Waiting for test result- should I send ds to school?

[Joynot]

Ds had a cough on Sunday, in a panic, I booked a test yesterday 9am.
He coughed about twice yesterday, there’s nothing wrong with him
Would you send him in ?

No, just for the reason that if it was positive, you will look very irresponsible and it will not go down well.

You were concerned enough to test- so follow the rules.

A friend of mine was waiting on a test as someone she worked with had tested Pos and they work closely together. Track and trace told her only she had to isolate in her family she had no symptoms and her test was neg in the end.

A slightly different scenario because it was an adult. The person got tested but then felt fine. Was sure it wasn't Covid so went out. Test was + and so far 8 other people have now tested + because of him going out before getting the result.

Your son was coughing. That means it could be Covid. Isolate and wait for the results.

@Legoandloldolls

Yep I do thanks. I use my biology degree and experience of working as a graduate as a medical researcher.

If you think that everyone who has caught or spread covid simply because they are feckless than I hope people are kinder to you if you catch it. Someone could be asymptomatic and spreading it. It's a infectious disease. It's really not spreading because people catching and spreading are doing so on purpose. So the reason its spreads I'm sorry or incorrect to say, just my understanding from three years at university studying biology, it's because that's how viruses work. But hey, what do I know? Maybe people are simply coughing onto doorknobs and people are then chasing to lick them? Maybe science has moved on since my studies 🤷‍♀️

OOF! Burn!

I have about a billion questions to ask if.
This interests me so much.

Can I just ask this though, we have researchers at uni (medical) and they said a couple of months ago that there's evidence showing up now that the virus may have mutated and become less harmful because it never actually wants to kill its host, because a dead host can't spread as well as a live host. However, I haven't seen any of those researchers recently so I can't ask them if there's more info, and I haven't read anything about it anywhere else. Do you know?

Did u get the test result OP, I hope it was ok xx