How close did Covid death come to you and yours?

[Larry]

My wife. She came very close to dying - but not from the covid, from the pneumonia she developed. Today she is in excellent health, but for a couple of weeks there I thought I was going to lose her.

[George K]

@Larry I remember that. And I remember how worried and scared you were.

Tough stuff...

[Renauda]

No one in our immediate family. At least six family members of relatives through marriage, and relatives of friends and work associates. Maybe more, didn’t keep track all were over 75 years. A few friends though were hospitalised and recovered….or, in some cases, are still recovering after a year or more.

[Aqua Letifer]

My mother's secretary of several decades.
An old roommate's grandmother.
My wife had a mom of one of her high school friends die.
A nephew of someone we know from working faire.
My wife also had a friend's cousin die.

All pre-vax. All died of COVID and directly from COVID.

[89th]

Fortunately, no one close to me (family or friends).

[xenon]

No one I knew personally, thankfully.

[Ivorythumper]

A grade school classmate -- 58 years old. Seems like he was in good health before he got Covid, passed away in about 3 weeks Dec 2020, intubated and never got off it. Perhaps the protocols today would have saved him? But he was someone I hadn't been in touch with since 5th grade, and we only reconnected through FB about 5 years ago. So that's pretty remote.

I can't think of anyone else.

[Horace]

Nobody here.

[jon-nyc]

Just to add, my cousin was delta the local guy alpha.

[Friday]

My husband's uncle.

He was in his 70's, had some developmental issues from complications at birth, and always needed a caregiver. His elderly sister in charge of his care decided not to vaccinate him because he was always afraid of needles. She thought if everyone else around him was vaccinated that would be enough.

It wasn't. They found him one morning last November struggling to breathe. CXR revealed white lung fields and he was Covid positive. He died a few days later.

My husband and I think he caught it from his elderly sister,who had a cold at the time, but never took a Covid test because she thought she was protected from the vaccine. We would never tell her that though.

[kluurs]

One cousin on my side, one on my wife's side and the avian veterinarian died of it.

[Klaus]

My mother was in hospital after a COVID infection and she came close to dying, but in retrospect it's not clear whether the symptoms were due to COVID, her terminal cancer, or her dialysis (she died a few weeks later).

Apart from that I know nobody who was severely ill, let alone died.

[Mik]

A family friend who was pretty close, but she had one foot in already Terrible health. COVID was the catalyst, not the cause.

One former colleague's husband whom I had meet maybe once.