companies must cover health problems if a person had not had treatment for the problem for two years. Some considered any doctor's visit as reason to deny or cancel policies.

Had a text today from a classmate saying that both she and her husband had Covid.,.a home care aide brought it to them. She is home recovering nicely but husband is recovering in the hospital because he recently had joint replacement... the reason for aide.

Thank goodness for the news--other wise we would go on our merry way not even knowing we have it. We sure aren't getting updated from the WH. So the doctors and nurses working in the ER are not telling the truth? I hope you are wearing a mask!!

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Yes, I have to wear a mask to be admitted ANYWHERE here in TX, unless I opt out and claim one of the 11 exemptions our governor allows. But I'm not going to push that. I've got 5 masks that I rotate, and each one gets washed in soap and disinfectant whenever I return from going out. I get my info from the Harris County website, and the Texas Medical Center website. I don't need to know about other states. The death rate in TX is .01049%. The death rate in TX from the seasonal flu was 3x higher at .03376% yet we didn't shut the state down for that. https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/IDCU/disease/influenza/surveillance/2019.aspx

Yes, someday we might look back on this and laugh at all the unnecessary precautions we took. Or not. :-(

"Yes, I have to wear a mask to be admitted ANYWHERE here in TX, unless I opt out and claim one of the 11 exemptions our governor allows. But I'm not going to push that."

Don't let them push you around. Show your freedom, go out without one. Especially into crowds where others aren't wearing masks.

If the virus is not that bad why are you required to wear a mask?

My nephew died from the effects of Covid19 last Friday in San Antonio. So sad. He leaves a wife and 3 boys and a devastated mother and family. He was such a nice man and a great youth sports coach of many years in his community.

Very sad news, sj.

I’m sorry sheilajoyce.

I am so sorry.

I'm so sorry Sheilajoyce. How heart-wrenching for you and your family. RIP to your nephew.

I'm so sorry sheilajoyce.

Sheilajoyce, my heart felt condolences on the passing of your nephew.

Oh no. I'm so sorry for the loss of your nephew, Sheliajoyce. He will be widely missed in his community as well as his family.

I’m so sorry Sheilajoyce. Your nephew sounds like he had been a very active man who will be greatly missed.

He took his Little League team to the Little League World Series, and wowed everyone who tuned in to watch it on TV. A really great guy.

Sheilajoyce, my condolences on the loss of your nephew. Tragic news.

Sheilajoyce, so sad to hear of the loss of your nephew.

Oh, how sorry I am to read this--he fought so hard. You have my condolences.

I'm so sorry Sheilajoyce.

Heartfelt condolences

Condolences on the loss of your nephew, Sheilajoyce.

sheilajoyce -- What an awful waste. Makes me angry on top of sad. My condolences to you and your family.

I cannot understand the sheer selfishness of people who can't be bothered to wear a mask because they think *they* 'don't have it'. Asymptomatic people with Covid are the worst spreaders. Every one of them adds to the odds that another person will sicken, further spread Covid, even die.

We don't even know yet what happens *later* to people with Covid who are currently asymptomatic.

Please, everyone: Mask. Wash. Observe physical distancing. (As Dr. Michael Osterholm says, it's not really 'social' distancing'. The KT is an example of continuing to be 'social', just without physical proximity that can be lethal.)