Where'd he catch it??

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Dh has been at home for over a week, only popped out to one click and collect place. We have had no-one round and obeyed the rules. There were 17 cases here last week. He's had his first jab.

Now he's tested positive. I wfh and all groceries delivered. Only go for walk to exercise. One teen never goes out(and been on school holiday for two weeks) the other works outdoors. We are all shut in for ten days. I haven't had to do this yet and I am hating it. Second day and I want to scream. How do people shield?? Sorry, rant over.

Where’d he catch it? = popped out to one click and collect place. Sucks but that appears to be your answer.

You have two teenagers who do go out of the house. Your school age DS could have passed it on to DH. More likely than a quick click and connect.

Over a week - how many days exactly?
The incubation period can be up to 14 days so could have been picked up in the previous week.

Covid has a 14 day incubation period, you say he's been home for over a week, what was he doing before hand? He could have picked it up two weeks ago.

Hopefully the vaccine will do its job and he'll only have mild symptoms and be better really soon.

Took a week for my first symptom to appear after being in contact with a positive case.
You’ve done well to have got so far and not needed to isolate. I hope he isn’t too poorly with it.

Your teen could have picked it up last day of school, been incubating for say 7 days then been asymptomatic, your dh could have picked it up a couple of days later then been incubating it till now.

Is it a lateral flow test on an asymptomatic case? Get a PCR to check, because LFTs can produce false positives especially if he had drunk or eaten shortly before testing! But assume positive until proven otherwise! Hopefully as he's had his jab he won't feel too bad at all if it really is positive.

It’s really shit but you can do this isolation period, we’ve all done much longer. The same thing that makes it an unbearable thought is the same thing that tells us we can do it.

Your DH had been unlucky, it doesn’t take much to catch it if you’re in the vicinity of someone infected and it’s a pure numbers game whether you dodge it or not (even with precautions).

Be aware of symptoms he might displaying and if anyone else seems ill and don’t hesitate to call for proper medical advice if you’re even the slightest bit concerned, even if that means multiple calls. Early intervention can make a massive difference although hopefully his illness is buffered by the vaccination.

Probably a false positive if he doesn't have symptoms !

He does have symptoms, but mild. The rest of us don't feel great but all tested negative. We all had the PCR test.

Were the click and collect items, along with all the grocery shopping washed/wiped down?

@Elouera

Were the click and collect items, along with all the grocery shopping washed/wiped down?

People don't catch Covid from groceries, whatever the anxious would have us believe.

He probably caught it over a week ago then. As others said it can take 14 days to incubate.

People don't catch Covid from groceries, whatever the anxious would have us believe. @RaspberryCoulis

Very bold statement! You can certainly catch COVID from surfaces, which is why anyone who is shielding/severely at risk of COVID is advised to wipe down packages etc. For the general population, the chances of getting ill are very very unlikely due to the low level of exposure.

Hope your DH recovers quickly OP! I agree that with two teens out the house (if one is working outside presumably he's chatting to people?) it could've been brought into the household that way.

@oldegg123 this advice has now been changed

nypost.com/2021/04/05/low-risk-of-catching-covid-from-surfaces-new-cdc-guidelines/

As the incubation period is up to 14 days, you need to look back 14 days before your DH developing symptoms in order to work out how he might have caught it. Perhaps your teen picked it up at school but was asymptomatic himself. Does your DC who works outdoors travel in the same vehicle as someone else?

Anyone I've known to have Covid which is only a few.. They haven't started to symptoms until about a week later after coming I to contact with someone who has tested positive. So he could have caught it a week or so ago.

My DH tested positive on Tuesday, he'd had vaccine 18 days before that. The only place he'd been was work for a few hours.
Me and DS are negative at the moment (I had vaccine 8 weeks ago) and are doing LFTs every 2 days.
We have just under a weeks isolating left. I work at a non-essential retailer, its rubbish timing and really missing my daily walk

I also vote for the incubation period over 7 days (especially since OP's DH is vaccinated and is only having mild symptoms).

My DS didn't get symptoms until 13 days after his dad and 10 days after me. We had to extend isolation. Seems more likely your DH caught it over a week ago

Olive that would be because presumably living together you can catch at any point before symptoms till say 10d in.
If its out of the house then maybe more likely to be the average of 5d.

The rest of us don't feel great but all tested negative. We all had the PCR test

This doesn't mean you were all negative X days ago when your DP could have caught it from one of you. There are lots of ways it could have been caught.

Could he be having an affair OP?

How long since his vaccine? Hopefully it's long enough that it will have some effect.

@NVision

Could he be having an affair OP?

Wtf? Ill-advised joke I hope, rather than serious suggestion.