Self isolating.. then, another fami,y member tests positive...advice needed please

[Artyfarty555]

Hi, my teenage son has had a positive test..8 days ago so my husband and l have been self isolating...due to finish tomorrow.
But husband has tested positive too, after feeling unwell. So another 10 days for me and him.
My question is...does my son need to complete another 10 days of isolation too? Or is he allowed out as he has immunity after already having it and self isolated for 10 days.

I cant work out how they can be!!

It’s risks vs benefits. People living in close contact together in a house are most likely to catch it from each other at around the same time. If you haven’t got symptoms by day 10 then you’re unlikely to. So it’s low risk.

However it’s not 100%. Theoretically you could start symptoms on day 11 or 12. But if you did develop symptoms now (or were asymptomatic) you will be socially distancing and wearing a face covering anyway so that lowers the risk of passing it on to someone outside your household even more.

So overall it’s a very low risk and pragmatic approach. The alternative would be people isolating for weeks or even months which would be unworkable.

It’s risks vs benefits. People living in close contact together in a house are most likely to catch it from each other at around the same time. If you haven’t got symptoms by day 10 then you’re unlikely to. So it’s low risk.

However it’s not 100%. Theoretically you could start symptoms on day 11 or 12

This. It happened within my family recently. Person A tested positive, person B and C showed symptoms at days 7 and 9. Person D was told they could continue as normal from day 11 and employer told them to return to work if they wanted to be paid. Person D started symptoms around day 15 and subsequently tested positive, havinb presumably caught it from B or C.

I find these rules so confusing.

When you read it sounds like 10 days after positive test (or symptoms) person A can stop isolating as long as they no longer have a temperature.

Well before Christmas my mum and her DH tested positive. They have two DS, one tested positive a day later and the other never tested positive at all. The one who tested positive had a tickly cough and was fine the next day.

Two weeks after the last positive test, mum and her DH are getting sicker and sicker. Unable to cook, clean, get out of bed. I want to go and get the boys who have basically had no parents for two weeks and was told, categorically, by the NHS that they were still in isolation and I was not to go and get them. By this point their parents temp had subsided, and the boys had done more than 10 days in isolation.

The caller said that the parents could still spread it to the child who hadn't had it an hour before I picked him up.

I got a friend to speak to her DH who is a paramedic (because at this point I thought parents might get taken to hospital) and he said if that happened boys would be given a rapid test and then I would have to send my kids away and go into 10 days isolation with the boys.

But I can't find this guidance anywhere online? Either way, the helpline person made me feel like the worst person in the world for even considering it, but I'm not sure how it's any different from ops situation (i.e they have a confirmed case in the household and are asking if the other people can come out of isolation).

Person D started symptoms around day 15 and subsequently tested positive, havinb presumably caught it from B or C.

As it takes on average 5 days for symptoms to show it’s also possible that person D caught it from going to work on day 11. If D did catch it from household that late on, which is also possible, they are in the minority. There’s no perfect way!

Sounds complicated WeLike, hope you’re all ok.