Have any runners you know gotten COVID-19?

This was early March, when testing wasn't so much a priority as it is now. I am an EMT, and for a while, our orders were to advise potential COVID patients to stay *out* of the hospital unless symptoms worsened or breathing became difficult. We called our doctor who told us to assume we have COVID and gave the same advice.

You're right, though. It could have been a cold, flu (though we are all vaccinated) -- or Mad Cow Disease, for all we know. We won't know unless we track down and wait all day for antibody tests, and we presently have no intent on doing that.

yes ! Covid-19 is not the Normal pandemic. And yes it is also doesn't seemed to be stop. Till Date many people are affected by covid-19 and lot of lives could not survived.

One of the my relative , He is a cricket player, was affect by covid-19. but after treatment of 2 -3 months he is out of this.

I feel if Coronavirus Instant Test Kit was not there in hospitals then yes it could be very dangerous for our doctors to detect millions of people. i would like to thanks, who manufacture the covid-19 IgG/IgM Rapid Test Kit for detecting the virus quickly.

Test kits are pointless. If you get sick, you go home and rest. It does matter if rhino virus, influenza, or corona virus. The Government wants testing so they can show off the numbers for scare purposes. There is no benefit to the infected.

[quote]evaw wrote:

yes ! Covid-19 is not the Normal pandemic. And yes it is also doesn't seemed to be stop. Till Date many people are affected by covid-19 and lot of lives could not survived.

One of the my relative , He is a cricket player, was affect by covid-19. but after treatment of 2 -3 months he is out of this.

2-3 months of treatment for an illness that lasts no more than 3 weeks?

Why?

including quarantine. He is young near 32 years only. Properly fit and fine within 2 - 3 month

A friend of mine who ran track in college and lives in NYC got it. He didn't even know it was COVID-19 until he got the antibody test several weeks after the fact.

It didn't even register with him at the time, he thought it was just a normal cold. No severe symptoms.

Giles Corey wrote:

2-3 months of treatment for an illness that lasts no more than 3 weeks?

Why?

Do you go out of your way to be as ignorant on facts as possible? There are endless examples of severe cases being hospitalized for months. However, even easier is checking any medical website, WHO, John Hopkins, etc. and they all say bad cases symptoms can last 6 weeks or more.

So, you're just a troll, right? Purposely spreading endless weird false information because you get some sort of sick pleasure out of being a troll. Being a troll is just a form of mental illness. You need help.

constantly misinformed wrote:

Giles Corey wrote:

2-3 months of treatment for an illness that lasts no more than 3 weeks?

Why?

Do you go out of your way to be as ignorant on facts as possible? There are endless examples of severe cases being hospitalized for months. However, even easier is checking any medical website, WHO, John Hopkins, etc. and they all say bad cases symptoms can last 6 weeks or more.

So, you're just a troll, right? Purposely spreading endless weird false information because you get some sort of sick pleasure out of being a troll. Being a troll is just a form of mental illness. You need help.

Why are people who test positive for Covid-19 required to quarantine for 14 days if the illness can last six months?

What is the recovery time for the coronavirus disease?

Using available preliminary data, the median time from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases is approximately 2 weeks and is 3-6 weeks for patients with severe or critical disease.

No

The following is from someone responding to the same type of question in a Facebook running community closed group.

"My cousin had it 3 months ago. He's 30 and still can only run 2 miles (and that's a very hard 2 miles). He was a half marathon guy before. He wasn't hospitalized. He's just frustrated. He was like a ~100 minute half marathon. Hiker. Mountain climber. Back mountain skier. He's slowly getting better but he wasn't even that sick to lose so much fitness."

From the below article:

The first unexpected finding is that CAT-scans of the lung showed that two-thirds of those with no clinical signs of Covid-19 had what are called ground-glass opacity abnormalities typical of Covid-19 in at least one lung, and one-third showed ground-glass opacities in both lungs. In simple terms, SARS-CoV-2 is damaging the lungs of the majority who seem symptom-free. The long term health effects of such injuries may be apparent in later life.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/06/19/immunity-to-covid-19-infection-may-fade-quickly/#592e6e6a72e1

Jump to timestamp 23:11 in the below to hear Professor Haseltine discuss the above. He said in the below that the ground-glass opacity will show up years later as lung disease.

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/anderson-cooper-360?episodeguid=80b870ae-df84-46cd-88a6-abe30006e70c

my whole family had it. My kid like most kids was completely a symptomatic. My wife, who has never run a race and walks for exercise lost her sense of smell. I run 2k miles a year, bike 4K miles and run nyc qualifying times in races and I get laid up for a week. Go figure.

I had Corona in early March. Relatively mild. About a week of body aches, night sweats, and coughed up a little blood indicating mild pneumonia which was cured with a Z pack. I stoped running for a week. I’ve kept my base, but without a training plan, I’ve stopped doing speed work. I ran a virtual half, and my time and body were fine. Not near what I can do on a race day properly trained, but I don’t feel any lingering effects. I have no doubt that when races start back up I’ll be able to get my old fitness back

Not runners, per se, but Novak Djokovic, the world's #1 tennis player and his wife both tested positive, along with a bunch of his tennis buddies he invited to a clown party tennis exhibition tournament in Croatia. Also Auston Matthews, whose name will be known to all hosers on the boards as the future face of the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise, one of the top players in the NHL.

It seems like numerous players and staff are testing positive in all major professional sports as they try clumsily to start up again.

I know 2 people who have had Covid. Both of them run.

We had about 20 guys on the high school team test positive this summer. None had symptoms.

constantly misinformed wrote:

[quote]Giles Corey wrote:

2-3 months of treatment for an illness that lasts no more than 3 weeks?

Why?

Do you go out of your way to be as ignorant on facts as possible? There are endless examples of severe cases being hospitalized for months.

Can you cite a few of these "endless" examples?

I'm quite skeptical of these "long-haulers" and am curious the degree to which this is psychosomatic.

Tell any random person that they have a serious respiratory illness and all of a sudden most of them will be hypersensitive to any real or imagined symptom.