Friend's husband has Covid - should I spend time with her?

[CodLoverOil]

My friend lives several hours away and is planning to visit. Her husband has now tested positive for covid. She's confident that her home tests are negative. She's been a little slack in adhering to covid guidelines throughout, and I don't 100% trust her testing.

I'm 36 weeks pregnant and have had one vaccine. I feel the media are telling me to be 'careful'. Is spending time with her under these circumstances risky? She's not planning to stay over, and only talking about having a drink at home and meal out.

Absolutely not, she shouldn’t be leaving her house. My son is positive at the moment, I’m negative for now on lateral flow but would I go and spent time with a pregnant lady? Absolutely not, she is completely irresponsible and you need to put yourself and baby first and refuse to see her

Re lateral flows my son was negative Tuesday morning, but positive Tuesday evening. There’s obviously a point where you’re still negative so maybe people tested too early. Everyone I know who tested positive did so on lateral flow beforehand. My sons positive now and I’m under no illusion that just because today’s lateral flow is negative it doesn’t mean tomorrow’s will be

I'm sorry but this has to either be a joke or some ridiculous planted question to remind people how daft some folk are and why we can't trust people to make the right decisions to keep themselves safe.

If it's neither OP, give your head a wobble and do not see this woman - she's not a friend. You're heavily pregnant, do you really want to put yourself and your baby at risk? Not to mention if you deliver early - you'll be putting the whole maternity ward at risk.

She can not leave her house unless it's already been 10 days since her husband tested positive?

@CodLoverOil

Wow, ok. This was a genuine question. She's telling me lots about taking part in studies that allow her out for 'essential' reasons, and that she only has to be isolating for 7 days, which will be over by the time she wants to come. (I agree, going out at all even for 'essentials' isn't isolating, but anyway). There's been lots of this rule-interpreting going on with her over the last 18 month's, so I'm a bit 🤔

Advice re vaccinating, isolating, vulnerability during my pregnancies (this is my second in covid times) has been maddingly inconsistent, so I'm just not sure what to think at the moment. Thanks for putting me right, everyone.

This study doesn’t include households members because it’s considered to be too high risk.