Anyone been in close contact with a confirmed case of covid and not got it themselves?

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Looked after a friend's baby earlier this week. The next night she started getting COVID symptoms and has been confirmed that she has it today. Some friends she saw at the weekend are also covid positive so very likely she (and small baby) had it when I looked after the baby for an hour.

Am I doomed, a bit worried about my own child now and my husband has been going into work etc as we are symptom free.

To clarify, baby showing no symptoms (temperature or anything) but my friend is feeling a bit rubbish.

I know a family where only the Dad out of the 4 of them got it.

I had it and my son (8) didn't, we were kissing and cuddling and sharing a bed all the way up to the test

I spoke to a nurse for advice when I got a positive and he got a negative and she said she was a family of 4 in a small house, 1 person got it the other 3 didn't

Of course I guess there's the possibility that they'd all already had it so had antibodies, or that they did catch it but didn't have symptoms, but the nurse seemed to think it was quite common/not uncommon for spouse/parents and children etc to live together and not all catch it off each other!

My mum had it in April, confirmed. My stepdad living in the same house did not get it.

I know a family where the dad got it but his wife and 3 kids didn't. My best friends mam was in close contact with a friend who tested positive and she didn't catch it.

I know a couple of families where only one of them got it (or, at least, had symptoms - I don’t think the rest of the family were tested).

Of the two people I know who had it (both nurses) their partner/children didn't (or were asymptomatic - also possible).

I had terrible symptoms and my DD2 did too! My DH and DD1 didn't have any symptoms but DH did test positive for antibodies.

Oh wow loving these stories! Thank you. Fingers crossed for her little one and us then 🙏🏼 there are still zero tests available and I'm not paying privately again (my DC had a temperature a few weeks ago) - but regardless, it says not to get a test unless you have symptoms. And we are clearly praying that's not going to happen.

I think it's about 50% for household members? It is not definite you will catch it. Fingers crossed!

My partner has it and I've tested negative, we live together and not sure how I haven't caught it!

My mum had it (she had antibody test and confirmed she has antibody) my dad didn’t have it. We all met up day before she was in bed ill with it - none of us got it. Strange how it works

I am only aware of a few billion people who this has happened to.

I have it right now, and I've nearly finished my isolation. No symptoms at all in DH or either child.

I know a family where the mom got a postive test but her husband and 2 kids didn't catch it.

My friend had to move in to care for her 93 year old mum who caught Covid during lockdown (presumably from a carer, and not tested because they weren't testing outside hospital then, but all the classic symptoms). Her mum recovered after about 10 days enough to be left alone in her flat again with carer visits, and my friend was absolutely fine throughout. (Sadly, today, over 6 months later, my friend and her husband have tested positive so are self isolating. They were contacted by track and trace having spent time outdoors with friends).

Down my parents' road, two men were hospitalised during the first week of lockdown. One was in for 3 days, the other for a week, but in both cases they have fully recovered and noone else in either house was ill. Although, knowing what we now know, they might have caught it but been asymptomatic, I suppose.

Several cases I know where a parent has had it but their partner and children, all in close physical contact before the diagnosis and unable to distance properly in the house after (only one toilet and bathroom, one living space and no spare room) all stayed apparently fit and well.

It is absolutely not a foregone conclusion that everyone in the house will get it, OP. In fact, I think that may be the exception.

I know quite a few people who have had it/have it (London) and none of them spread it to anyone else in their house. Some were before testing was widespread so if they did get it they didn’t have symptoms

My dad had it, and sadly died from it. Both myself and my husband were in very close contact with my dad whilst he was infectious (we didn't know he had it at this point). I had an antibody test a few months afterwards afterwards and no antibodies for me. Neither of us had symptoms.

Oh @JoyceByersWasRight that broke my heart. I lost my dad 3 years ago, so sorry you are going through that.

I was working closely with someone at work who has tested positive this week. I’m waiting on my own result now after developing a cough a few days ago.

There are many studies that suggest the secondary attack rate in the home is less than 40% so if we assume most people were close contacts with people in their home at least for some of the period before the infected person had symptoms, then that suggests that you're actually more likely than not to get it if you're in the same home, let alone other "close" contacts.

Yes, my son (15) He sat immediately next to someone at dinner and was in their house all evening. They were tested and positive for Covid and were quite Unwell. This was at the start of lockdown.
Son was totally fine and so were Ds2, DH and I. No symptoms at all.

My now ex partner had it, we had sex the morning of his positive test 🙈 my friend started with symptoms & tested positive after we spent good part of the day together. I still haven't had it, you arent necessarily doomed!

I had it, gave it to DH, neither of our young adult sons had symptoms - and DH was quite unwell got over 2 weeks so they had a lot of exposure

I had it on holiday and all the 6 people with whom I was sharing a house and in v close proximity to, including elderly parents, tested negative or had no symptoms.