School cases - quick straw poll

[hopeishere]

For those of you who had a child identified as a "close contact", did your child / many in the class go on to test positive?

You can probably guess what the phone call I've just taken was about!!

What a strange question. THe answer is private. Schools don't have to tell parents that other cases have developed. Or who, or where they were sitting.

I work in a secondary school and I can tell you that we've had a number of bubbles sent home, and subsequently were told of other pupils in the same bubble having developed Covid and tested positive, as well as siblings and parents.

Unless you personally know every family in the school, you won't be told by the school.

Daughters just gone back (y7) - 1 case took out 25 kids, no further cases (original case was a contact through seating plan, not friend). 3 cases in Y8, all close friends.

At my son’s preschool it’s never spread beyond one child (though of course all close contacts sent to isolate for 10 days). It’s quite fascinating how some people spread it and some don’t.. do other viruses work like that? Admit to complete ignorance!

The cases I speak of is this new Delta variant. Previously before christmas my dd had to isolate a couple of times & didn't catch it.