How has my 1 year old got coronavirus?

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My 1 year old has covid, but no one else does. We have been at home all year, haven't even been shopping. Barely go for walks.

How could he have caught it 😢

Are you sure one of you hasn't been asymptomatic? Or someone in the house has a false negative test, or his is a false positive?

Even if we was asymptomatic, where could we of caught it? (I suppose it could of been on our shopping)

I'm sure his result is right because he had little cough and has been grumpy for a few days. He was only tested because he had a hospital appointment upcoming.

Just really shocked and it shows me how easy this virus is spreading.

Have you all been tested? Yes, it proves it’s very contagious.

You have been shopping, do you, your partner work outside the home? Or if wfh had a meeting you had to attend? Have you been out for exercise? Have you met up with someone accidental on your walk? One of you could be asymptomatic. Could the test be a false positive? Can you all be tested?

I have actually had 3 tests in 1 week

1- I am in South African variant postcode
2- for the hospital stay with my DS
3- the family tested when he had a positive result as all of us have been coughing

All were negative. As were DP and DD.

@Chloemol DP working from home all year. None of us have left the house at all except short walks with DS in the buggy to get him to sleep.
Shopping delivered.

We have been waiting this hospital appointment for my DS which is why we have been so careful.

False negatives are more common than false positives, so I’d probably assume you do have it if you all have symptoms.

If you’ve had deliveries then you’ll have had people come to the door and touched the same objects/surfaces so it is possible.

Has your dd been at school?

No she has been at home all year.

Maybe picked it up during hospital stay and were given a false-negative result?

From shopping items?

The risk of surface transmission is low but it is now zero.

It is possible that the 1 year old was the only one to get covid since at this age children still tend to chew and lick everything they can get hold of. There might have been minor virus debris on deliveries, food packaging or bags. It would not have been enough to infect adults/older children via hand to face transmission but if the one year old puts the contaminated item in his mouth, he is much more likely to get infected.

Delivery men breathing on you.

@stampsurprise the nurse came to our doorstep to swab us so the appointment was cancelled because of the result.

I think it must be the shopping. The delivery man would of infected me not him, and also we both had masks on.

I had just stopped wiping over my shopping as well 😩

Have you been out for a walk in the last couple of weeks? If so, did you totally socially distance from everyone else, sanitize hands after touching say the button at a crossing, gate before you touched buggy, held hands, touched the front door etc.

Obviously with the shopping, it could have been anyone else in the supply chain, shelf stacker or packer.

It's scary how easily it can spread. Hope he's ok.

@ifonly4 I am really annoying my family by being over the top with hygiene. I won't even touch the crossing buttons! I wash clothes when we come in, have a place for shoes and also clean the floor at the door regularly.

I feel the shopping is the only possibility.

Luckily my son is ok, and hopefully his appointment will go ahead when he is better

Do you have anyone else in your bubble?

Have you had anyone in your house doing work?

It does seem odd if not. I’ve never worried too much about deliveries, but maybe I should?

@wintertravel1980

The risk of surface transmission is low but it is now zero.

It is possible that the 1 year old was the only one to get covid since at this age children still tend to chew and lick everything they can get hold of. There might have been minor virus debris on deliveries, food packaging or bags. It would not have been enough to infect adults/older children via hand to face transmission but if the one year old puts the contaminated item in his mouth, he is much more likely to get infected.

This.

No one in my bubble since beginning of January. No one in my house at all. Lots of deliveries from Amazon, that are left at my doors and I only open after they are back in their van. I open and throw the boxes away and sanitize where they have touched. And my hands of course.

It's so strange.

@RedMarauder completely agree, must be this

whats stranger is that you haven't caught the virus if its so contagious, and no one else in your household has caught the virus.

My DC caught HFM in the first lockdown, (didn't leave house, shopping delivered etc.) I wiped all shopping down, but thought it must have been the little, kids yogurt pots - the only thing they touched to eat. I know it's not Covid, and different transmission rate etc. But it surprised me!

@ivykaty44 this is what I'm thinking as well. Although I'm not out the risk yet. I suppose I could come down with it any day.

@crazyola it's so weird isn't it!

I wouldn't rule out the post either. Royal Mail is rife with the virus at the moment.

It wouldn't take much for a bit of infected post to come through the letterbox, hit something on the floor, for a mobile toddler to touch/pick up, even if you've quarantined the post.

I know of a care home with extremely clinically vulnerable residents. The residents have been isolated in their rooms with staff doing full changes of PPE and hygiene protocols between rooms and yet an asymptomatic staff member managed to spread it round the entire home. Yet someone else I know spent two hours in an enclosed car (not wearing masks) with someone who fell ill the next day yet didn't contract it. This was all when the new SE strain was starting to make waves so shows the difference between the contagion levels.

If you are all coughing you very likely all have it. Afterall it's unlikely you all caught something else. Tests are unreliable.

We all managed to get ?covid? In apr. Despite not going anywhere for weeks. But dc did have a runny nose cough and vomit thing very early march. But had runny nose and not all 3 symptoms.
However knowing now incubation is generally shorter it does seem more likely we got it from a food del about 4 days earlier. Outside but probably about 1m away no masks etc. Dp got ill then me within 24h. Then the kids got ill. And dc2 seemed to get ill again.
The guy and us likely breathing heavily moving the crates.