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If your child has had to isolate...

34 replies

Agoodbriskwalk · 15/12/2020 22:21

... did they go on to develop Covid?

How close was the contact?

And does anyone know if there's any data anywhere on how many isolating children go on to contract Covid?

My Y7 child has been sent home to isolate - and unfortunately had quite close contact with the positive case as they sat next to one another for part of the day. The person developed symptoms later and tested the next day and it came back positive.

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Todayisgood2 · 15/12/2020 22:28

Had a few cases in my class but all separate. So children in same class not positive. My dd isolated and only 1 child in her class was positive too. All primary age. So try not to worry.

Comefromaway · 15/12/2020 22:30

Dd had to isolate. She spent an hour in a dance class with a coughing teacher who went on to test positive. She was wearing a mask but others in her class were not.

He walked around the class correcting positions but when he approached her she moved away.

None of the class developed Covid.

Icanseeclearlynow12 · 15/12/2020 22:31

My son's teacher tested positive and my son has got a cough (4 days after last contact) Still waiting for test result but living in hope it's just a cold!

AHippoNamedBooBooButt · 15/12/2020 22:33

Dd walked home, via McDonald’s, with a girl who tested positive the next day and she hasn’t got it.
Kids in secondary schools have lots of close contacts - and the r rate is only 1 so effectively they would only infect one of those close contacts so the probability really is very small

Cleverpolly3 · 15/12/2020 22:34

All three
All tested and all negative and had close contact with positive fellow pupil / nursery child

AstridAv · 15/12/2020 22:34

My son was confirmed as having close contact with a positive case. Most in his (small) class then went on to get it and alot of the parents to. Including DS and me.

HelloDaisy · 15/12/2020 22:38

Friend’s son was in a car for over an hour back in the summer and the other family were ill the next day and then tested positive. Friend’s son isolated for 2 weeks but didn’t catch it

MooseBeTimeForSummer · 15/12/2020 22:43

3 children in my son’s class. Last date of close contact was the 3rd. He was notified and tested on the 7th. Negative result on the 10th.

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Agoodbriskwalk · 15/12/2020 22:45

It does seem so hit and miss as to whether you get it or not even with close contact.

It's hard to imagine how my child could not get it, being shoulder to shoulder and face to face (umasked of course) for a couple of hours with someone who was symptomatic soon after and tested positive the next day.

I hate this. :(

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Babyroobs · 15/12/2020 22:47

My dd had to isolate twice recently. The first time because a member of her football team tested positive, then someone in her school bubble. She did not catch covid either time.

Rollergirl11 · 15/12/2020 22:54

DD (Yr10) is currently self-isolating after 1 of her close friends tested positive. Then the next day another close friend in their friendship group tested positive along with her Mum. DD made journey to and from school (including train) with both of them, sat with them for breaks and lunch. Extremely close contact. It’s been a week since last contact and DD has no symptoms. We’re hoping she’s got away with it!

Todayisgood2 · 15/12/2020 23:00

I should add though that children may have it and be asymptomatic so we think they didnt get it but all we know unless we test is that children didnt show symptoms. A few of my class now have a cold but unless tested who's to know if its covid?

RandomUsernameHere · 15/12/2020 23:02

Both my DC had to isolate. The direct contact was the swimming assistant at school (class is only half an hour). The whole year group tested negative luckily.

WeirdWomble · 15/12/2020 23:05

both DC have had to isolate from contact at school and neither got covid as far as we're away. We did all get a bad cold during their isolations but all of us tested negative so definitely wasn't covid

OverTheRubicon · 15/12/2020 23:10

@MooseBeTimeForSummer

3 children in my son’s class. Last date of close contact was the 3rd. He was notified and tested on the 7th. Negative result on the 10th.
Why did you test on the 7th? He still could well have been negative at that point and positive later, unless you're outside the UK or went private you broke the rules on testing and likely wasted the test.
Firefliess · 15/12/2020 23:11

DD has close contact with a girl in her drama class. None of them from the drama class for ill, and nor did and of the group of friends who the infected girl was with at a sleepover when she became ill (God knows why anyone thought sleepovers were allowed under social distancing rules...) It seems very hit and miss. Though I know if someone who's child was isolating as a contact and never got ill, but he caught it from the child (no other possible options, as he was staying at home with the isolating child) So presumably the child had it asymptomatically.

middleager · 15/12/2020 23:20

My y10 has had six isolations. Out of the 5 (including 2 where the positive cases were very close contacts) he did not develop Covid to my knowledge (unless he was asymptomatic). .

When he caught Covid, it wasn't on the back of an isolation, it was after a few days in school and sat next to a positive child all day. This then triggered the other isolation.

My other Y10 at a different school has had two SIs, one where he was sat near the positive case, but didn't go on to get it to my knowledge, and the second due to his brother's positive case, but none of us caught it (to our knowledge!)

middleager · 15/12/2020 23:24

@middleager

My y10 has had six isolations. Out of the 5 (including 2 where the positive cases were very close contacts) he did not develop Covid to my knowledge (unless he was asymptomatic). .

When he caught Covid, it wasn't on the back of an isolation, it was after a few days in school and sat next to a positive child all day. This then triggered the other isolation.

My other Y10 at a different school has had two SIs, one where he was sat near the positive case, but didn't go on to get it to my knowledge, and the second due to his brother's positive case, but none of us caught it (to our knowledge!)

Sorry, when he caught Covid, it was after being sat by and hanging out with a form mate for quite a long time in lessons and lunch (not all day as stated, as they were in a couple of different options groups). The one child who was positive infected my son and another boy in the form, so three in the form had it in total.
DonnaScozzese · 15/12/2020 23:26

My two teenagers have had to isolate because someone sitting next to them in class has tested positive. No masks. Neither my children developed any symptoms or passed anything on to us.

Scottishskifun · 15/12/2020 23:29

@10OverTheRubicon actually incorrect that's 4 days after exposure. The display of symptoms is most likely 3-5 days after exposure with a large number being 3.
You can also be asystomatic so again actually testing 4 days after exposure is sensible to check this. The accuracy of the test decreases 5 days after the onset of symptoms or onset of asystomatic.

Being identified as a close contact is an allowable reason to access an NHS test this changed a few months ago.

edwinbear · 15/12/2020 23:29

Y7 DS has had two period of self isolation. One after playing football with a positive child, the second being the child he sits next to. He’s been perfectly well throughout so not been tested, I guess he could have had it, but I have no reason to believe he has.

middleager · 15/12/2020 23:32

We've had so many isolations and the schools so many cases that my one son has had 40 days out of school this term, more out than in, and never managing more than two weeks of school in a row.
It became the norm and, then he actually got Covid, which truly was down to spending a fair amount of unmasked and enclosed time with the positive case.
But there were five times when he didn't get it OP, two sat next to the child, so don't worry.
There are numerous cases in my other son's year too and they've closed for the year now.
It's dire here in the West Midlands and we have been living with multiple cases for months, sadly.

Thegreymethod · 15/12/2020 23:38

I've got 4 children, 3 of them have isolated since September, 1 of them twice, none of them have gone on to catch it.

Scottishskifun · 15/12/2020 23:39

My son had a positive case in his nursery bubble he didn't catch it neither did any others in the bubble or any staff members who also self isolated

CarryOnFestiveNamechanging · 15/12/2020 23:40

My y10 is on his second isolation at the moment. He sat next to the child who tested positive for lunch on the last day he was in school. No symptoms.
Last time he has no idea who the contact was. Again, he had no symptoms.

My y8 has done one isolation. Similar story. One of the children who tested positive sits next to him for most of the day.