Has anyone caught Covid on day 10 of isolation?

[ImNotReallyHere]

DS caught Covid 8 days ago. He has been self isolating in his room, uses a separate bathroom and I have had loads of windows open. So far none us have caught it and with only 2 days of isolation left, I'm hoping it will stay that way.

Just read on a different thread that it is most contagious 2 days before and 5 days after symptoms start. Has anyone got to day 10 before catching it?

Yes, a colleague of mine developed symptoms on day 10, back when isolation was 14 days. How old is your ds? Personally I wouldn't be isolating my child in his room away from the family, unless he's an older teen.

Would like to know this too! We are on day 7 and only my ds has it at the moment.
We are distancing with windows open but he's only 8 so has been coming in and out of his room when he needs us.

My husband got sick 10 days after me, and my ds1 10 days after him back in April 2020. I self isolated from the family when I got sick but my dh didn't / couldn't self isolate from kids .

Ds2 never got sick but spent a month and a half in self isolation, poor kid.

Yep. Friend got it on day 11 - so positive lateral flow on the morning they were first allowed out. Their child then got in on about day 15 from the initial case.

OTOH noone got it in this house from DS, and the only "distancing" we did was to open the windows.

Thanks for the replies - although not what I hoped to hear.

Should have said DS is a teen - spending all day in his room on the PS5 is the norm anyhow. Just now I deliver trays of food up to him.

My youngest’s classmate did.

FWIW OP I think it's pretty rare for it to take so long, esp now with the new, highly transmissable variants.

I am on day 8 of isolation here and really hopeful I am on the homeward straight.

I know you can develop symptoms up to 14 days after exposure, which is why the isolation period used to be the full fortnight, but I seem to remember it was some tiny percentage (like 2%? but don't quote me - this is from memory) that developed symptoms in the last four days. That was why they cut the length of isolation - more people likely to comply with the shorter period vs. very small risk after 10 days.

So my reasoning is that the 10th day must also be a lower risk than the earlier days?

Most people I know tested positive 6-7th day after positive case contact

I also think it depends on whether the person has any symptoms, as you don’t really know when they are most contagious.

A friend’s child caught it from her sister on day 9

Dh tested positive and then dd tested positive 13 days later. Obviously we were officially isolating for the 10 days but because dh was poorly and the school term had finished we stayed at home after the 10 days, otherwise dd would have been out and about as usual.

Sorry, tagging on as I’m in the same position. If someone caught Covid from a family member late on in the isolation period, was the ‘originator’ very unwell? We have an asymptomatic tween. We are hoping the rest of us might escape unscathed!

@Beccatheboo in our case yes, dh was very unwell and youngest dd caught it. Oldest dd had it in May, cough was her only symptom and noone else in the house got it. I have no idea whether there's any link or anything there 🤷‍♀️.

In our house DH got Covid first
I tested positive on his day 5
We thought DD (5) had managed to avoid it somehow but she started with symptoms 2 days after my isolation ended!

DS1 got Covid back in January. I was due to go back to work on day 11 so I tested the evening before and my LFT came up positive. 10 days exactly DH came down with. DS2 never got it.

Thing is - all these people testing positive on day 9-10 will have caught it earlier, just symptoms didn’t show until those days. Viruses incubate for a couple days in most cases. So still more likely they got it around day 7. Also, those testing positive after isolation ends probably picked it up elsewhere on the days they were back out & about!

DS had symptoms and tested positive on day 14 of his isolation on the day before they reduced the isolation period to 10 days! His only symptom was a temperature that passed in a couple of hours, so he may have been asymptomatic for days.

14 days after for us 😟😵‍💫 so frustrating!

But for me, my little one is 7 months so there has been no social distancing ☺️

@Beccatheboo yes for us too. I got sick first and was by far the sickest, dh was less ill (10 days later) and ds1 even less ill ( 10 days after that).

Day 10 for me tomorrow.
Fongers crossed!

We (2 parents and 2 siblings) didn't catch it from teen. We did the same - food delivered outside room, separate bathroom, lots of ventilation etc.
🤞 for you.

Thanks all for your replies. I was really worried as a holiday hanging in the balance but day 13 now and out of
Isolation. None of us did catch it but guess we were very lucky.