If you've had it, where did you catch it?

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I've just read another thread where someone was stressed on an outdoor walk seeing people touching gates, brushing past her etc. The responses were that the risk outdoors is very low, and that the real risks are in care homes, hospitals etc.
So I'm curious as to people's experiences on here.
I work in healthcare. The (very) few people at work who've had it seem to have had DC's with symptoms first. One friend had it, but had no idea where she got it from.

Where did you (or think you you did) catch CV?

DH thinks he picked it up at work in January. A colleague returned from a work trip to Wuhan in December and then the whole open-plan office got a really unpleasant virus. Pre-testing so no way of knowing, and pre social distancing and increased hygiene.

I do have an antibody test booked at work this week, and if it's positive I'll assume it's from DH and the DC being unwell in Jan, although I haven't had symptoms at any point.

I should add that I wasn't tested but had classic symptoms but other person is confirmed case, this was in mid March so no general availability of tests

Recent cases I'm involved in are children in schools, who have passed it to another child or adult. I don't yet have the information of where the virus came from to be in the schools.

Haven't had it in our family but two friends and their families have:

1. Friend A caught it from her parents who caught it on a cruise they returned from in early March. She went round to see them straight after they returned but before they started to feel ill and were contacted to say others on the cruise had tested positive for CV19. They all had nasty symptoms but didn't need to be hospitalised. Weirdly, Friend A lives with her husband and two children and wasn't able to isolate herself from them. But none of them showed any symptoms.

1. Friend B is a paramedic who transported corona patients to hospital so very likely that's how he caught it. He tried to keep clear from the rest of the family but couldn't isolate totally. His OH had mild symptoms but her test came back negative. Their children didn't show any symptoms.

Not tested as early on, but classic symptoms which the rest of family subsequently also came down with.
I caught it from a child in my class at school. He had been unwell enough (raging temperature) to be sent home from school and I'd sat with him on my knee reading books waiting for a parent to collect him.
The family received a letter from nhs a week or so later saying that 2 weeks before becoming unwell he'd been treated by a doctor who had tested positive.

A couple we know had it (confirmed) and they were both elderly and had been isolating at home for weeks, not leaving the house at all or so they said. Can only assume it was shopping deliveries or something?

Sadly, the husband died.

If Covid affects children differently to adults does anyone know what age is the crossover?! Does it have something to do with hormones?

At work, in a school in a non-child facing role after February break where many children travelled to areas which we now know had outbreaks.

Re: surfaces. If you look up the Munich Covid-19 cluster on Google Scholar you will see that one persons only interaction with patient zero was when Ms zero passed a salt cellar.

I caught it from my DH who reckons he caught it from being in the Royal Festival Hall during the International Women’s Day event in March (he was meeting a friend in the cafe and walked through a massive crowd of women. So he says 😁)

I had a negative antibody test. I feel like posting the opposite, these are all the places & ways I haven't caught it even though I was in these places & I have just barely mostly stayed within the precise legal soc-dis rules. I never sanitise anything.

barbershop, swimming pool, corner shop, ice cream shop, public toilets, supermarkets, from DH or under 18 DC, work office-kitchen-toilets, hot-desking, post office, chippy, petting random dogs, pub, cafes with friend(s), chatting to neighbours & strangers, daily train journeys at peak times, visits to friend(s), walks with friend, shops, from adult DC who live here PT or don't keep perfectly to SD, school discos, indoor fundraising....

I don't even know anyone who is a confirmed case.

I think I might have had it in March. Just before lockdown friends of ours had a party that included a couple who had just returned from an area hit with it earlier on. A week later the woman in the couple was confirmed to have Covid-19.
I know of another 2 people from that party who got very ill too.

@AppleJane seems like the definition of "child" in the research on transmission and virulence is 9 or under.

I suspect I caught it from public transport. I hadn’t been anywhere other than work before I got it and no one that I work with had it before or after me. I believe I had it end of March although I wasn’t able to be tested at the time.

My son caught it in a nightclub in Birmingham. This was late February. A lot of people were already wearing masks at that point in the club but it’s still a perfect atmosphere for spreading.
We assumed he’d caught it off a family member who is a doctor in a hospital as we stayed at their place a few days before we felt ill. But they have just tested negative for antibodies.
We must have caught it off our son.

Caught from my 2 year old daughter that must have got it from nursery. This is how I usually get ill

I don’t know but I think my baby had it. I was in London for one day in early March on public transport and went in for a training day. 6 days later I had one day of feeling like shit. Fever but no other symptoms. On day 8 my baby started having noticeable respiratory issues and a rash. On day 11 we had to take her to A&E but she was improving and basically not dying so we were discharged without a test or any follow-up.

I had it from a child at school, just before lockdown. Child was ill with high temperature and 'dry coughing', we phoned parents and they collected him but he coughed for half an hour in my office while we waited for parents to arrive.
As I live alone, hadn't seen any family and then we went into lockdown the very next day, I can't think where else I caught it from. I came down with symptoms days afterwards and was very ill for 2 weeks. I do subscribe to the theory that "viral load" plays a part (not yet proven by research). I think if I'd picked up the virus in passing I may not have been so ill but sitting in close proximity with a child for half an hour meant I got more of the virus....can't prove anything though.

If I had it, I got it from my one year old who presumably picked it up at nursery or a baby group. He had a high fever one day, I came down with it a few days later, then usual symptoms.

However, I'm not entirely sure I did have it as I had a productive cough. Everything else the same though, down to us both having conjunctivitis and a weird rash.

I think I had it (classic symptoms) a week before the schools closed. Two of my faculty went off at the weekend with coughs and high temps, one with loss of smell and taste as well. Two days later I went off, and the next day another one of us who share an office was off, so 4 out of 7 people who share a small office within 4 days all had the classic symptoms. At which point we closed the school early as we didn't have enough staff, similar numbers off in other areas and the students parents had already voted with their feet.

We know we had about 4 students who had close contact with tested positive people. We had 2 parents in hospital before the schools shut as well. My eldest son developed a cough and a fever for 3 days and my youngest seemed completely fine.

Tube or office

I was hospitalised with it in April after being ill at home since 23rd March.
No known contacts, but a few days earlier I had been shopping in a supermarket (before screens and distancing came in) and the checkout lady on my till was flushed, sweating profusely, and repeatedly complaining how hot it was in the store that day. It wasn’t - it was quite chilly. She chatted to me from mere inches away, and handled all my groceries. Nobody else in my village seems to have been infected at the time, and nobody at my bridge or table tennis clubs either. I live alone and hadn’t used public transport or been anywhere else. I will never know for sure, but I think she was the likely source.

I caught it from my husband who travels abroad twice a month. He was ill for 2 weeks, I got symptoms about 5 days later then 3 of my 4 kids came down ill. 4th child nothing.

From my boss who caught it from his neighbour, two weeks before lockdown. I had two weeks of coughing in the evenings, ongoing mild symptoms (tase disturbance and upset tummy) for months, and am now really struggling with fatigue. Two negative tests, though.

Re: surfaces. If you look up the Munich Covid-19 cluster on Google Scholar you will see that one persons only interaction with patient zero was when Ms zero passed a salt cellar.

Here is the exact description of events:

www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30314-5/fulltext

Patient 4 had contact with patient 0 on Jan 20, 21, and 22, and reported chills on Jan 24. They had subsequent mild symptoms with slight malaise and slight nose and sinus congestion and were isolated on Jan 28. Patient 5 did not meet patient 0 but did meet patient 4 on Jan 22. Their only encounter was a canteen visit, sitting back to back, when patient 5 turned to patient 4 to borrow the salt shaker from their table.

In other words:

• Patient 4 and Patient 5 were sitting back to back in the canteen while having a meal;
• Patient 5 borrowed salt shaker from Patient 4.

If the Patient 5 used the salt shaker after Patient 4 had left the canteen, it would have been a very likely case of surface transmission. However this particular situation suggests some degree of proximity and some form of contact between the transmitter and the infected individual.