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All have covid except one DC. Do I really send them to school?

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LarryVeest · 26/10/2021 07:52

All of us have covid, except youngest DC, who has had a negative PCR result yesterday, and a negative LFT just now. I'm a bit torn about sending them into school. Surely it's just a matter of time before they get covid too? On the other hand it seems unfair to DC to keep them at home for (potentially) an extra long isolation (eg if they get a positive result in a few days, and then have to start 10 days isolation).

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cherrybonbons · 26/10/2021 14:00

Please keep them off. This happened in my school and the child in question eventually got covid about 4 days in.
Also where abouts are you in the world? Just curious as UK are on half term

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LarryVeest · 26/10/2021 14:10

@cherrybonbons

Please keep them off. This happened in my school and the child in question eventually got covid about 4 days in. Also where abouts are you in the world? Just curious as UK are on half term
By UK do you mean England? I'm not in England.

I've sent DC in, but will continue to test daily with LFTs.

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clockover · 26/10/2021 14:13

Also where abouts are you in the world? Just curious as UK are on half term

Hmm

No. The UK are not on half term. Some of the UK are on half term. Some.

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LarryVeest · 26/10/2021 14:14

I decided to send DC in as a) that's what the rules day, b) there's a possibility they won't catch covid, and c) if they do eventually test positive, they'll need to do ten days from that point. I don't want them missing more school than necessary.

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itsgettingwierd · 26/10/2021 15:41

@LarryVeest

I decided to send DC in as a) that's what the rules day, b) there's a possibility they won't catch covid, and c) if they do eventually test positive, they'll need to do ten days from that point. I don't want them missing more school than necessary.
I think that's the best you can do.

It's so hard because missing school isn't any better than attending and bringing it in. Purely because anyone could bring it in. Lots of children will be attending from families with covid.

It's not really any situation where whatever you do you win.

You just have to do your best and hope for the best!

HadEnoughOfBears · 26/10/2021 15:48

@cherrybonbons

Please keep them off. This happened in my school and the child in question eventually got covid about 4 days in. Also where abouts are you in the world? Just curious as UK are on half term
"UK" are not on half term
MrsDeaconClaybourne · 26/10/2021 15:50

itsgettingwierd that's what I decided in the end. My other DC had more than likely got it from school so it wasn't like it wasn't already going round there anyway. We're all just doing our best at the end of the day.

twinmum86 · 27/10/2021 17:58

@Hopeisallineed that's great, and they will pick up some symptomatic cases too!

@Piapiano agreed. LFT should not be taken with symptoms though unless you're also doing a PCR regardless of the LFT result, because they do miss A LOT of cases (symptomatic or not)

They are useful in that they pick up some asymptomatic cases that would have otherwise carried on as normal.

Piapiano · 27/10/2021 19:31

Depends what you mean by symptoms though. DD just had a headache so I did a LFT which was positive and then got a positive PCR. Are you saying I should have got her a PCR with just a headache? Or not tested at all because she didn't have any of the three so-called main symptoms?

twinmum86 · 28/10/2021 09:58

No @Piapiano that's exactly the right thing to do. Headache doesn't qualify you for a test so you did the only thing you could and were IBD if the lucky ones for whom the LFT showed positive.

I'm saying that if you're unwell with symptoms on the list (or in my opinion cild symptoms) and you do a LFT which is negative then you shouldn't rely on this because LFT do miss lots of cases.

twinmum86 · 28/10/2021 10:00

*one of the lucky ones

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LarryVeest · 01/11/2021 08:49

A quick update to say that youngest is still testing negative, so I'm glad we didn't keep them off school!

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HelenaJustina · 01/11/2021 08:55

I really believe that at some point the 10 day legal isolation will be lifted and we will be expected only to stay at home if unwell. For how long will secondary children and staff be expected to do twice weekly lateral flows? We don’t do this for any other virus. There has already been a suggestion that you will have to pay for lateral flow tests from Jan 2022 - how many people will bother after that point.
I currently have a DC isolating in their bedroom after a positive PCR, they are on day 5 and had negative LFD on the day of the PCR and negative LFD every day since.

ZenNudist · 01/11/2021 09:01

I have only just seen this but I'd have said at the time not to keep them off. Lots of households don't all get it with 1 or more covid case. We didn't. Most families I know who had it, someone escapes it.

12yo is difficult to keep off school they miss so much!

I think the new rules are much more sensible. That said I didn't mix as much with friends or family when we had covid in the house.

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LarryVeest · 03/11/2021 08:40

Aaaaand DC has now tested positive 😩

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Moonopoly · 03/11/2021 08:50

@twinmum86 I think you are quoting old research. Recent research, which didn’t measure lateral flow and PCR as like for like but looked at them individually, showed that lateral flows had a high chance of showing positive for symptomatic disease particularly when you were most infectious.
Both of my children and my mother in law tested positive on lateral flow first.
Obviously it doesn’t catch all disease but you are wrong to say that it’s only works if you are asymptomatic.

Moonopoly · 03/11/2021 08:51

@LarryVeest oh no. Hope you he gets better soon x

twinmum86 · 03/11/2021 10:17

@Moonopoly I'm not saying it only catches asymptomatic cases. That would bot make scientific sense.

I'm saying LFT are useful BECAUSE they catch some asymptomatic cases which otherwise wouldn't have been known about and would have been spreading Covid.

Of course they also will also show positive for some symptomatic people.

I'm saying you CAN NOT use ONLY a lateral flow on a symptomatic person because they don't pick up all cases. If you have symptoms you must have a PCR done even if your lateral flow is negative.

twinmum86 · 03/11/2021 10:18

*would not make scientific sense

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