Positive cases - how many in your house got it?

[trunumber]

Am waiting test results (mild cough)

If someone in your house tested positive, how many others caught it and how close was your contact?

Am trying to distance from DH but we have a 3 year old son running between us.

Should I be wearing a mask at home?

Whatever I've got I'm pretty sure I must have got from DS, I've left the house 2x in 15 days (socially distanced with a mask)

@trunumber

For those replying, how well did the positive person isolate?

Dd and her bf were sleeping together! She had it quite badly, tested positive. He had a bit of a cough so also got tested and was negative.

My friend tested positive. Her DH and two kids, including one breastfeeding toddler, either didn't get it or remained asymptomatic.

@trunumber

For those replying, how well did the positive person isolate?

Turned my face away from DS when I hugged him and tried only to hug him when he requested or when I tucked him in at bedtime.

Didn't isolate from DH at all. My DH doesn't ever catch anything. Ot - last year I got norovirus and was really poorly, got it from residents during an outbreak at our care home. I slept next to DH and he stroked my hair all night and he didn't even get that

Thanks everyone, fingers crossed and I hope all who tested positive are feeling well again

3/4 of us have had it. We didn’t test the baby so she was either immune or asymptomatic I suspect a lot of people have had it but show no symptoms. It would have been very easy to have missed the child that did have it

6 in our family. Me confirmed. Husband had mild symptoms, and 3/4 children had symptoms. One child nothing or asymptotic. Not much social distancing as was early on and didn't realise we had it as a family until I became quite ill with it.

4 in our house and 3 caught it (husband and 2 children positive but not me).

I got sent for test by the Zoe app so I know I was negative over a week after husband tested positive so I don’t think I was positive but just asymptotic.

I didn’t isolate from the children at all. One is a 4 month old baby who frequently coughed all over my face!

6 in the house. 1 person positive. Everyone else remained well

4 in a two bed, one bathroom, apartment. I had it, DH and DSs tested negative and no symptoms.

Reading these makes me think the rate of false negatives is higher than they think!

@Bagelsandbrie

Reading these makes me think the rate of false negatives is higher than they think!

Exactly what I was thinking!

In a household where one or more people test positive the others won't get tested until they get symptoms so could have it but be asymptomatic.

2 year old SD tested positive so all 4 of us in isolation. However rest of us tested negative. DD is poorly but rest of us are all ok currently. We can’t distance from a 2 year old!

I currently have it, symptoms started weds. I think dh is going that way to be honest, he's starting to feel very tired, achy and "weird" which is exactly how I'd have described my early symptoms. Ds (5 yo) has had a bad stomach for a few days and pink ears (no temp as such) and I wonder if that's him getting it, as I also had a terrible upset stomach for a few days. But ds 8 and dd17 have no signs yet

I think they should look at the data from isolating families in more detail. The incidence of transmission between family members plus also the time it takes to transmit in isolation could be very useful info. I'm convinced the 48 hours track and trace window is insufficient. I'm sure i caught it at work, and it was 9 days after exposure that I got my first 'official' symptom although looking back now the tired, achy, weird feeling probably started 4 days after that last exposure

And also in addition to this, dh now shoring exactly the same development. Today is 5 days after my symptoms started and I think based on how he was yesterday that today will be Dh's day 1

People being contacted by t&t and doing tests immediately and getting negatives after eg. 48 hours , aren't waiting long enough after exposure to test,

I think the rate of false negatives for self-swabbing but be quite high. The swabs usually need to go right to the back of the throat in multiple areas and high up into the nostril and mustn’t touch cheeks and tongue etc but I’ve seen people self-swabbing who look like they do quick swish around and that’s it.

It’s really common to gag and to have your eyes water if you’re doing it properly.

Four in our house, youngest caught it from school, then DH, but DD and I both negative.

And to add to above, all done at the hospital testing centre, we're NHS staff.

A good friend had it, she thinks she got it from her DH but he never got tested and it's only with hindsight that they think he had it as he had very mild symptoms of feeling a bit off colour and an asthma cough that may have got a bit more pronounced, they thought it was the change in weather which it also could have been. They didn't twig until my friends daughter was tested with classic symptoms, negative. Friend was tested due to work a week later and she was positive, she became unwell later on but no fever and cough is mild and the last symptom (a week after the others). Her second daughter tested negative but GP has said she probably has it and she's been unwell for a while with fatigue and flu. Their ds has shown no symptoms.

The conclusion being the tests are rubbish, the symptoms are so different in everyone that it's very difficult to tell.

@Covidity

I think the rate of false negatives for self-swabbing but be quite high. The swabs usually need to go right to the back of the throat in multiple areas and high up into the nostril and mustn’t touch cheeks and tongue etc but I’ve seen people self-swabbing who look like they do quick swish around and that’s it.

It’s really common to gag and to have your eyes water if you’re doing it properly.

This might be a stupid question but wouldn’t it lead to an inconclusive result instead of a false negative if you don’t swab correctly?

I posted up thread about only 1/5 having covid in our household.

Just to add our swabs were done at the hospital as I'm NHS and part of a covid research project (SIREN). The 4 people without covid were swabbed when DIL had her positive result and also at day 7 and day 14. All swabs negative. The antibody tests were negative at 2 weeks after isolation ended and I'm re- tested every 2 weeks (as part of project) and no antibodies have ever been detected so its not all about poor swabbing and false nagatives (although that may be part of the picture).

There is A LOT we don't understand about covid

The whole thing with the home / hospital tests thing confuses me.

I had a test as an inpatient and it was horrendous- went so far up my nose it was painful and both nostrils done as well as so far into my throat it made me gag.

Dh and I had home tests done and it was barely uncomfortable by comparison. One nostril. Quick sweep round etc. “Stop if you feel discomfort” etc

So to my mind either the home tests aren’t brutal enough and will therefore produce a lot of false negatives OR the ones done at the hospital are totally unnecessarily brutal. Which is it?

4 in the house, 1 adult tested positive with mild symptoms. 1 adult lost taste and smell but didn't get tested as was isolating anyway. 2 children no symptoms not tested

My brother-in-law had it (confirmed with positive test), my dsis who shares a bed with him didn't get it, and of their 3 dc, one tested positive, the other 2 negative.

Also look at famous people: Prince Charles got it, Camilla didn't, Prince William got it, Kate didn't.

I agree with previous posters, there is a lot we don't understand about this disease.