What happens now for people who never got COVID?

[dalton99a]

https://www.nbc4i.com/community/health/coronavirus/what-happens-now-for-people-who-never-got-covid/

What happens now for people who never got COVID?
by: Amanda Hari, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Mar 9, 2022 / 06:37 AM EST

SAN FRANCISO (KRON) — As more places remove mask mandates, some people may be fearful of catching COVID-19, especially if they’ve avoided it for the last two years.

Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a University of California, San Francisco infectious disease expert, said the chances of catching COVID-19, despite less masking and more people returning to work in person, are low, and he expects it to be even slimmer in the coming weeks, specifically in early April.

Chin-Hong said that the medical field has advanced their knowledge of clinical care for the virus, which is good for someone who was to get COVID-19 for the first time now. People who think they haven’t gotten COVID-19 in the past most likely have contracted it and didn’t know about it, he added.

“We know from the CDC data that about twice as many people in the country, in general, got exposed to COVID than the official counts, so it means that a lot of people are having mild symptoms or no symptoms,” said Chin-Hong, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to Chin-Hong, people who should be concerned about catching the virus despite lower infection levels should be unvaccinated people, people older than 65 who haven’t been boosted, those with a compromised immune system, and anyone who lives with people in those three groups.

[LakeArenal]

1. "Herd mentality"

[StarryNite]

2. In the US over 1,000 people a day are still dying from COVID.

[hamsterjill]

5. It's still frightening to me!

It’s like we are supposed to forget there ever was/is a pandemic now. I must’ve missed the memo!

[StarryNite]

9. I'm with you.

We saw what happened before when even people who had been previously very cautious let up on their precautions, new variants came and things got worse than ever before. At this point when I see people walking around in stores without masks I think of them as being the guinea pigs. I really hope all this casting aside of masks doesn't come back to haunt us. Time will tell. I will be patient.

[RobinA]

23. It Was Easy

to miss. It came out in that hour between COVID becoming a less serious problem and the beginning of WW3.

[hamsterjill]

25. Absolutely right!

Was it even an hour? Sheesh…I can’t keep up any more.

[Initech]

15. And it's mostly voluntarily.

Your chances of dying if you have the vaccine and are boosted are slim to nil. It's the anti-vaxxers that are still killing themselves in large numbers.

[hamsterjill]

26. Until there's another variant.

n/t

[Frustratedlady]

3. I never got COVID, so I still wear a mask when out in public.

I've come this far, why ask for trouble?

[ananda]

4. I wear my mask anywhere I don't know who's vaxed or not.

When I'm with vaxed people, I take it off.

[Frustratedlady]

10. I'm vax'd and boosted, but still wary in public.

Age has a lot to do with it.

[doc03]

6. Never had it and I have had all the shots.

I was at an auto show last week in Cleveland. I was looking at a window
sticker on a car and had on slight cough, more like just clearing my throat. I never noticed there was a guy behind me with a mask, he practically ran from me. I don't think there was one person out of a thousand wearing a mask. I am not living in fear the rest
of life. I had a better chance of being killed in an accident getting there than dying from COVID.

[dalton99a]

8. I think Covid will be gone from the front pages by Easter

[StarryNite]

11. Auto accidents kill over 38,000 people a year in the US.

At this point more than 1,000 people are dying a day from COVID.

[doc03]

14. Most everyone I talk to agees, it is time to move on.

COVID has dominated our life for two years it's time to accept it and move on. I am 74 years old i am not locking myself in the house the last year's of my life. Everyone dies from something.
.

[gratuitous]

24. It's easy enough to wear a mask at public gatherings

To me, it's more sense than fear. I also look both ways before crossing a street. Doesn't present any significant delay, and reduces my chances of getting run over. Wearing a mask for a few hours isn't any serious imposition on me, and reduces the chances of getting Covid. As does washing my hands frequently. I've noticed that I didn't catch a cold the last couple of winters, and I'm usually good for one or two colds of varying intensity each year. If I can avoid catching a cold with these simple and CHEAP countermeasures, why not?

[XanaDUer2]

7. We were working for weeks

With the public at the beginning of it, before the shutdown. A coworker got the "worst flu&quot ?) He ever had and was among us, pre manifestation of symptoms. So I wonder...

[roamer65]

12. Eventually if unvaxxed, they will catch it.

[Zeitghost]

20. With the breakthrough rates we saw with Omicron

And taking future mutations into consideration, I think that's going to be true for all.

[maxsolomon]

13. I've avoided it, and I haven't been particularly religious about masking & social distancing.

I've been dialing it back for a long while now - i stopped outdoor masking over a year ago. I still have to mask at my office, which has a vaccine requirement. That's starting to feel like overkill.

At this point, I'm not particularly afraid of Covid. I'm not elderly, I'm not obese, and I'm not immunocompromised. I'll stay boosted, continue to mask in groceries and public transportation, and use the antiviral pills.

As to the 1,000 deaths a day, I'd like to know WHO is dying now - the unvaccinated? immunocompromised people? the elderly? the obese?

[tosh]

19. Insulin dependent diabetics

seem to be SUPER vulnerable.

Many of the deaths in my community have been from this group. Some of the recent ones I believed (but cannot be certain) were at least partially vaccinated.

[maxsolomon]

22. interesting.

thanks for the info.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. I call BS on "people who think they haven't had covid probably did and don't know"

I haven't had covid and I know I haven't because my housemate has to be PCR tested regularly and she hasn't had covid, therefore it's pretty certain that I also haven't.

[Zeitghost]

21. That doesn't make the statement false

He didn't claim that everyone who doesn't think they had COVID really contracted it. It's also entirely possible, especially if you were both fully vaccinated, that you contracted a non-symptomatic case and didn't spread it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. I have not had COVID and according to antibody test I have a high level of antibodies

Despite the high level of antibodies, I will continue to wear a mask