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I want to be tested for covid every week

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I’ve been struggling on and off during the pandemic, but this year has been rough. I’m based in the UK and my region’s cases were higher than ever during December and January.

We live in a small seaside town, I work from home and my partner works as a barista 1-3 days a week (and really wants to keep working for income and sanity). We go out for a walk a few times a week, into a shop for groceries once a week, and otherwise relatively little exposure risk.

We have had two covid tests already this year (negative) after feeling a funny throat, or some coughing during the night. Unfortunately every week I seem to feel a new cold/flu/covid like symptom and immediately want to get a test for reassurance.

This behaviour is terrible and I’m not sure how to address it. Has anyone else struggled with this or has any advice on how to get past something like this? I hope in another couple of months our cases will be very low again and I will feel less exposed, but until then it’s pretty rough at the moment.

Posted Jan 27, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

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