QUESTION - How many people do you know who have died from Covid-19?

[progressoid]

Earlier in the year, I read a prediction that by the end of this pandemic, every American would personally know someone who had died from this virus.
The first for me was an uncle who died from it in April. Since then, three more people in my life have succumbed to it.

So excluding people like a friend of a neighbor, or your co-worker's cousin's whom you've never met, how many people do you personally know in your life have been taken by Covid-19?

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	Zero
	30 (48%)
	One
	20 (32%)
	Two
	6 (10%)
	Three
	2 (3%)
	Four
	3 (5%)
	Five
	0 (0%)
	Six
	0 (0%)
	Seven
	0 (0%)
	Eight
	0 (0%)
	Nine or more
	2 (3%)
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[hlthe2b]

1. Patients. No close friends/relatives YET, but severeral w serious sequelae & "long hauler" syndrome

Two HCW colleagues from years past.

[Lucinda]

49. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Phoenix61]

2. I have an acquaintance who is a long-hauler.

He had very mild symptoms but it’s been months and it still comes and goes.

[Lucinda]

48. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Not personally, but the mother of someone I know recently died of it.

And five people I know personally have come down with it, though they are not extremely ill, so far.

[progressoid]

4. I suppose technically one of the four I know might not be a personal aquantance anymore.

I hadn't seen her for a few years since she moved to Arizona to retire.

[Lucinda]

47. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Drahthaardogs]

5. Coworker's mother in law died of it

Lots of coworkers infected. One hospitalized. Government facility. Upper management did not follow our safety rules, they Infected everyone. Covering it up now.

[Lucinda]

46. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[MFM008]

6. I dont know anyone

Who even has it.
Many have been quarantined
All have tested negative
Including me 5 times.
I am blessed each day my son
Gets home from work well.

[msongs]

7. same here, don't know anyone or even OF anyone I know nt

[maxsolomon]

8. I know people who have been hospitalized and intubated.

But no dead people except those I read about in the NYT's "Those we've lost" obits.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Two. One was my high school best friend's mom. We vacationed together.

I stayed over at her house all the time. Her mom made amazing homemade pizza with sauce and ingredients cooked with herbs we picked from the garden.

[Lucinda]

45. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Freddie]

10. My brother's best friend

Retired teacher, widowed, terrific guy.
My daughter and grandson had it but recovered, although it’s been 2 months she still tires easily (the boy is fine). The rest of the family including DH and myself tested negative.

[Lucinda]

44. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Livluvgrow]

11. My Covid list

contains 12 people 4 of whom have died.

[progressoid]

12. Similar to me.

14 and 4. Although two of the 14 have not been tested. They assumed they had it since the symptoms were there (fatigue, loss of taste, shortness of breath etc.). I tried to convince one to get tested to confirm before he went back to work. That was last week, I haven't spoken to him to find out if he did it yet.

[Lucinda]

43. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Lucinda]

42. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[mnhtnbb]

13. I saw the husband of a college friend show up on a list of MD's that have died of COVID

I knew him when he was a resident in pediatrics at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles where I worked.

[Lucinda]

41. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Had To Say None

But I know people who have lost a family member or friend that I never met.
So, I'm only one removed from 4 people that have died of COVID.

[Lucinda]

40. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[KewlKat]

15. My husband's 1st cousin died Saturday and the mother of

the cousin is in the hospital.

[Lucinda]

39. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Hortensis]

16. Know, none thankfully. Knock wood. Know OF - one degree of separation, 7 or so.

That we know of. Most of our friends these days are older, and their friends and relatives also. The stories trickle in.

[Lucinda]

38. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[mvd]

17. Luckily zero

Hoping it stays that way.

[uponit7771]

18. One too many

[progressoid]

20. Indeed.

[Lucinda]

36. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[drray23]

19. two. one of them very well known.

he was in the news the last few days and was an old family friend.

[Lucinda]

35. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Retrograde]

21. None, but my area has been good at distancing and masking

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although the county infection rate is going up. The closest I come is the son of a friend who came down with it way back in March but seems to have recovered. Otherwise, it's relatives of friends.

[progressoid]

22. I think our hospital ICUs are at over 70% currently.

And it's getting worse.

[Quixote1818]

23. No one directly but two people indirectly. nt

[Digger]

24. 1

My nephew.

[Lucinda]

34. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Digger]

52. Thanks

[Lady Freedom Returns]

25. In truth, I might know a lot.

Other homeless people. Many have just disappeared. Some, more than likely, went to the desert to keep away from people. Others, I hope, have been put in motels and hotels throughout the city. But the possibility is great that some are no longer with us.

[Lucinda]

33. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[MustLoveBeagles]

26. Two coworkers and several friends have/had it

Two friends were hospitalized and are now recovering at home. The others were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms. No deaths thank goodness.

[Lucinda]

32. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[greenjar_01]

27. One definitely

A second possibly.

[Lucinda]

31. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. My dad.

[Lucinda]

30. ❤️✿❧🌿❧✿❤️

[Lucinda]

29. Several sick - unknown long term complications - zero deaths.

[denbot]

37. I just had the most horrible thought, could this be the 2020 Kudzu thread..

Fuck, I hate that this is where my mind goes..

[Raine]

50. Zero nt

[LizBeth]

51. I just heard today a friends father died, so I changed my number from one to two.

[ChazII]

53. Luckily zero but four friends from the same brain

tumor that VP Biden son, and senators Kennedy and McCain had. That mean I lost four friends to a rare and incurable cancer that for most is death within two years. One of those friends was my only child. I did a great job raising him because it was his request that his brain be donated to the Ivy Tumor Center at Barrow here in Phx.

[progressoid]

54. How heartbreaking.

I'm sorry. I have no other words...

[ChazII]

55. Thank you. Both my parents died from cancer.

Mom from lung in 2001 and Dad from pancreatic in 2016. But to have my son and three friends all have the same brain cancer (two diagnosed in 2018 and and then two diagnosed in 2019) and then pass this year was tough.

[susanr516]

56. One of my neighbors and a friend of mine have died

My husband and I have both tested positive for Covid, and we're waiting on the results for three others in the house. Four of us have mild symptoms; the other person has no symptoms. I was the first person to get sick and I have no clue where I picked it up. I always wore a mask when I left the house.