Anyone here recover from COVID or know someone who has? How many times can it resurge before you're actually well?

Hopefully you rise above 
it all and embrace your healing
Take care and be well...

I personally only know 2 people who had confirmed cases. One died, the other recovered after a week in the hospital. Both were about 70 years old. The one who died was in much better general health. 

If you haven't been, I would suggest that you get tested! If you've tested positive, or even if you believe you were positive, I believe that the current recommendation to be considered "all clear" is no fever for 72 hours and an improvement in respiratory symptoms and/or 2 consecutive negative tests. 

Sending you good thoughts and positive energy for a full recovery!

I know several people who have/had it.  YES it can resurge!!!  It has a nasty habit of letting you think you're over it (5-10 days) then WHAM!  It hits you like a sledgehammer. 
- My brother and his wife were super sick with it for several weeks.  The got to feeling better after about a week and a half, then WHAM!  It hit harder than the first. 
- A man from my church got it (he was an extremely fit and healthy school coach) .  After 2 weeks he felt much better then - WHAM!  he was in the hospital fighting to breathe.
- My niece's husband got it, but he never got extremely sick.  2 weeks later he was fine again.  
- Another person I know has it.  He started feeling better 3 days ago (enough to go and mow the lawn).  Now he's extremely sick with it again.

This thing affects people differently, so there is no definite answer to your questions.   The best thing is to rest longer than you would with a "normal" virus... just in case.

I do not know anyone personally who has had it.  I know a couple of people who think they may have had it but did not bother to get a test.  So could have been or could have been the regular flu which was also ready nasty this year. 

My Dad did say he has a cousin in AZ who does have it confirmed with a test but it is not a serious case (last I heard) This  was a least a week ago.  


Glad you are feeling better.  :)

I don't know anyone who has had it.  There are quite a few articles such as this one

https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-risk-of-reinfection-2020-2?op=1

that makes it seem possible.

I didn't know you were sick with it either.  My best wishes for the return of your good health.  I hope you have help with your family.

Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. :(

I personally know 2 people.

A coworker in her sixties, she was off from work for around-about three weeks. I haven't spoken to her personally about her experience because I've never been really talkative with her beforehand, and there's only a small window of time to have a chat because she leaves about half-an-hour after I start anyway. 

The other is male, thirty-two, and was a younger brother to one of my former classmate's. He had a stroke. When they got him to hospital they discovered many other blood clots caused by covid. He died soon afterwards. According to his mother, he was feeling unwell for weeks, she kept telling him to go to hospital but he wouldn't. 

I seriously recommend you get to an ER. Average time from onset of symptoms to hospitalization is 10 days. Don't waste any time, JA. 

My goodness I do hope you are feeling better!

No way of knowing if the cold I had at the end of February or  my husband a week later or so was that virus. Really you are the only person I know about who had had it or claimed to. Mostly had just seemed everyone is afraid - not sure why - seems they never were before. Just something in the newspapers and they talk about "death tolls" and "a state of emergency" and people are walking around with masks on and walking 30 feet out of my way so they won't pass close to me.  Not sure if they are afraid they might catch old age - which they already have!

When I had my cold it started I think on a Tuesday evening and was pretty bad for two days with a lot of hallucinating. Needless to say I stayed home from work. I really had no appetite for several days though I would force myself to eat a little something evenings. And of course cooked for my husband except for the first two days. By the following Tuesday my appetite had returned and we entertained my niece and her family. Then a day or two later Gerry came down with it or something like it.

All that was before people got afraid. I had fallen and to get a referral to an orthopedist I visited a primary care physician where it is possible I picked it up. I don't know.  It was just like a bad cold except I had no appetite. But then I was about due for a cold. 

Gerry and I have continued going to work really without even discussing it at first. In my office where there had been ten women there have since been only two or three and sometimes I have been alone.  People were allowed to go home and our creative teams have been working from home. All of Gerry's people have been working but that is usually outside and on location. 

Eventually when the governor started making proclamations and limiting people's right to earn a living I was forced to consider political motivations. Gerry and I have discussed quite a lot about this. Because there are ramifications which go beyond any possible medical consequences.