Has anyone caught Covid from school yet?

[Worriedmum999]

I am classed as quite vulnerable so have been keeping my Year 1 at home. He is now desperate to go back to school but I am so scared of him bringing it home to me and leaving him without a mother. On the other hand, he needs to go to school for his own happiness at this point.

Does anyone know of any cases where a child has caught it at school, particularly if they have brought it home?

We are in a similar situation but my Year 1 has a brother who is vulnerable and his surgeon believes he would be hospitalised with the virus. As I teach I have to go in but I’m not sending my Year 1 as we want to minimise further risk.

My school is in London and we had confirmed cases of Covid before lockdown with two parents in hospital. Lots of staff with symptoms but no one knows if they actually had it. Lots of children were off with coughs but again we just don’t know.

There were several confirmed cases at my DC’s school pre lockdown. I became ill myself with suspected Covid-19 (GP suspected but I didn’t fit the criteria for testing at the time) and my DH and DS1 had very mild symptoms - we all became ill at the same time. However, there were also a few cases at my place of work so I could have picked it up there and passed it to DH and DS1. It didn’t spread rapidly at either my workplace or the school. My DS1 (year 5) is going back to school tomorrow and I am not concerned as I consider it to be much safer that it was pre lockdown due to the additional measures they have put in place.

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Clearly it depends on vulnerability, but if you’re young enough to have a Year 1 child, your risk is likely to be very low even with vulnerabilities. For instance, if say your vulnerability put you at, say, 30% higher risk, that sounds very scary, but if the general risk for your age and sex was say 0.001%, it would mean your risk increased to 0.0013%.... still very, very low risk.

The risk with Covid is very significantly linked to age.... such that a 50 year old healthy man is at greater risk than a 35 year old woman with co-morbidities.

montrealgazette.com/news/coronavirus-infects-nine-of-11-students-in-trois-rivieres-classroom

How would we know? No track and trace up and running, people not keeping to lockdown rules. To know for sure whether schools are an issue, we needed to extend opening in isolation before anything else. The government panicked about the economy and shot backed themselves into a corner over schools.

The trinity school in Carlisle had an outbreak pre lockdown. It's a secondary school.

We had parents and staff in hospital before lockdown. None since we’ve been back yet,

I caught it working in a school before lockdown. We had, had lots of children off with high fevers and cough. I am still under the hospital as not better yet (I am young and fit).