Have you had COVID? If so, how bad was your case?

20, couldn't taste or smell for two weeks. That's it. Mildest sickness I've ever had.

No symptoms 

I haven’t had it, but some family members did. The age range was from 6-75, luckily all of them survived. Everyone said it was fairly mild. 

Think I had it in February or March. February I had a fever for 10 days and extreme fatigue, lungs were clean though. March the wife, daughter and I had something that gave my wife and I some very slight shortness of breath. No laboratory confirmations, but my daughter did recently spend five days in a daycare classroom with a kid that had covid and tested negative so possibly a sign there.

Friend is a doctor - he and most of his colleagues eventually caught it and recovered but apparently 2 (maybe more) residents at nearby hospitals died. They didn’t have any preexisting conditions and were young. 
 

Wasn’t on the news or anything which is absurd. This was all in NYC/Bronx hospitals

One of my best friends and a bunch of family members currently have it. Severity varies.

Friend said he feels like he's been hit by a truck and can't move off the couch. Fever, cough, sniffles, etc.

Aunt and grandma have really bad fevers and been in quarantine.

Few of the younger cousins have very mild symptoms - bit of a chill and sniffles at times.

One of my close friends had it and was very sick for two weeks. He’s always been very fit (run a few miles before gym workout daily type of guy), and he couldn’t even walk around his neighborhood without losing his breath. He said sometimes even hot showers would make it hard to breathe and he’d have to leave the door open.

Thankfully he’s recovered, who knows what lasting impacts that had on him. But he’s alive which is what I’m grateful for.

I'm a perfectly healthy young guy and I was very sick for 2 days. High fevers, lungs hurt for a while (also couldn't go for a run for a month without lungs hurting) no taste/smell for about a month (still some sents just completely changed even nearly 6 months after I had it) and very bad muscle aches as well. Couldn't get out of bed because my back hurt so much.

I had symptoms for about 5 days back in May and most noticeable for me was the fatigue and then restriction in my lungs which made it tough to complete my usual cardio workouts. Did not experience any change to taste or smell. I confirm that it is pretty mild but I am also a reasonably healthy person. Please stay away from your elders if you experience anything like that. 

My dad had it.  Bad fever for about a week and did not improve.  After a week he was admitted to the hospital and then moved to the ICU.  He was on oxygen, given Remdisivir, steroids, vitamin D and blood thinners.  They then gave him a blood transfusion with the antibodies - this is when he began to improve.  He walked out of the hospital five days after he was admitted and recovered at home and he was back to normal work and fine a few days later.  He is 61 and active, but by no means in "great" shape...I would say a pretty average older male.

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Had it back in June. I couldnt taste or smell. I first noticed it when I couldn't taste what flavor pod I had in my juul (sick right?)

I may have had it in May. I felt like i had a sinus infection (I never get those), plus a cough for 1-2 weeks and a light fever / bad fatigue for a day or two. I didn't get tested at the time because it wasn't that bad (and testing wasn't so easy to do back then in Mexico City) but then I did the antibody test a few months later and it came back positive. 

Mid 20s make here. I had it late February. Couldn’t get a test because I hadn’t traveled to a Covid hot spot at the time. 
 

Felt like I had pneumonia for about a week. Fever around 100 for 5 days, a lot of coughing, fatigue, and couldn’t really smell. Also was extremely tried all the time. Cough lasted for a month but got milder after the first week, and I couldn’t go for a run or workout comfortably for a few weeks and felt extremely tired for about a month. Even though there’s a good chance you get mild symptoms, I would still be vigilant about distancing/masks/keeping clean hands because this virus drains you for a few weeks. Also, a friend had it and his fever reached near 105

Brother (18) and Dad (57) had it in August. Brother got sick first and had the shits for a little bit, felt sick, and lost taste/smell (said beef jerky tasted like literal poop). Dad then got it, was relatively sick but not too bad, but then day 9 hit and he was hospitalized. Really thought I was gonna lose him. I thought I said goodbye to him over the phone in the middle of an interview which made me feel like the biggest piece of shit ever especially since I hadn't been able to see him all summer. He pulled through and is getting better but it's been weird to see him cautious since he is not that kind of guy. Even canceled concert tickets for late next year because he is now afraid of large crowds. I think to a certain degree he always will be.

My brother still cannot smell properly and my dad to my knowledge is better. He's not the type of guy to ever visit the doctor, much less tell us when something isn't right, so this experience has been weird to see. My mom who was living at home the entire time luckily never got it though. 

Had it. Very mild (nearly negligible) for about a week. Then the virus kicked my ass for 2 days, very painful and exhausting.  Mostly that ass-kicking was triggered by me self quarantining in an empty and very drafty apartment with no blankets, which led to cold exposure and the virus temporarily having the upper hand. After 2 days I was fine. However I made the mistake of submitting myself to the public hospital for testing ,and they locked me away for 5 weeks, half of it in a solitary confinement cell.  I chronicled the journey on WSO.  

Just because everyone on WSO (presumably young and healthy junior-level finance professionals) are not in danger does not mean that older people can't get really sick and die of COVID. We cannot lose vigilence. I do hope that the US gets its act together. Meanwhile here in Asia, people masked up, stayed home for a couple months, and we've been back to normal for half a year. Gatherings have been back for some time already. The key appears to be to accept that there is a crisis, and take steps accordingly early.  If one denies and obfuscates, then the opportunity to contain the virus early slips away.

I had no sense of taste for 3 days. 3 months later had random heart palpitations but now that's gone..

Yes, false positive 

Got a fever 1 day. Didn't think much of it. But then i randomly took test as well as antibody test 2 weeks ago. I was negative for the virus but positive for antibodies, no idea if it was the fever or just never had any symptoms.

 2 old couples from my extended family around 65y old caught it. One couple both died. The woman in the second couple had mild symptoms. The Man in the second couple didn't die but was very very close and still has breathing problems and has been "retraining" his lungs for 1 month.

Had it back at the very beginning, think jan-feb. Mild sinus-infection like symptoms - went away after a few weeks. Yet it looks like this virus has long term complications as over 7 months later having memory loss issues and developed mild asthma. 

I usually get sick once a year. I haven't been sick yet this year :O probably due to the vigilant precautions that I'm happy SF is taking seriously.

At a big sec school and was asymptomatic 

Couple of family members in their early sixties had it. Was basically a mild cold that went away in a few days.

I had it in mid-March. I’m 22 years old and exercise regularly. Started with a super mild sore throat and crazy mucus that made me wake up feeling like I was drowning on it in my sleep but only for 1 night. Low-grade fever for 2-3 days, dulled smell and taste, super tired and ran out of breath easily. All of that being said, this happened while I was on a ski trip before we really knew anything about the virus, so in hindsight it really did not hit me that hard. Thankfully, staying in an Airbnb and not feeling great, I didn’t have much exposure to public places.

One of my two roommates also got sick with it with similar symptoms and only one of the three people on the ski trip also had symptoms. Everyone recovered in about 2 weeks with no lingering symptoms to my knowledge. Looking back I definitely did not handle it properly, but with fewer than 100 confirmed cases in the US, no knowledge about the virus, and 0 confirmed cases at my college/in the state, I felt there was no way I had it until I got the antibody test...

Colleague had it, 20 something healthy male. Very mild symptoms but he mentioned it was like having a really bad flu that wouldn't go away. He was still feeling 70-80% after 2 weeks of the infection and only got to 100% after a month. Even in people where it manifests as a mild infection, it hits the body harder than a cold or flu.

I had it. It sucked for 2 days then I was fine. It was pretty much like a cold for 2 days then I was sore for like another 2 days after but nothing too bad. If everyone wasn't freaking out I wouldn't have noticed it was anything besides a cold tbh... Tbh it changed my mind on this situation a little. (I'm high risk) 

Just tested positive. Had a mild fever last week (like two days) with some mild coughing. Think I'm completely recovered besides for loss of smell/taste which happened right as I was recovering from fever. Can't taste or smell anything rn. Have spoken to friends who had it and one mentioned he couldn't smell anything for two weeks then regained his sense of smell/taste slowly over the course of a few weeks. Fingers crossed I get it back soon

My Brother (17) tested positive and was completely fine outside of feeling numb in his toes for a few days. My Father (50) then got sick a week later (didn't get tested - quarantined instead) and he only felt somewhat sick for a quick 3-day period; however, he is a machine (works out multiple times a day/eats super clean) so I feel like he is not representative of most 50 year olds.

Possibly.  I had pretty nasty symptoms back in March, but that was back before they were testing anyone. A friend also spackled my wall with the contents of his stomach about a week later. We ran into my cousin and his wife in the village about a week before right as things were shutting down, she's ER and tested positive but was asymptomatic.  A friend who's CIO for an ETF shop you might have heard of was on a ventilator, and the other PM sounded like he got it as well.  They both got better, but it sounds like it makes the Flu a fun proposition.

23, slight fever, couldn’t taste food for 3 weeks. Stayed inside for 10 days and was good

No test, but was in contact with someone who later found out they had it around the time when I visited. Intense fever, chills, muscle aches, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite and thick phlegm which persisted for 3-4 days Then I started feeling better and felt 100% within a week. This was in March.

A relative had it, and until now her lungs haven't recovered fully. 

headache and fever-like symptoms for 2 days but the thermometer was not recording a high temperature. continued working (WFH) through the worst of the symptoms. 

After the symptoms disappeared i returned to my cardio routine which consists of fairly harmless 5-6k at a light pace and I could not catch my breath. This lasted for about 2-3 weeks. 

I can see how this could be devastating to someone with breathing issues or poor health.

Multiple family members and friends have tested positive, none of which have had any symptoms at all. I think we should all realize the difference between a positive test and actually being sick. Just because a virus exists in your body does not mean that it will be able to hurt you. The human body is an amazing thing.