How likely am I to get Covid from DS if I’m vaccinated.

[fireflylanegirls]

I’m having my Covid vaccine tomorrow.

I’m group 6 due to a BMI of 40.1

I’m due back to work in 3 weeks and I’m office based.

By the time I’m back at work I’ll have some protection should I catch Covid.

My worry is that my son is starting nursery on Monday.
He’s only going to be going 3 full days but for the next 3 weeks he’s doing settling in days.

He’s 13 months.

The nursery haven’t had a confirmed Covid case since November but I’m starting to panic that now schools are back cases will go up.

I won’t be protected by the vaccine should he transmit the virus to me.

I can’t delay my start date with work as I’ve already done this to accommodate (twice)
and I can’t send my son to nursery in 3 weeks for full days without any settling in sessions.

He’s a lockdown baby and he’s hardly seen anyone.

I’m really anxious and don’t know what to do for the best.

@LIZS

Pleased to hear you have gp support and are committed to returning to work now. Would it help to think about the practicalities rather than fret about your perceived risks? Focus on what you can control.

@LIZS

I don’t feel like I can control anything.

In an ideal world it would be 6 weeks until I return to work, 3 weeks until my son goes to nursery.

At least then the vaccine would be offering me some protection and I’d feel happier about it all.

But that’s not going to happen.

But you can control your hygiene measures, how you manage your workspace, maintain distance etc. Also think about drop off/pick up and journey. Even when you are vaccinated there will be another focus for your anxieties.

"what morecambe people say to reassure that hasn't already been said to you many times before?"

@Bordois don't bring Morecambe into this

@LIZS

But you can control your hygiene measures, how you manage your workspace, maintain distance etc. Also think about drop off/pick up and journey. Even when you are vaccinated there will be another focus for your anxieties.

@LIZS

I haven’t been into “real world” for the last year and I’m worried I’m going to get it all wrong and catch Covid anyway.

Surely you can feel your way during the settling in process. Did you speak to your manager yet ti find out how the office environment now works? Arrange to visit?

@LIZS

Surely you can feel your way during the settling in process. Did you speak to your manager yet ti find out how the office environment now works? Arrange to visit?

@LIZS

I don’t get to go to my sons settling in sessions.

I don’t want to visit work. I’m dreading going back so don’t want to go in any sooner than I have to.

My manager has arranged for the companies pointed Covid health and safety manger to call
me before my return.

Who will drop off or pick up? Use that time to prepare, make the journey to the office even if you do not visit.

@LIZS

Who will drop off or pick up? Use that time to prepare, make the journey to the office even if you do not visit.

@LIZS

For his settling in session I will
Drop off and pick up.

When I’m back in the office I will drop off DH will pick up.

Just wanted to reiterate that it’s fine to seek reassurance more than once. My friend in real life must be a saint because if something is on my mind and I cannot shake it, she will listen again and reassure me again. Anxiety doesn’t just disappear.

When you work in an office you can get asymptomatic Covid tests twice weekly. You can pick them up, they gave me two packs (14 tests). The staff in your son’s nursery will also get them.

@AdriannaP

When you work in an office you can get asymptomatic Covid tests twice weekly. You can pick them up, they gave me two packs (14 tests). The staff in your son’s nursery will also get them.

@AdriannaP

Get them from where?

Yes either employer can arrange it or there may be an asymptomatic testing venue locally.

DS is 15 months and has been at nursery on and off throughout. I was vaccinated last week. There have been cases at his nursery but always isolated and dealt with well. DS hasn't had it and neither have we.

@Mylittlesandwich

DS is 15 months and has been at nursery on and off throughout. I was vaccinated last week. There have been cases at his nursery but always isolated and dealt with well. DS hasn't had it and neither have we.

@Mylittlesandwich

Thank you.

Just makes me wonder how they isolate it since babies don’t distance.

Great you or him haven’t caught it though.

@fireflylanegirls your employer should get them.
www.gov.uk/get-workplace-coronavirus-tests?priority-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae

You might also be able to get some yourself from a local test site
www.gov.uk/find-covid-19-lateral-flow-test-site

@fireflylanegirls at my daughter’s school one teacher had covid and we had to isolate her. She didn’t have it and I didn’t either (we both got tested). Honestly your son is very unlikely to get it at nursery especially as numbers are going down and vaccine take up going up.

You can order covid tests on gov.uk. It arrived to mine the next day. Test kit contains 7 tests. It’s worth it to ease your mind. 😊

@fireflylanegirls so they don't socially distance but staff now stay with their own age group and rooms. DS was identified as a close contact of someone who had covid but he had no symptoms so either didn't have it or was asymptotic. Nobody else developed symptoms during our isolation period either.
All parents and older children collecting a nursery age child wear masks and don't come into close contact with anyone other than a actually handing over a child. Any longer conversation required about your child are done over the phone. If it has to be done in person you'll be asked to wear a mask.

[quote AdriannaP]@fireflylanegirls your employer should get them.
www.gov.uk/get-workplace-coronavirus-tests?priority-taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae

You might also be able to get some yourself from a local test site
www.gov.uk/find-covid-19-lateral-flow-test-site[/quote]
@AdriannaP

Oh wow. I did not know this.

I’ve checked for my local area and it seems they are offering these to nurseries too.

I’m going to contact mine to see if this is something the staff do.

@Vallmo47

You can order covid tests on gov.uk. It arrived to mine the next day. Test kit contains 7 tests. It’s worth it to ease your mind. 😊

@Vallmo47

Is that the lateral flow ones?

@fireflylanegirls I would assume they do. In my area all schools test all staff twice weekly.

Firstly, let's just get out of the way the implications of your BMI - it puts you at elevated risk IF you catch covid, but that risk is still relatively small.

Then you have to consider the number of cases in your area - at the moment across most of the country, the chances of another kid in the nursery having covid is quite small.

Then consider that kids of that age are not believed to transmit the virus easily to each other, or to adults.

Finally, it's only for a week - after that you'll have had 10 days since your vaccine and THAT is enough to massively reduce your risk of serious illness.

If after all that you're still anxious, then can you not hold off nursery for one week?

Even if he saw 12 different people every day, that’s 36 people a week. The chances of one of those 36 being one of the 120 out of 100,000 or whatever your local rates are are minute.

I work in a preschool, 40 children on the books, 8 staff members. Since we reopened last June, we’ve had just one covid case, just one. A staff member caught it from their parent, who caught it from their work. The bubble they were in was asked to isolate, but no one caught it.
So - in the last 10 months, 48 families, just one confirmed covid case.
Hope that eases your mind slightly.

You won’t have any protection from the vaccine until 3 weeks after you gave it, so if your DS catches it before then you have the same chances as if you weren’t vaccinated.