If your secondary school child had close contact with a positive child at school

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did they go on to develop symptoms themselves?

The whole of DS's year has now been sent home with multiple cases in the bubble. A boy who sits next to DS in English has tested positive and I am inevitably wondering how likely it is that DS has caught it.

We had a call on Friday last week at 7.30am to tell my ds his whole form we’re going to be self isolating due to 2 positive cases in the class. As I woke him up to tell him, he said he felt unwell and was warm to the touch. He tested positive after a test. He reckons he didn’t even sit next to the two positive children. But there has since been positive cases with his form teacher, French teacher and English teacher too so who knows who he caught it from.

No. 3 times,

No.

My 13 year old was off for 2 weeks after a girl in his class tested positive (asymptomatic, her parents had symptoms). All the class off, plus the girls in another class who had been mixed for PE. About 50 kids.

Not one developed any symptoms.

My DD was in at school feeling tired for two days before she lost her sense of taste. Of the 40 ‘close contacts’ who have been off for two weeks only only of them has developed symptoms.

I think the older they are the more likely though, children lack the receptors needed to develop the disease I think.

Yes, my yr8 DD developed symptoms on her last day of isolation! (Loss of smell/taste)

Grrrrrr @ItsAHardKn0ckLife1how frustrating. And that's just what I'm dreading. Luckily we aren't seeing anyone or going anywhere for Christmas.

So he's tested positive. At the moment he's just got a little tiny, tickly cough, no other symptoms and had there not been cases at school, it never would have occurred to me he had anything wrong with him. I suspect there are loads of asymptomatic kids around.

Child he sits next to at school : nothing.