Last week my toddler had a horrible cough and I had a light tickly cough.
Got PCR's and toddler and DH tested negative.
Both my parents tested negative (were with them for an extended period of time). I tested positive and we are all isolating.
In the meantime toddler's cough isn't going away and temp has spiked a couple of times so I have contacted the GP for an appointment. On the phone I obviously mentioned we were still isolating due to my positive and the nurse said it was most likely a false negative pcr for my DH and toddler if I had a positive.
It's baffled me a bit as everyone I was in very close contact with is a negative, they can't all be false surely? I've seen threads on here where it was quite common for only some of the household to receive a positive. Are the PCR's that unreliable?