My Sil has tested positive fir COVID

[ohsuzannah]

Sil has been paranoid since the first lockdown. All her family have to shower and change their clothes if they go out. Shopping has to decontaminate for 72 hours, wears rubber gloves and a mask practically all the time.
She has now tested positive for COVID . I'm totally mystified!
In our house I do all the shopping etc , as I'm the carer for my dd. I'm also over 65 and disabled, and I haven't caught it. WTF?!

Why would you think she wouldn’t get it from her daughter?

it's a problem that people have stopped listening to public health. It is not March, people should know that ventilation and fresh air are as important as handwashing right now.

Hope it's mild and she realises all that paranoia was for nothing.

It’s very contagious so if you live under the same roof as someone who is +ve, it is unlikely that you won’t get it

That's not really true. Whilst around a third of spouses will contract it from a positive partner, the figure is around 20% for other household members. So 80% won't get it from positive household members, that figure is much lower if they're asymptomatic.
No one I know who has had covid has passed it on to those they live with, so it's not certainly the daughter as some are saying.

@Portosantamaria

Younger people can have it and be completely asymptomatic and/or not have any of the 3 main symptoms that would trigger a test. If her 21 year old daughter is going out to work, she has probably brought it home. When we had it in March, the children (teenagers) just had sore throats and felt very tired, my husband and I had the more classical symptoms. It’s why they are making health care workers like myself do lateral flow tests twice a week. It’s possible we could have it again and not be aware of it. It’s very contagious so if you live under the same roof as someone who is +ve, it is unlikely that you won’t get it (unless you confine them to one room with own bathroom which they don’t leave for 10 days.)

It's both really contagious and really not contagious. 70% of people don't pass it on to anybody, 10% pass it on to one person and the remaining 20% are responsible for 80% of the spread.

Don't take any of these tests as reliable. I know of someone that has had 3 positive tests since last March which is supposed to be fucking Impossible. Apparently the error rate is high with some getting negative tests when they then find are positive and doctors bemused when the patient has classic CV symptoms

@QueenOfTheDoubleWide

I have just heard my SIL and BIL and both children have covid , so everyone in the household .

The adult children were asymptomatic, but they bought the virus home from work .

So far my SIL is the only one feeling really poorly . She has been in bed feeling really rough for a couple of days .

So why did she test and has her daughter been tested ?

All of us can only minimise the risk not eliminate it as obviously it is airborne and also can be picked up from surfaces as well .

[quote Unsure33]@QueenOfTheDoubleWide

I have just heard my SIL and BIL and both children have covid , so everyone in the household .

The adult children were asymptomatic, but they bought the virus home from work .

So far my SIL is the only one feeling really poorly . She has been in bed feeling really rough for a couple of days .[/quote]
Sorry to hear that - hope they are all ok

@Sunflowergirl1

False negatives are more common than false positives so how do you know she has not had it at some stage and been asymptomatic ? Some people keep on testing positive for weeks afterwards . As was reported by the young people who got stuck abroad until the tests came back negative.

@QueenOfTheDoubleWide

I hope so as well as I have already lost family members to covid .

I think they are on about day 4 or 5 ? So will see how they are over the weekend .

Thanks for all the answers! I thought she was being a bit paranoid about the showering and changing clothes! She and her dh are both positive, I don't know about the daughter yet.