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* Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot…

Earlier today, I tested positive for COVID-19. I am experiencing cold-like symptoms but otherwise feel fine which I credit to being vaccinated and boosted. I will continue to work from home while following the CDC guidelines for isolation. This is an urgent reminder for folks to get vaccinated and boosted as it’s the only way to beat this pandemic.

Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder also tested positive, has mild symptoms and is working from home.

* The Question: How many people do you know personally who have contracted the virus since omicron hit? Explain.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:46 pm

Comments

too. damn. many.

Comment by LoyalVirus Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:49 pm
Want to say at least 10 different people. All different circles of friends and family as well. So not just like one big group had it and gave to each other.
They all are pretty sure they know where and probably when they got it. No one has come up super sick from it mostly asymptomatic or mild symptoms then 10 days at home. Cases among people I know started happening around Thanksgivng.

Comment by Frank talks Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:51 pm
Half my household.
The other half.

Comment by Nefarius Veneer Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:52 pm
A ton. Including my dad.

Comment by AlfondoGonz Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:52 pm
I can keep track. Everywhere I turn - work, family, friends - someone has caught it. All vaccinated/boosted. All having a case like the Mayor.

Comment by Montrose Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:52 pm
10 people. 3 of whom are close friends. 2 asymptotic and the rest mild symptoms. All vaccinated and half are boosted. Could have been much worse if not for the vaccine.

Comment by SouthernCentrist Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:53 pm
I can’t count, but I work in a school. The vaxxed and especially the boosted have been asymptomatic or extremely mild. Un vaxxed have been mild to ER visit.

Get vaxxed and boosted.

Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:56 pm
I can count 11 off the top of my head right now. 2 families of four and 3 individuals either recovering or currently sick, one who tested positive today.

Comment by SWIL_Voter Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:58 pm
I lost count. Easily 15-20 including myself and most of my family.

Comment by New Day Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 2:58 pm
Fortunately, just 2. One being in my daughter’s class. The other, my brother-in-law, who has had a rough go. He wasn’t vaccinated and refused to go to the doctor. He ended up in the hospital, naturally. But he is out now and convalescing at home. He is very weak and can’t get around well. It is going to be a long recovery.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:01 pm
I stopped at 12 households, all of which have had at least two people get it. Got word of another just a few minutes ago.

Comment by The Opinions Bureau Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:02 pm
The week or two before Christmas, myself with a mild case. In the weeks since, I can count up to 15-20 without really thinking about it.

Comment by Peanut Gallery Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:02 pm
Many, my kids just today. Waiting on my test…

Comment by Ryan Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:07 pm
Around 5, most of them prior to vaccinations being available.

Comment by Jabes Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:08 pm
just a couple.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:08 pm
two dozen?? too many.

Comment by Cool Papa Bell Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:09 pm
At least 20. We had a cluster in my office, a cluster in a second office location, and some friends. I don’t know the vaccination status of all, but mild to no symptoms for those I know are vaxxed and boosted, expect for one. That person had an underlying lung problem and ended up on oxygen briefly (no ventilator, just oxygen). Fully boosted and recovered completely now.

Comment by Leslie K Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:10 pm
Probably close to half the families I know with kids have a case in the household, and another 25% are currently quarantining due to exposure.

Comment by GoBulls Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:10 pm
Around a dozen. All were vaccinated and most boosted. Mild symptoms with one exception. That person was quite sick for a week.

Comment by SSL Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:11 pm
Coming back from winter break in my school, over a dozen educators out with COVID-19.

Comment by Wensicia Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:17 pm
Also, both I and my wife felt bad for multiple days, but got multiple negative at-home test results. Getting a PCR appointment was impossible. Did we have Covid? Did we not? I really don’t know.

Comment by Montrose Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:20 pm
Nearly 200 at EIU in just this past week.

Comment by MSIX Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:20 pm
My wife brought it home from a CPS school last Tuesday. Her and our 2 year old started having some cold symptoms and tested positive Friday night. My 6 year old daughter and I tested positive on Sunday night. My parents who watch the girls tested positive today and have had some symptoms for the last 2 days. We’re all vaccinated and boosted outside of my daughters. Thanks a lot Lori for ‘following the science’ and opening up the schools after the holiday break.

Comment by Chicago Blue Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:27 pm
Guy at work and his wife had it, nobody told us until after 2 weeks. My eldest sister just had it for the 2nd time. She got it early on, long before vaccines, has long COVID, and her and her husband just had it again. Both vaxxed. Lost my Mom’s cousin a couple weeks ago to it. I always knew her as Aunt Nancy. Her and her sisters called themselves The Golden Girls.

Comment by HangingOn Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:28 pm
At least 20 people since the week before Christmas. A family member had it twice in the last 60 days.

Comment by Oxfordian Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:33 pm
Maybe that explains why she was so cranky dealing with the CTU … Nah.

Comment by West Side the Best Side Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:34 pm
16 total, so far, since December 18th: At least 15, all vaccinated. And 1 person, just yesterday, from Florida, who is not vaccinated.

Comment by ;) Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 3:56 pm
15, off the top of my head. All vaxxed and most boosted, so (as of today) no one has been hospitalized. Most have recovered.

Comment by Bourbon Street Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:00 pm
In my family of four, two have tested positive in the past two weeks. I got my booster in mid-December, and have been tested four times since then. All negative.

Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:08 pm
One. I know someone else who had a breakthrough infection, but that was before Omicron.

Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:10 pm
Honestly - I have lost count the last several days - best guess at present, (pending the next text or phone call) is at least 17.

Comment by DownSouth Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:16 pm
2 out of the 3 people in my household. I was the negative result and I’m not sure that it wasn’t just a point in time as I could have very well brought the disease in without knowing it. Beyond that I seem to encounter someone every day that’s tested positive. And others that complain of cold symptoms but consider it to be no big deal and don’t bother getting tested.

Fortunately for my group we’re all fully vaxed and boosted so life goes on as normal.

Comment by Pundent Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:17 pm
My office executive secretary died of it. A co-worker had it.

Nobody in my immediate family has reported anything yet.

Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:22 pm
I know 10 people. 4 of the 10 have gotten COVID twice. 3 were unvaxxed , 1 was. All 4 never had to go to the hospital or see a doctor in person. However, 5 of the 10 said it was very unpleasant.

Comment by Steve Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:23 pm
Ten and counting, all fully vaxed and boosted. Half with mild symptoms, 5, including my 98 year old mother have been really sick. My Mom was on oxygen and hospitalized and is now home and covid free but very weak. My brother is barely recovered after 3 weeks of bed rest and fluids. No deaths but this hasn’t been an easy or quick for those who got a bad case.

Comment by froganon Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:28 pm
We have several close relatives who have very recently had Covid. One is still very sick.
Some have been vaccinated and boosted and some have not.

Comment by Enviro Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:28 pm
Since omicron hit? About a dozen at the office. All of them vaxed (can’t speak for boosters.) All recovering sans hospital. Lost a member of the community band to it (vax status unknown and no idea if Delta or Omicron).

Comment by cermak_rd Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:45 pm
Both my brothers and I got it and our kids. Too bad none of us was together for the holidays to at least have it have been worth it. Now we will get together because we can’t get sick from each other.

Comment by Unionman Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 4:50 pm
I honestly think my wife and I both had it before Xmas. We both had what we thought were just colds. That was before the symptoms of omicron became known.
By the time we figured out the symptoms, we were over it and at that point didn’t figure testing would do any good.

Comment by Bruce( no not him) Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 5:05 pm
My entire household. Only one asymptomatic. Unable to figure out where we got it. We’re pretty mask compliant and don’t go to super spreader type events. Will now be sporting N95 and KN95 masks.

Comment by Original Rambler Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 5:35 pm
About 6, but I suspect alot more because they’ve been sick but either couldn’t go get tested because of lack of transportation or didn’t want to get tested.

Comment by In_The_Middle Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 5:36 pm
Wife has it now. Her whole clinic is about 60% positive of the 25 of them 2 we’re unvaxed, my wife is fully vaxed. Her symptoms are, according to her, a head cold/sinus infection with fatigue. At this point I’ll probably have it next week. Our 4 yr old had it before Christmas and it didn’t spread to her brothers or us we think that might have been delta and our vaccines covered it.

Comment by Mason born Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 5:45 pm
Exactly 10, including one friend who died the day after my birthday last year, which is coming up soon. Doesn’t include SO having it twice, or SO’s colleagues, who are medical professionals, whom I care about even having not met them in person. Worried about my teacher friends now.

Comment by yinn Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 6:18 pm
Can’t say specifically to omnicron, but quite a few recently. Maybe 4 or 5 people prior to November, 2021. Now at least 6 or 8 since November, and likely quite a few more that didn’t bother to get tested over their cold / flu symptoms.

Comment by RNUG Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 6:40 pm
Six. Five of them at work. That’s five out of eleven people in my department.

One of them went to the hospital for Christmas and didn’t come back. The others are riding it out at home.

Comment by Circular Persective Tuesday, Jan 11, 22 @ 8:42 pm