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How are people catching it?

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Quarterback11 · 27/09/2020 21:30

Just a very unscientific anecdotal poll...if covid is not totally crazy in your area, how are people who test positive getting it? (If they know).

I'll start:

In a nursing home and bedbound, so presumably through staff.
Hospital acquired
The nanny tested positive and then one of the children she minded did.
No idea but the only place she was was grocery shopping (others in the household mix with the public though. And reports of individuals not isolating in that town Angry)

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Quarterback11 · 27/09/2020 21:32

I'm just curious if it's mostly passing through households/very close contact.

Others I know who were close contacts of a positive case and yet tested Negative include:

The rest of the classroom ( 1 pupil positive)
The other staff and children in a nursery (1 staff positive)

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Lazt · 27/09/2020 21:38

I would really love to see the data on this - the SG must have some evidence for banning mixing in private homes, how much is down to known contacts and confirmation bias??

Waxonwaxoff0 · 27/09/2020 21:41

Cases in my area have been fairly low. No cases in DS's school so far. The people I know who have caught it have all been in hospital settings, either working there or there as a patient.

middleager · 27/09/2020 23:39

Only on Mumsnet could the Nanny sitation arise. Shock

PinkkLady · 27/09/2020 23:40

It’s an interesting question as local lockdowns clearly aren’t working so what is the point of them?

shoofle · 27/09/2020 23:48

The focus is on home transmission because it doesn't affect the economy to ban it. Schools are probably a hotbed of transmission, but the government can't admit that without people going apeshit.

Derbee · 28/09/2020 00:01

The only people I know that have had it all got it at work

Bluelinings · 28/09/2020 00:17

Places where most outbreaks happened last week. Educational settings, then care homes, then work places. Source: PHE

I guess those who caught it then took it home. That doesn’t mean home is dangerous! It just means we all have a home... and home is the most common setting that we take the virus to after catching it elsewhere.

How are people catching it?
Bluelinings · 28/09/2020 00:19

@shoofle

The focus is on home transmission because it doesn't affect the economy to ban it. Schools are probably a hotbed of transmission, but the government can't admit that without people going apeshit.
Completely agree.
Pachonga · 28/09/2020 00:21

In my local area, people are mostly catching it in care homes and at (illegal) parties. I guess they’re also catching it at work but the authorities not keen to publicise that as they don’t want to scare people who have to work outside the home.

ncd5785 · 28/09/2020 00:22

I've know of around 10 people who've been on holiday (abroad, getting there by plane) and 8 of them have come back with it. I assume they caught it in a resort or on the plane

BatShite · 28/09/2020 01:14

The only people I know who have caught it, caught it at work (or got symptoms/positive test after someone at work did)

The only people I know told to isolate as been near a positive person, are from schools, and work.

I have been actively seeking people who have caught it from family and friends assuming that this must be rampant. None yet, or none willing to admit this, which is odd.

Stripyhoglets1 · 28/09/2020 01:49

Son caught it in a communal residential setting. Several of them caught it. Luckily he's recovered OK.

WingingItSince1973 · 28/09/2020 01:54

Good question. Is it easy to catch going shopping? Or is it more condensed areas? Xx

mxjones · 28/09/2020 02:50

@middleager

Only on Mumsnet could the Nanny sitation arise. Shock
Yes because nobody who isn't on mumsnet has a nanny Hmm
MagpieSong · 28/09/2020 06:25

A lot of school cases here.

Egghead68 · 28/09/2020 06:27

At work mainly.

krj2608 · 28/09/2020 07:49

By not washing their hands and singing happy birthday twice! 😂

krj2608 · 28/09/2020 07:50

On a serious note- some workplaces (my husbands) seem a little relaxed with the two meter rule

MsAwesomeDragon · 28/09/2020 07:57

I know a few who had it
1 was in a care home, she died, caught it from staff.
20 people I know caught it from school (I work in a school, but they aren't all from my school)
Several people I know caught it from family members, those family members had caught it at school.

whatswithtodaytoday · 28/09/2020 08:04

The thing is with household spread, it's speeding it to people who wouldn't otherwise catch it. So if your teen gets it at a party, or you get it at work, all the people at the party or your work address at risk. But if you then have your mum, your sister and her two kids over, they're then at risk too - even though they don't go to parties or your work.

And then they take it to your mum's best mate who makes her a cup of tea even though they sit outside, and your sister's kids' schoolmates.

whatswithtodaytoday · 28/09/2020 08:04

Ffs typos, sorry.

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 28/09/2020 08:07

car sharing, house parties, care workers, pubs

Remmy123 · 28/09/2020 08:11

One person I know got it from work (someone sneezed in his face) no one else in the household got it

It's not that contagious