Husband didn't get covid!!

[Riv12345]

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?

I've known a few get it and others in the household never did. I read something at the weekend which said that the majority of people,e that get it don't spread it, but for some reason there are "super spreaders" that just infect anyone they come into any sort of contact with. The reality is we don't really know.

I had it last year but only mild symptoms and DP did not get it at all—at least no symptoms. Colleague of DP got it badly and was hospitalised but until she was carted off to hospital was together with her husband and new baby who did not get it at all. Like all viruses not everyone gets it, and those who do get it with varying degrees of seriousness. Depends on the individual susceptibility, state of immune system, underlying conditions, microbiome etc. But statistically most ppl get mild symptoms or none, a fact that was at first emphasised by government and media but now is completely overlooked while the terror-mongering goes on and on.

This is my experience too. Can't believe I didn't get it. And we're in a new variant hot-spot. Not everyone including spouses got it in our family outbreak. I got tested at day 5 after last exposure and it was negative.

I definitely don't jump into a bush now to avoid someone on a pavement!

I've found the virus fascinating

DS1 visited his Dad one weekend last year, shared a house, car journey for 2 hours each way etc and he DS was the only one who left the weekend without Covid - out of 6 people.

4 weeks later - he develops symptoms and tests positive, having not left the house for several days..! Our conclusion is that either I brought it home from work, or his younger brother from school. No one else developed symptoms on the back of DS's positive test.

Pressed send too quick!

How did he end up avoiding in whilst in such close contact, then catch it with no known source of contact?! Weird

FIL got it. MIL didn’t. They didn’t isolate particularly, apart from separate beds.

I think there is a lot about Covid that we still don’t understand. I think a lot of it is down to genetics in terms of how badly it affects some people and following on from this I think some people are actually quite immune to it. It’s all very strange.

We watched a film called Songbird the other night, all very hypothetical and silly in many ways but it was set in 2023 where Covid had mutated into a more dangerous virus than it currently is and some people were immune to it and wearing yellow bracelets that allowed them to have a normal life- these were being sold on the black market. Of course it’s all made up but you do have to wonder if there might be some element of something in there somewhere!

I'm convinced I had it at the start of Feb last year. DH and I didn't SD, slept in the same bed, used the bathroom etc and apart from coming in one night and saying he felt really cold and tired, he didn't get it.

Oh don't report stuff like this OP.

It 'wasn't that bad', he didn't catch it.

just incase the daily mail and top politicians are readingIt's the worst zombie mutating virus that has ever known to man. No one has a chance against its variants, it's very transmissiable and deadly. No one is safe.

@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!!

Part of human evolution is that we wont all catch it, some will naturally be imune? if we all caught every infectious disease we wouldn't now exist? Also with it in circulation pre lockdown last march virtually the whole population would have caught it?

Dh caught it a couple of weeks ago 2 weeks after getting the vaccine. He stayed alone in the bedroom and en suite. Kids and I didn't get it. I'd been vaccinated about 10 days earlier, kids not.

Me and DH had it at New Year, DD lives with us didnt get any symptoms, we didnt bother trying to isolate within the house it was too late by the time we realised, she had already been exposed, we sat around chatting and eating Xmas dinner together when DH was in the contagious stage. I got it around the 29th my symptoms started but DD never had any.

My partner had it last year in August. We isolated together, shared a bed. I had an antibody test in November which was negative.

Forgot to say..my friend got it and the week before she showed any symptoms she had been sleeping in same bed as husband...kissed him every day and err....they had been intimate a couple of times as well. She never got it or if so never had any symptoms at all.

@Ishbam

No never smoked in his life

We will one day find out what increases the chances of someone catching it. DP brought it home from a student at school (in whilst waiting for test result, other staff in contact with child and 4 students also tested postive). 1 teenager DD caught it and felt like crap, 1 didn't. Both are asthmatic and had similar levels of contact with their dad. I caught it from him and also felt like crap; DP has lost nearly 2 stone (was a healthy weight, did park runs etc, no smoking, occassional drink), spent 2 weeks at home with me carrying him to the toilet and washing him, then spent 2 days in hospital as his sats hit the low 80s. Back home now and still an absolute shell who can barely function. Ill DD still has an upset stomach (which is how she started until the coughing and fever) and I haven't been this tired ever in my life. A member of staff who was with DP and the child in question all day tested positive but barely had a sniffle.

I don't doubt that Elboa is dangerous, but it didn't wipe out the whole of the Congo. Just as the plague didn't kill off the whole of London. Some people lived well with HIV before anti-retrovirals. Some of the statements made by people wanting exact answers makes me wonder if they've lived in a bubble and have never pondered on anything, especially health matters before.

There's some interesting research happening in India as to why Covid is spreading in Europe more than India/Asia etc. We know a lot about T Cells and immunity already, which explains individual infections.

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The antibody tests aren't 100% reliable, maybe have another one?

The human immune system is incredibly complex and there will be some people that are just naturally immune - maybe through cell-mediated immunity, not via antibodies.

My 17y old was sent home from school 5 times last year when bubbles burst etc - including sitting next to his best mate for weeks at school who then tested positive, spending all weekend working at his other mate's Dad's farm just before that entire family tested positive (and were quite ill with it) and plating in a football team where almost all of the boys tested positive and he didn't, even though they wer all high-fiving etc the weekend before. He has had 4 covid tests (via school) all of which came back negative. He wears a mask, but is terrible with hand hygiene etc. I am always having to remind him. I do wonder if he is naturally immune - or maybe had it early on asymptomatically. He did get sent home from school with a mild sniffle the week before the schools first closed last March.

@Riv12345

Which pharmacy?

I would quite like an antibody test?

Is it a finger prick test?

@OverTheRainbow88

Superdrug online we got it from
But I think Lloyds pharmacy do them too
Roughly the same price

There's a lot of small studies being done worldwide on t cells at the moment that have found many people with no exposure to sars Cov 2 have t cell immunity. They've even tested old blood samples from years ago and found the same which suggests it may actually not be a novel virus at all.
It would certainly explain why almost 80% of people living with someone with covid do not get it. I've personally been exposed 4 times, all my other colleagues caught it but I never have despite being in a high risk close contact job. So either huge numbers of us are immune or its not as highly infectious as we're lead to believe.

I know of a few families where one person got covid and the others didn't. Covid is meant to be really contagious, BUT in some instances it seems Super choosy about who it infects.
I've heard that some blood groups/ previous viral illness/swine flu in the past may have some kind of effect on immunity, but IDK.

We used TestingForAll as it was a bit cheaper.

@TryingNotToPanicOverCovid

Wow what a find, that is nearly half what we paid.