Where did you catch it?

[treedragon]

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.

Work. I work on a hospital ward so I suppose that isn't surprising.

presumably by people who would like to carry on parroting outdated assumptions that children do not easily catch or spread COVID

I saw an up to date tweet just yesterday by a non-UK source talking about the UK figures and being surprised that the rate among children wasn't higher as they were the ones not social distancing, not wearing masks and in unventilated buildings and commenting that either children do not catch and spread it in the same way as adults, and/or wearing masks and social distancing doesn't make much difference - either you are going to get it or you're not.

From sitting opposite a friend in a pub. All she had was worse than usual hayfever symptoms but tested positive on a lft

My 10 year old I think just have got it from school. Although no one else tested positive or as far as we are aware had any symptoms

Out of the people I know who've had it recently

1. At school
2. From daughter (school)
3. Crowded bar watching football
4. Work (office)

Got it from DS who is 2! He got it from his nursery pal who got it from his mum who works in the hospital.

We know it came in through nursery as our track and trace was very dull of walk to nursery! No shops, no people etc. DS was also asystomatic, I was not so lucky and was very ill now with long covid.

I doubt my child caught it from preschool, as she hasn't been for 6 days before developing symptoms (we had been away). We had been camping so I can only assume she caught it from someone on the site, in the toilets or on the playground or something. Seems pretty unlikely as we were outdoors the whole time and didn't really come into contact with anyone.

Other possibility is that DH or I or another family member had it asymptomatically and gave it to her.

I think I caught I in Tesco during January lock down. But I don't know

I started with mild symptoms late Sunday night (before bed). I still felt ill (not bad enough to not fo to work if I had been not been in day off) Monday so orders a postal test as it was during the only snow of the year.

Tuesday tried to work online but not possible as coughing to much to talk. Told to take rest of week off!

Same day Got pinged saying I needed to isolate for one day as I had been exposed the previous Sunday (9 days previous) when I had been to Tesco. Send test back

Next day -Wednesday-lost sense of smell and taste . Thursday night got positive covid tests.

It's really weird to have a whole week before getting any symptoms and I have no idea how I caught it as was constantly moving abs wearing a face mask. I also had been to the gp for a face to face And the vet for the dogs jabs but that was only car park.

Tesco was rammed though - guy in self serve said it was busier thank Christmas. I may be jumping to conclusions that the ping was the source of the covid. It's so weird!

I caught it from my 10 year old who caught it from his SEN school in December. 75% of the staff also caught it.

DS brought it home from the childminders. He was totally asymptomatic, mind you.

I'd say I'm almost positive that Ds2 brought it in from school. I'd say it was him as he was the first one to have symptoms and the lft line has unmistakable (higher viral load?), dd tested positive the day after with a faint line and then me the day after her with also a faint line.

@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.

The OP was asking where people caught it, not for your agenda on the spread, or out of date articles.

In answer to the OP I haven't caught it at all, but the people I know who have seem to have caught it through school contact or at work.

Just to add, ds2 always wore his mask in school despite the primary head teacher insisting he take it off he would take it off until he went past her then put it back on.

Dh brought it home. I and the dc were homeschooling and we only went out for our walks. Meet noone.

Dh was working in a hospital and picking up the shopping using click and collect. Two members of his team caught it and then he got it. He still takes packed lunch to work.

@Moonlaserbearwolf

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.

I got it last year but was travelling to and from london when just started

Primary school children. I worked in a hospital throughout the pandemic but caught it when the dc went back to school and brought it home.

@Frazzled2207

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

My son got it from school and then gave it to my DH