Symptoms on day 13?

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My household are currently self isolating for 14 days after DS tested positive for covid. My husband, me and my dd are showing no signs at all after 7 days. Test and trace told me on the phone that people can still be brewing covid until symptoms show up to day 13. Does this happen often do you think?

I tested positive this week. 20 days after DP had covid. I was tested for work. I was asymptomatic until 24 hours after the test. Even then my only symptom was loss of smell (and I wouldn't have even realised unless I'd gone round sniffing at things).

@ThisMustBeMyDream How sure are you that you caught it from your dp?

I think it’s unlikely OP but not impossible. Most viruses present by the 7th day of exposure. Potentially 10. 14 is a long shot. But this is a new virus & so there is a lot of caution being exercised. Not all countries have 14 day isolation. France have 7 & their cases are falling again now so clearly it’s OK. And I suspect has a lot more compliance!

Pretty certain.

No contacts anywhere but work - of which were only staff. Staff who tester with lateral flows on the same day as me - all negative. Also, we are in full PPE.

@ThisMustBeMyDream Crikey! That’s quite worrying then. There’s lots we still don’t understand!

20d isnt unlikely when they could be contagious until day 10 then you have an incubation of 10d.
The 14d is for 1 contact not continued which should really be 14d from last day they are infectious so 10+14.
The cdc mentions this but uk have only gone with 14d. Which doesnt allow for people not isolatig away from each other at home

I think it would be a very small minority who don't show symptoms until day 13. I recall reading somewhere that of those who develop symptoms, 97.5% will have done so by day 11.

@Keepdistance Yes, I agree. The isolation advice we received stated that the 14 days starts from your last contact with the infected person. But with your child, you are still in contact with them all through the isolation! I guess as everyone’s situation is different they have to draw the line somewhere.