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.

@thisusernameismine

Thanks for your kind words. It was very sad. He had a fall on his way home from my house (now we know it was because of the temperature spike) and my DH and I carried him back to our house to wait for the ambulance. He went into hospital and we never got to see him again.

I had it and my husband and son did not

@JoyceByersWasRight I'm so sorry, can't imagine what you're going through. This bloody virus has robbed us of so much, and stories like this break my heart. Hope you are okay xxx

My sister was down with Covid19. (She got it from her workplace). It was full blown and at one point we were all really worried. She eventually recovered after over 10 days. Her 2 kids and her husband didn’t catch it from her :)

Honestly didn't expect so many stories like this! Very comforting.

As soon as I told my DH about it he decided he had a sore throat I said well then you'd better leave the office and walk home now and cancel your post-work plans. Funnily enough the 'symptom' disappeared! I've taken mine and DC'd temperatures which are normal and feeling totally fine.

Just hope we are all still covid and symptom-free by the end of the weekend so I can go into work!

@R2221 wow, I am so glad she's okay now!

*DC's

Teacher in school had it, visited every class in the school but didn't spread it to anybody. He was wearing a visor and distancing quite carefully though.

Another family I know, she got it quite badly (but not hospitalised) husband and son had mild 2-3 day illness, 89 year old mum who lives with them.... nothing!!

Oh and don't forget Charles and Camilla

Good luck!

It’s a load of scaremongering. Most people who catch it don’t pass it on to people they live with or even share a bed (and bodily fluids) with.

Kind of makes a mockery of the whole social distancing thing.

Unless, there is anyone on here whose whole household caught it? If there was I guess they would have spoken up by now.

Here's a summary of 13 'eligible studies' (Google will bring up more) which shows the household secondary attack rate to be between 4.6% and 49.56%. Higher for elderly people. Lower transmission from asymptomatic cases.

Increasingly the importance of superspreaders is being stressed (eg LA Times Article ). It seems that most people with Covid hardly spread it all and a few spread it a lot. The odds are against your friend being a superspreader but there's no way of telling.

Fingers crossed you're lucky.

Two of my colleagues have now tested positive, one of those I work quite closely I with. I have tested negative.

Lookig at that uni only 10% symptoms so even in 1 house you woukd need another 10 people to find 1 with symptoms. But i guess more likely as you usually live with at least one older person.

Exh was at a (not exactly legal) gathering and the host came down with it the next day. He told me he socially distanced (which I didn't believe) but he didn't get sick. He actually thinks in fact he had it possibly in April thinking back, ve he didn't test as no tests then and symptoms were marginal (I had more definitive symptoms because I lost taste and smell)

My daughter has just tested negative after spending all last weekend with her friend and family where the Day tested positive in Wednesday and the mum and friend on Friday.

I wonder whether she had it earlier in the year as it seems very unlikely she wouldn't have got it from them - she was with them all day, doing a physical activity, shared a takeaway, watched TV from the safe sofa etc

Dh has had it. None of us got it. He’d been to work & seen family & no one got it. I don’t think it’s that easy to catch.

One friend had it and had seen her brother the day before symptoms, his family all then got it but nobody in my friends immediate household got it 🤔

DP got it , was ill for 2 weeks in March / April. Antibodies confirmed.

Dc and I did not get it.

It's not confirmed I had it, but I'm 99 sure I did. Not badly, just loss of sense of smell etc, gastric symptoms and also extreme fatigue.

No one else in house hold showed any symptoms...

I'm the opposite. I know about 6 who had it in March and April, and DH knows about 4 more. In all but one case, I think someone else in the household or their workplace got it.

A lot of people seem to have T Cell immunity - so will not ever get it

www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563

Estimates are as high as 50% for the level of T cell immunity, hence all these stories here...not that you would know that given the pathetic news coverage we receive.

My friend was hospitalised for 2 weeks, husband and 4 kids, had zero symptoms but was deep in lock down so not tested but all were fine.

Colleague had it a few months ago - I had shared office with her for previous week
Neither her DS or DH caught it
She was very poorly and ended up in hospital week after

@hamstersarse thanks for sharing this. Makes sense. My DH had it and tested positive for antibodies. I had a mild lingering cough for 3 months and tested negative for antibodies. Am sure my T-cells kicked in.

I know a family of four where the 10 year old son got it and was quite ill but no one else in the family did. I also know another family of four where the father got it and no one else. In both cases it was no worse than the flu (which admittedly is not fun) but the father did lose his sense of taste for a while.

A lot of people seem to have T Cell immunity - so will not ever get it

Is Manaus a counter example to that figure?