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.

@NVision

Could he be having an affair OP?

🤣🤣🤣🤣 so MN this question.

When would he be conducting this affair if he has only left the house for a click and collect order? Wouldn't exactly be a passionate one would it as he went out for 30 mins collected his order, saw the mistress and then back home with the shopping.

@NVision

Could he be having an affair OP?

This is the most MN post I’ve seen in a while.

You answered your own question. Click and collect, or your walks, anywhere really.

I feel for you op! We are also in isolation for ten days. My ds caught it meeting a friend outdoors who has had both vaccine doses. We were all doing lateral flow tests every couple of days up to then so we know that’s where he got it.
It’s so hard to know where it’s been caught. I am wondering whether ds actually gave it to the friend rather than the other way round and he just didn’t have enough viral load for it to be detected when he did the tests.
I’m nervously hoping I don’t get it. So far I’m negative as the rest of the family are. Two days since the positive test result for him.

It's not Covid, but I have a cold. Only places I've been this week are Next click collect, with someone's children running around me, and two country walks - DH opened gates and I put sanitizer on his hands. DH hasn't been into work and DD been at home recovering from operation. I've still caught something.

@oldegg123

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.

Actually unless someone spits on a surface to contaminate it and you touch it and put your finger in your mouth or eye etc, then it's extremely unlikely.

The whole formites thing was entirely down to Whitty who has always had a bee in his bonnet about it. Obviously initially we had to take every precaution and there was research demonstrating covid lasting a long time on certain surfaces. But more recent research has demonstrated that it is extremely difficult to obtain viable virus FROM a contaminated surface. That's not to say that it can't happen, but it's now thought to be a very minor factor in covid transmission.

Most likely caught it from one of your kids. Incubation period is 10 days. Even your teen who goes to school could have caught it last day or so of the school term and passed it to your DH anytime within that 10 day window. Then it can take up to another 10 days for your DH to become ill with it.
Hope he feels well soon

Maybe he got it when he went for the vaccination or was that longer ago?

Our household hasn't had to isolate either, I don't think it's that uncommon.

@starfish4

It's not Covid, but I have a cold. Only places I've been this week are Next click collect, with someone's children running around me, and two country walks - DH opened gates and I put sanitizer on his hands. DH hasn't been into work and DD been at home recovering from operation. I've still caught something.

How do you know it's only a cold? My dh had a sniffle and coughed a couple of times.

[quote unchienandalusia]@oldegg123 this advice has now been changed

nypost.com/2021/04/05/low-risk-of-catching-covid-from-surfaces-new-cdc-guidelines/[/quote]
From your article - “It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,” the revised guidance states.

This is exactly what I said? The article doesn't contradict anything in my post.

Actually unless someone spits on a surface to contaminate it and you touch it and put your finger in your mouth or eye etc, then it's extremely unlikely.

The whole formites thing was entirely down to Whitty who has always had a bee in his bonnet about it. Obviously initially we had to take every precaution and there was research demonstrating covid lasting a long time on certain surfaces. But more recent research has demonstrated that it is extremely difficult to obtain viable virus FROM a contaminated surface. That's not to say that it can't happen, but it's now thought to be a very minor factor in covid transmission.

@bookworm1632

As I've said to PP, I agree the risk is super low, but it was in response to a poster who stated it wasn't possible to catch COVID this way. For the average person it's not something to worry about, but CEV populations are still advised to take extra precautions.

One of your teens caught it four weeks ago. Incubated for two weeks and then was asymptomatic. Your DH caught it from your teen and incubated it for another two weeks.

This scenario is far more likely than fomite transmission (now estimated to be around 1 in 10000 of cases) or outdoor transmission (similar odds).

Kids from school
Kids meeting friends and not telling you
Handles as groceries handed over
Click and collect
Panting joggers running past
Any knob
False positive

I am starting to think he must have got it from our eldest who had an upset stomach a week or so ago. We now think that could have been her one symptom. Funny, now she's full of cold. Just shows you, all the measures and the virus still gets about.

Could be possible. did she do any LFTs through school? I wish antibody tests were more easily available, as my friend had a similar situation, had had both jabs, but still caught it, likely off children. But they'll never know, as nobody else in the family had symptoms and they can't get antiobody tests to know if any of them had had it. She says it's fine as they don't need to know, makes no difference, which is true - but out of curiosity I'd want to know, and out of interest for finding out how easily it transmits or what likely routes of transmission are. In her case, I'm also interested to know how she got it after being vaccinated, especially if it's from her children, as she thinks, who were totally asymptomatic and so very low virus amounts if so (she only thinks it's them because others in their school had it).

How long ago was his jab? could he have caught it there? I hope it will be enough to protect him.