Outbreak at work. Could’ve been avoided with isolation!!!

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Work colleague came in to work last week whilst her husband was at home, positive with Covid.

She was doing daily LFT’s and had been for a PCr test at the beginning of her husbands isolation.

Monday she was in work, Tuesday morning she got a positive LFT.

Yesterday 4 other colleagues have also had positive LFT’s.

Surely it’s got to have been spread by the lady who’s husband had Covid? Perhaps her LFT’s were just late in showing her positive?

I just cannot understand the logic behind not having to isolate when someone in your household is positive.

Thankfully I’m not affected by this as it’s in a different office to me!

It just doesn’t make sense, does it? I am really not looking forward to kids going back to school next week, it will be mayhem (again).

Crazy isn't it. Friend, and her two toddlers positive Pcr. Dad symptoms, negative. Into work his police boss says.....so he took a day annual leave as wife and children unwell, next day positive lateral flow.

You are still supposed to isolate when someone in your house is positive

@Savoretti not with a negative Pcr now though.

I do agree. A good balance might have been that you have to isolate if a family member tests positive, but not for a close contact e.g. colleague, someone you went for lunch with.
When they announced the new rules for isolation I assumed it only applied to cost contact, not household members.

@Savoretti no you’re not if you’re double vaccinated or under 18. My ds has Covid. We don’t even have to do a PCR test, the wording was should. (We did do one).

@Savoretti

You are still supposed to isolate when someone in your house is positive

Not according to the government website.

@HungryHippo11 agree, much better idea. I also couldn't believe it when she said.

@HungryHippo11 that’s what I understood it to be.
I hadn’t heard of the -ve PCR bit @bookh

So she went to work while waiting for the PCR results? I thought you had to have a negative PCR before you stopped isolating?
It is crazy rules though. Family should deff have to isolate.

[quote bookh]@Savoretti not with a negative Pcr now though. [/quote]
But even that's stupid, they've spent the last 18+ months saying a negative pcr after close contact doesn't mean you don't have to isolate.

Anyone with half a brain cell can understand that if you take a pcr and it's negative, there's nothing to say that you wouldn't get a positive result the next day.

Add in the fact that they've now discovered that vaccine efficacy reduces after 6 months....

We'll be seeing a lot of this over the autumn - I think it's what Whitty meant by 'bumpy'

I think it's a shame they have not set the household as the basic 'unit' for isolation. It would avoid these circumstances.

But the country seems to have swallowed whole the idea that there was the only way to go about lifting, and that it had to be during a time of rising cases, so we're a bit stuck with it.

It's not going to be a good time to be CV, let alone CEV

All she had to do according to the rules was the first PCR - so by doing the LFTs at least she stopped it going any further. I agree it doesn't make sense when it's the same household.

Yes the rules should have been that you must isolate if it’s a household member.

There is a huge difference between having lunch with a friend who tests positive and your window of opportunity to catch it was 2 hours and your husband/child where it’s 10 days!

If you are constantly in contact with a positive case you should be isolating.

I agree @HungryHippo11 and it’s what I assumed they’d changed it to. Seems absolutely bonkers and I’m dreading going back to school. I would be expected in if anyone in my family is positive but I work with some vulnerable staff. I would feel dreadful if I passed the virus on. I’m double jabbed obviously but know so many who have still caught it.

Absolutely agree @ThatsNotMyReindeer . When my friend said her husband was to go to work with symptoms, three positives in the household I spent ages reading it all again, in disbelief. As I say he just took annual leave and then got a positive but absolutely staggers me it was even asked of him.

My neighbour tested positive last week and on the second day following the PCR, her children knocked on for mine.
Her youngest now has covid as well.
It just didn't sit right with me at all, and I am also classed as CEV.

I agree, OP. I think we should still be isolating household contacts. One of dd's close friends will be going to school as per the new rules, but her mum is sick with covid. So we'll have to wait and see how long it takes to pass it around amongst the kids. The mother of another of her friends is CEV and I can only imagine how stressful that must be for both her and the dc.

I tested positive last week, no one I work with or live with has subsequently tested positive.
You're no longer required to isolate if you live with someone that's positive if you are double jabbed and your pcr comes back clear

Well if it’s someone in their household then they should be isolating with them. People are not reading the rules properly

@Savoretti

Well if it’s someone in their household then they should be isolating with them. People are not reading the rules properly

That's not right, as of last Monday a clear pcr allows household members to go out

No @Savoretti I don’t think so. I checked when it changed and nothing about household is mentioned unless it’s changed again.

But she could also have caught it from someone else among those at work who tested positive

Not if you’re double jabbed or under 18. Advised to get a PCR but not enforced. Crazy.

Before the change we had two people in the office with it, management told us not to isolate, just to wear masks.
Luckily no one else got it.