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Husband didn't get covid!!

77 replies

Riv12345 · 11/02/2021 23:29

Hi guys

I tested positive for covid just after Christmas.
Husband had to self isolate with me obviously.
I wasn't too bad to be honest.
I stayed downstairs with him etc
He had no symptoms.
A couple of weeks ago he kept saying I reacon I have had it as I was near you etc
He decided to pay for an antibody test £69 from a well know pharmacy.

It came back negative for antibodies.
He can not believe it.
Any suggestions?

OP posts:
Aroundtheworldin80moves · 11/02/2021 23:32

Not everyone who comes into contact will get it. As with every other virus.

worried3012 · 11/02/2021 23:33

Yeah it is apparently 50% of a household who get it

One member in my 4 person household got it and isolated as best they could in the house and no one else got it

SpringtimeBluebells · 11/02/2021 23:37

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Not everyone who comes into contact will get it. As with every other virus.
This.....some people just don't get it even when in close contact. Some people get it bad, some medium, some mild and others don't get it at all....
CovidCraziness · 11/02/2021 23:41

I find it all really weird! I thought it was meant to be oh so contagious that even to walk past someone with it, you'd catch it. But living with someone positive, sleeping with them, breathing on them all day - and they don't catch it!? How is that? Confused!! Confused

PurpleDaisies · 11/02/2021 23:41

Antibody tests aren’t foolproof. As others have said, he wasn’t guaranteed to get it anyway.

worried3012 · 11/02/2021 23:52

@CovidCraziness

I find it all really weird! I thought it was meant to be oh so contagious that even to walk past someone with it, you'd catch it. But living with someone positive, sleeping with them, breathing on them all day - and they don't catch it!? How is that? Confused!! Confused
Yes I found this odd that no one got it, except my dad who would have been contagious at Christmas before showing symptoms. We share the same bathroom, kitchen, doors etc, I shared a car with him, my mum slept alongside him and not one of us got it.
Original poster
Riv12345 · 12/02/2021 00:30

Thanks for your replies
I agree it's just so strange 🤷‍♀️

OP posts:
Beamur · 12/02/2021 00:33

DD had it at Christmas. No one else caught it. She had very mild symptoms and no coughing.

Shopaholic100 · 12/02/2021 00:34

In my experience everyone who’s caught it since the beginning of this year have infected everyone in the family and they seem to have had it a lot worse.

2020BogOff · 12/02/2021 04:53

DH had it with symptoms and tested positive. We never SD from each other, same bedroom, bathroom etc with him coughing lots and I never got it. Tested twice and negative each time. I guess I have natural immunity.

StarCat2020 · 12/02/2021 04:59

I guess I have natural immunity
Maybe you already had it but asymptomatically so you never had any reason to get tested??

I agree it is interesting.

TryingNotToPanicOverCovid · 12/02/2021 05:03

I must have been one of those rare ones that caught it outside walking (or from delivered supermarket groceries but think thats unlikely.)

My husband and kids didnt catch it and i have no idea how. Seems crazy I caught it from hardly any contact and they didn't catch it from close contact.

I wondered if the kids had had it asymptomatically .

Youd think in OPs case if they had had it befire hence immune response it would show up in antibodies.

There is so much we don't know isnt there.

StarCat2020 · 12/02/2021 05:06

I wondered if the kids had had it asymptomatically
It may be that they gave it to you....

TryingNotToPanicOverCovid · 12/02/2021 05:10

Theyd been out less than I had because of no school (we didn't send them for Boris' one day in Jan) and I had it a few weeks ago. I'd been out walking everyday, sometimes with my kids. I think I was probably more likely at height of other adults. Kids haven't been near other kids in months 😔.

But normally when schools open absolutely think thats the main cause of transmission. As they'd been in school last year I thought maybe theyd3 had it. But then if they'dnot passed it on then that makes no sense too.

Seems bizarre you can catch it in the community but not everyone in the house gets it!

StarCat2020 · 12/02/2021 05:16

Seems bizarre you can catch it in the community but not everyone in the house gets it!
It is definitely interesting.

Then again during Xmas 1999 / 2000 both my parents had flu (I was 20 and still lived at home).

It was only the second time my Dad had been to the doctor in my lifetime (first time was chicken pox when I was four).

They were so ill and yet I didn't get it.

Ishbam · 12/02/2021 05:43

Is he a smoker?

FourDecades · 12/02/2021 06:06

I tested positive last May. Completely asymptomatic. Have had antibody test a couple of times and l haven't produced any immunity.

Have now had first vaccination so hope I'm now getting some antibodies!

Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 12/02/2021 06:11

Having no antibodies, just means he has no antibodies surely, it is not very conclusive.

Bluntness100 · 12/02/2021 06:11

It’s a fifty fifty if others get it, as already said

For the poster who said they got it outside, it’s more likely your kids passed it to you. Do they see other kids?

TryingNotToPanicOverCovid · 12/02/2021 06:20

No my kids do not see other kids! (How!?)
We've been extremely careful all through so school has been my fear factor but last day kids were in school was before xmas.

Mine are homeschooling and I've been walking everyday. Sometimes took a kid with me and that's it! Its very unlikely but (obviously) does happen. My test and trace callers each said they know of a few a day this time who are similar. I'm lucky it was relatively mild though (maybe low viral load?)

2020BogOff · 12/02/2021 06:28

@StarCat2020

I guess I have natural immunity Maybe you already had it but asymptomatically so you never had any reason to get tested??

I agree it is interesting.

That is a possibility but I have been WFH since last March, have tesco deliveries, only went out a few times in the height of summer when the restrictions and infection rates were low.
Bythemillpond · 12/02/2021 06:44

Maybe he already had it. We all had it in 2019. I doubt our antibodies would show up anything now but we could still have immunity
I know a group of students who live together. All bar one of the household tested positive for Covid despite every effort to infect the one person who never got it. (They didn’t want to isolate twice).
An alternative suggestion is maybe some people are immune naturally

JS87 · 12/02/2021 07:25

He probably fought it off before he made any antibodies- cross reactive T cell immunity or innate immunity.

DinosaurDiana · 12/02/2021 07:26

It’s not strange at all.

Kroptopbelly · 12/02/2021 07:33

It’s weird for sure.
I’ve worked in the eye of the storm since the beginning, nearly a year, day in day out, 12 sometimes 14 hours and haven’t got it.
I am meticulous about infection prevention but still, it’s unbelievable!

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