If the class bubble burst did your child get covid?

[Emmylou292]

Just curious (and very anxious) as one of my DC class bubble has burst. He has been in close contact with the child who tested positive.
Isolating for 14 days, but just wondered how long it would be after contact when he was likely to show symptoms?

@jillandhersprite

Reception child - back in school on Wednesday. Not had any symptoms. Class zoom calls are full so doesn't look like many if any have been affected. We couldn't even work out who the original poorly child was as everyone has been well enough to attend most of them...

It was the teacher who tested positive in DD’s class and he was well enough to run a full online timetable from day 1 so thankfully he wasn’t very ill!

No, she's been sent home twice to isolate since the start of the school year and didn't develop symptoms either time.

No.

School I teach in has had 4 cases in different bubbles but no other children got it.

Both my dcs have had to isolate (twice!) but both been fine

Dds 1 nothing! Sits next to covid kid
Dds2 nothing! Also lays with covid kid

Me: felt sick and tired for a week
No loss of smell cough fever

🤷🏼‍♀️

Sits!!! Blimey he doesn't lay with him😂😂

No, but then the whole year group of about 170 pupils were sent home and DD hadn't been anywhere near the boy who tested positive so it wasn't surprising. No-one else in the year group did either. There have been a couple of cases in different year groups more recently but thankfully the school are now only sending home close contacts rather than the whole year.

No

Nope

DD1 home twice
DD2 home once because of school and home another time when her tutor contracted it and track and trace called
DS1 home once

No symptoms on any bit of courses doesn’t mean they weren’t asymptomatic

Reading this does suggest that Covid is not spreading in school. Despite the children being in close contact with each other. Which is good news.

DS tested positive a month ago. 100 of his bubble sent home to isolate. Not a single case amongst them. DH & I had no symptoms either.

I think it is good news. It would be great if they could do some research.

So for example child tests positive. Then test the whole class and see what spread is. Surely if consistently it isn’t being spread then maybe just really close contacts could self isolate rather than whole bubbles.

It’s awful for children on their 8/9th week of isolation. That’s a huge amount of school missed. I know they are getting online eduction but they are cooped up inside with no exercise or social interaction. There must be a better way.

DD Year 11, one isolation so far and she was sitting next to the girl who tested positive and she didn't catch it.

DD2s primary school has only had two cases so far with no spread , one teacher was part of a trial and tested positive but was asymptomatic so her and her class went home, no one else caught it.

Both the teacher and the TA in my DDs class had it. 2 kids tested positive my DD and a friend of hers. A few more were tested but no more positives. Non of the close contacts of the positive children got it. I think most kids don’t spread it but some do so it’s better to be cautious.

Thank you everyone. I feel reassured reading that.

Ds2 is due back tomorrow after 14 days isolation. He hasn't shown any "main" symptoms but the last few days has said he's had a headache (first thing on a morning) and felt sick but he's been ok otherwise.

DH and I have both had covid recently, there is absolutely no way the DCs haven’t been exposed to it, but neither of them have been ill. I suspect there are a lot of asymptomatic kids out there!