tinyurl.com/y68emcu8 - links to www.ons.gov.uk/surveys
Our family are taking part in this. Myself, wife and 22 year old son.
Back in March, wife had all the symptoms of covid the week before lockdown. The difference though was she had lost all sense of taste or smell as well so we assumed it was just some sort of bug she had.
About a month to 6 weeks later it was announced that loss of taste and smell were now a symptom.
The first test in the ONS survey is a blood test for antibodies. My wife has tested positive for having these even though my son and I have tested negative. My daugher who lived with us back in March has also tested positive for the antibodies. So of a family of 4 living together, two have antibodies and 2 don't. Its the strange things you rememeber - I had made pulled pork in the slow cooker overnight. In the morning the house smelt of pulled pork but she couldn't smell a thing! I also remember feeling ill at the time and saying to her "whatever you had, you have given to me". But it would appear she didn't!
Wife is a nurse so has had her vaccination at the end of December so between the antibodies and vaccine, she is probably in as safe a place as possible just now. Sadly, at her hospice she recently had a covid+ patient and two of her colleagues have now tested positive (they are already weekly tested in the hospice but these were drive through tests as a result of having symptoms).
She is not at the coalface the way zippy's daughter is, and she is obviously used to dealing with deaths in a hospice, but when she actually talks you through her day when she's working in the "red zone" it is absolutely horrible to hear, But this is the reality sadly.
On a positive note, if we go through all the ONS tests in the study, we will each receive £400 worth of vouchers! :)
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 19 Jan 21 at 10:55
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