Where did you catch it?

treedragon · 2021-07-25T08:42:15+00:00

Just curious to know where people may have caught coronavirus. Is it mainly from their kids bringing it home from school? If so why aren’t kids being vaccinated if they are a large cause of spread.

SilverGlitterBaubles · 25/07/2021 09:52

DD caught it in school. Very interested in this as have been thinking a lot lately how from cases that I know personally all came from schools, spread within households due to child case in school, teens attending parties, hospitals, care home. So perhaps being masked up and sanitised in the supermarket is not really something to get hysterical about after all.

Hophop26 · 25/07/2021 09:58

Schools were definitely spreading it around but all the people I know that have had it don’t have kids so they haven’t caught it from schools, I don’t know anyone with kids that has had it, even with the current rocketing infection rates where we are

Hophop26 · 25/07/2021 09:59

They have however worked in offices, been to pubs and supermarkets

Darbs76 · 25/07/2021 09:59

Mine was from my son who is in secondary school

honkytonkheroe · 25/07/2021 10:01

My sister caught it on a day out in London, a colleague caught it at Silverstone, a neighbour caught it at Wembley, my nephew caught it at a pub, my husband caught it at a business meeting.

MrsSkylerWhite · 25/07/2021 10:02

I don’t suppose many people know with certainty.

HugeAckmansWife · 25/07/2021 10:03

Surely in many cases you won't know. I'm a teacher and have been perfectly happy to go into whatever shops and venues that are open. I've been on buses and trains. My two kids have had their bubbles burst more than once. None of us have had it but if we did, I wouldn't have a clue where from. I also think there's an unhelpful idea out there that if you catch it you or someone else has done something 'wrong' - either been selfish or not careful enough.

KatherineOfGaunt · 25/07/2021 10:05

I think I had it last March and obviously I have no way for sure if knowing who I got it from. However,
the previous week I taught two siblings in a one-to-onesituation. I was face-to-face in a room with no external windows, less than a metre apart for 45 minutes with each. They went off with symptoms the next day and two days later I developed breathlessness and a cough. So I can only assume if they did have it and I did have it, then it was from them.

RoseRedRoseBlue · 25/07/2021 10:05

From my husband, who got it at work (Police). His shift colleagues started going down like skittles and I knew it was inevitable.

QueenStromba · 25/07/2021 10:08

Given how quickly my DH developed symptoms after I did, the place that makes the most sense is an empty beer garden on a fairly windy day from a member of staff bringing us drinks. The only other possibility is I picked it up in a fairly empty Homebase or Wickes, took 9 days to incubate it and my DH only took two days. Case rates were very low then though (they quadrupled in about a week).

Twoforthree · 25/07/2021 10:08

Definitely school. At least 11 staff got it. Don’t know the number of kids.

Toddlerteaplease · 25/07/2021 10:10

No idea. I had been on holiday on my own the week before. Or could have been from my student in the back of an ambulance taking a child to his local hospital. As she also had it.

OliveTree75 · 25/07/2021 10:10

DP caught it at work in a factory. We caught it from him. I work in a primary school. Lots of staff caught it at work.

Fastforwardtospring · 25/07/2021 10:10

DC brought it home from school, just tested positive yesterday on last day of isolation, quite poorly today, Covid can do one, with 4 of us in the house, any summer plans are out the window, if we are going to get it, I want it sooner rather later.

Moonlaserbearwolf · 25/07/2021 10:19

Amongst my friends and acquaintances it’s been mostly bars and nightclubs. The vast majority caught it in Feb/March 2020 in London before we really understood what we were dealing with. No testing available at the time, but lots of friends with antibodies a few months later. I know a few people who spread the virus after catching it at work (office) and a couple of school cases which spread to families.
I don’t know about secondary schools, but the primary schools in this area still haven’t seen many cases at all.

Labradabradorable · 25/07/2021 10:23

Maybe on a ski lift in France, but most likely in a French autoroute stop on my way home. It was crowded with people coming home from skiing in northern Italy. GP insisted I absolutely couldn’t have it as of not been to Wuhan or Lombardy. I knew from the symptoms it absolutely was Covid.

This was late February 2020. I was an early adopter.

SpringheelJack · 25/07/2021 10:23

DH caught it at work twice (healthcare setting). The last time, when we all had it, I think the kids picked it up at nursery - there was a confirmed case and nursery closed for a week. Their symptoms didn't actually start until the day after their isolation period ended though, so I'm not sure. We were only notified by nursery after a weekend of being out and about a lot (🙄) so it's possible one/all of us picked it up at museum or from friends!

Howshouldibehave · 25/07/2021 10:23

Obviously don’t know for certain, but the people I know who have had it, got it after close contact with positive cases at school.

I would like the option for my teens to have the vaccine. Hopefully, the government will change their minds on this soon.

Taciturn · 25/07/2021 10:23

Contrary to popular understanding children are not super spreaders. adc.bmj.com/content/105/7/618

Also these vaccines are still undergoing trials and are only emergency approved. WHO does not yet recommend vaccinating under 16s. Neither does EMA - same rules as here, only vulnerable.

Whatshouldicallme · 25/07/2021 10:46

@Taciturn

That article is from June 2020, based on much older versions of the virus and is really not very relevant now. You may not believe in vaccines for children, but data from the most recent wave indicated that schools and schoolchildren do significantly contribute to spread of coronavirus.

Howshouldibehave · 25/07/2021 10:49

@Taciturn

Contrary to popular understanding children are not super spreaders. adc.bmj.com/content/105/7/618

Also these vaccines are still undergoing trials and are only emergency approved. WHO does not yet recommend vaccinating under 16s. Neither does EMA - same rules as here, only vulnerable.

Ahhh, Alasdair Munroe, friend to Us4Them!

That’s a very old article!!

Carrotcakeforbreakfast · 25/07/2021 10:54

I caught it earlier this year from work.
I work in the healthcare setting. I was amazed I went over 12 months without catching it tbh.

EngravedLabels · 25/07/2021 11:00

The people I know with it at the moment either caught it from school or Wembley

Taciturn · 25/07/2021 11:18

[quote Whatshouldicallme]@Taciturn

That article is from June 2020, based on much older versions of the virus and is really not very relevant now. You may not believe in vaccines for children, but data from the most recent wave indicated that schools and schoolchildren do significantly contribute to spread of coronavirus.[/quote]
If you want to discredit the BMJ article that children aren't super spreaders, then please share the countering / more up to date research with the group. Otherwise you are merely spouting rhetoric.

I didn't state any beliefs or opinion on the vaccine for children - merely stated facts that UK emergency approval of trial vaccines is aligned with EU and WHO.

Frazzled2207 · 25/07/2021 11:21

Weirdly loads of kids at school have had it (caught from each other) and plenty of grown ups have caught it too (from work/socialising) but I genuinely don’t know any grown up who caught it from their kid or vv