DS has tested positive-now the FEAR!

[Money4honey]

DS had a text on Monday due to a weird taste and smell issue. He’s otherwise fine. Just got his results and he’s tested positive! He’s in 6th form.
Since Monday, I’ve kept him and the other 2 DC at home with me. Everyone else is ok.
But now I’m shitting myself a bit... will me and DC and DH definitely get it?? How severe will it be?? Agh. So many questions that obviously no one can answer!
Talk me down please MNers

One out of four of us didn't get it.

I must have been passed it on really early as I was self isolating in my bedroom/en suite, and having meals delivered, as soon as the bubble burst at school. I got symptoms 4 days later but still two members of my family caught it. One tested negative.

DS has just tested positive (not living at home) so does the quarantine start from the test result or from the onset of symptoms? He has already recovered.

10 days from day of onset of symptoms. But anyone he lives with has to isolate for 14 days since the first day he had symptoms.

[quote myhobbyisouting]@Tootletum they are meant to stay in the house. [/quote]
There's no way I'd be staying in the house whether I was isolating or quarantining if I had the option of going out into my garden!

It is confusing.

I am supposed to self isolate for three days after a covid test and before a walk in/out op. As is DP. We will have fuelled up the car and got in food.

We have a small back garden. And a fenced allotment which is huge and where there are rarely people and plenty of walking space to keep 2m apart or just go round a different way.

We will of course keep clear of the allotment. But it does seem odd unless all the hospital staff are doing likewise. And avoiding the dreaded Covid llergy that now appears at 10pm in pubs.

@crosstalk

It is confusing.

I am supposed to self isolate for three days after a covid test and before a walk in/out op. As is DP. We will have fuelled up the car and got in food.

We have a small back garden. And a fenced allotment which is huge and where there are rarely people and plenty of walking space to keep 2m apart or just go round a different way.

We will of course keep clear of the allotment. But it does seem odd unless all the hospital staff are doing likewise. And avoiding the dreaded Covid llergy that now appears at 10pm in pubs.

If you unknowingly have CV and have surgery, you are greatly increasing your risk of complications. The staff are irrelevant to that as in the unlikely event that a HCP passed it to you during surgery, by the time you would become symptomatic, the danger period should have passed. Plus, would you honestly think it reasonable for NHS to have to completely SI permanently? A few days before a planned surgery that you have agreed to shouldn't be too much to ask though!

From studies from China, including where they put families together to isolate when one member had Covid, and from the figures from ships, including cruise ships, it appears that, on average, 14-20% of people exposed to Covid, including lengthy close exposure, will catch it and half of those will be unaware that they have it, apart from a positive test.

Of course, it's possible that of one group of, say 5, 5 will get it while in another none will, and you don't know which you are, but the odds aren't bad.

Also, there are a lot of cases where one partner/spouse gets it and the other doesn't, despite sleeping together, at least before symptoms appear.

When we had it we had separate towels, cutlery toothpaste etc to minimize transmission.

OP:

You may already have had it, and not realised.

You may be one of the people who has natural immunity.

You may catch it. If you do, you'll more or less certainly be absolutely fine.

You ought to worry more about the antibiotic-resistant infections. They actually are potentially worrying (though even then, worrying about them won't make anyone more or less likely to catch them).

Same fear here op. I have tested positive and I am scared in case I pass to DH and DC.

How are you all?

Some of you might be surprised to hear that school staff are allowed and expected to continue working with your children if they have a family member with symptoms. They're only expected to self isolate if they themselves have symptoms, or a household member receives a positive test result.

@smellyhouseelf

Some of you might be surprised to hear that school staff are allowed and expected to continue working with your children if they have a family member with symptoms. They're only expected to self isolate if they themselves have symptoms, or a household member receives a positive test result.

How does that work? If you have symptoms, you and your household have to self isolate - why would school staff be exempt?

This is gov guidance - and includes staff as well as children

@smellyhouseelf

Some of you might be surprised to hear that school staff are allowed and expected to continue working with your children if they have a family member with symptoms. They're only expected to self isolate if they themselves have symptoms, or a household member receives a positive test result.

That's not the guidelines at all

The hospital staff will be wearing protective equipment when they see you - and unlike most people they know how to wear it and discard it properly. You will not generally be at risk from them( as long as they have PPE) , the main risk is you giving it to/ getting it from other patients in your ward.

@smellyhouseelf

Some of you might be surprised to hear that school staff are allowed and expected to continue working with your children if they have a family member with symptoms. They're only expected to self isolate if they themselves have symptoms, or a household member receives a positive test result.

Tell your school they've completely misinterpreted the guidance.

If one member of your home had symptoms - you ALL self isolate. Please for the love of all that is holy stay the fuck home.

Many workplaces have the same rule. Another example is in a chain store , where I know the manager. Their rule is you only self isolate if

1. you have symptoms and are waiting for a test result

Or

2. someone in your household has tested positive.

Whole families are not self isolating unless someone has a positive test.

Our school is sending home children with symptoms, and advise their families to isolate, but not following the advice for their own staff.

" Why staying at home is very important

It is very important that people with symptoms of or a positive COVID-19 test and their household members stay at home. Staying at home will help prevent the spread of the virus to family, friends, the wider community, and particularly those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.

If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or a positive test, remain at home for at least 10 days after the onset of your symptoms (see ending self-isolation below). This will reduce the risk of you infecting others.

If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or a positive test, then you should avoid contact with other household members as much as possible.

Other members of your household, including those who do not have any symptoms, need to stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. Do not go out even to buy food or other essentials, and any exercise should be taken within your home. This 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in your house became ill or if they do not have symptoms, from the day their test was taken. There is more information in the ending self-isolation section below."

www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance/stay-at-home-guidance-for-households-with-possible-coronavirus-covid-19-infection

@smellyhouseelf

Many workplaces have the same rule. Another example is in a chain store , where I know the manager. Their rule is you only self isolate if

1. you have symptoms and are waiting for a test result

Or

2. someone in your household has tested positive.

Whole families are not self isolating unless someone has a positive test.

Our school is sending home children with symptoms, and advise their families to isolate, but not following the advice for their own staff.

Then the school and the chain businesses should be reported. Local police services have protocol on their websites for how to report. As they are preventing others from self isolating, they may be in danger of a hefty fine. www.gov.uk/government/news/new-package-to-support-and-enforce-self-isolation

@smellyhouseelf

Some of you might be surprised to hear that school staff are allowed and expected to continue working with your children if they have a family member with symptoms. They're only expected to self isolate if they themselves have symptoms, or a household member receives a positive test result.

I think you have got confused.

If a class or yeargroup bubble is sent home because someone tests positive:

The family of the person who tested positive must all isolate

The families of the wider bubble (including the teacher) who are sent home do NOT have to isolate UNLESS their child develops symptoms.

So if your child Jack is in class with Ava. Ava tests positive and her whole family must isolate. Jack is sent home to isolate for 2 weeks as a precaution. Jack's family can keep going to work and school unless Jack gets a temperature etc in which case they must all stay home until he gets a negative test result or until 2 weeks after his covid symptoms started.

I am not confused. At the school where I work, we are expected to work if a member of our household has symptoms.

I am not confused. At the school where I work, we are expected to work if a member of our household has symptoms. don't be ridiculous. Anyone even Keir Starmer for example couldn’t go to work as his kids had symptoms. You are confused with pupils being sent home as someone in their bubble has symptoms.
I can’t believe you work in a school yet have made such potentially dangerous error.

@smellyhouseelf above post was to you.

@smellyhouseelf

I am not confused. At the school where I work, we are expected to work if a member of our household has symptoms.

Well please report them using the link above if you know there is a circumstance and they are forcing someone to work who must be self isolating.

Absolutely anyone living in a household with someone who has symptoms must self isolate until the symptomatic person gets a negative test.

I AM NOT CONFUSED! Don't be so bloody patronising.

2 weeks ago my daughter had symptoms. I informed my school and I was told it was fine to go to work. Unless she had a positive test result or I started having symptoms myself.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree. I'm just saying what's happened. And I can assure you it's happening all over the country in many places of work,