One week in -Will we catch it?

[Lushmetender]

Ds tested positive last Wednesday but obviously had it Tuesday night. Mr and DH both double vaxxed since May and had negative PCRs and LFTs since. Ds is isolating in room and has own bathroom etc but anyone catch it more than a week later?

You will 'catch' it. Vaccines aren't invisible shields. It's what happens after that that really matters. What you mean is will you show symptoms after a week. Possibly? Depends on your immune response.

Yes I mean are we likely to still get COVID since son has been in self isolation for 7 days and we are all negative. My son is slowly getting a bit better and able to come out of isolation on Thursday.

@CrunchyCarrot

You will 'catch' it. Vaccines aren't invisible shields. It's what happens after that that really matters. What you mean is will you show symptoms after a week. Possibly? Depends on your immune response.

Why do you say that? That's absolutely not true, there is no inevitability about transmission even within households.

OP - please don't listen to inaccurate posts. You can look up the statistics on transmission if you want to know numbers although they are meaningless at an individual level.

All you can do is wait and see, surely everyone knows by now that Covid is an unpredicatable virus and there's no point in trying to guess what might happen

We all know what to do to reduce risk so do that

Why do you say that? That's absolutely not true, there is no inevitability about transmission even within households.

This. My friend and her husband didn't catch it despite their children both having it and they didn't catch it after spending a lot of time with someone else who tested positive

My DSis and her children didnt get it even though BIL had it.

Yes you may or may not catch the virus. And then if you do you may or may not get symptoms.
I don't know what the first reply was on about!

Op this post might jinx me, double jinx back, dd has it on day 8 I think and so far so ok.. Each day I'm waiting for it to kick it.
I felt slightly strange last week, watery eyes, stomach pain..

My DB & SIL tested positive on Day 12 (after 10 days in isolation) after their adult DS got it. Likewise, a close friend and her DH tested positive on day 12 after her adult DS had tested positive. Neither set of parents had been in contact with anyone outside the household in the intervening 2 days. 3 out of 4 of the parents were double jabbed.

@CrunchyCarrot

You will 'catch' it. Vaccines aren't invisible shields. It's what happens after that that really matters. What you mean is will you show symptoms after a week. Possibly? Depends on your immune response.

This is not true, they may catch it or may not, even within a household.

I developed symptoms 8 days after DD1, DD2 did not test positive at any point, nor did their dad.

This is not true, they may catch it or may not, even within a household.

What are you defining as 'catching it', @pinkpanther84? We may not be understanding each other.

I mean that the virus will be in circulation in the household, and that it will be breathed in by everyone, unless they're keeping away by being in another separate room. However breathing the virus in doesn't mean you will develop any symptoms (I found this out myself last year). Your immune system will recognise it if you've been vaccinated or have previously encountered the virus, and may act to prevent anything further developing. So you've 'caught' the virus but won't become ill at all.

We are a house of six - DS bought it back from his DoE expedition and was quite ill - we isolated him as much as possible, but it's not a big house.

DS2 and DS3 share a bedroom. DD has her own, and obvs DH and I share! DS2 and DH tested positive (asymptomatically) 2 days after DS1's positive PCR. DD, DS3 and I continued to test daily with LFTs and were negative all the way through.....so no, it's not inevitable you will get it!

DD is on day 9 with it and nobody else has caught it so far.

I'll be bloody thrilled when we can close the windows though, we've been trying to keep the fresh air flowing and I'm flipping freezing.

Thx for replies. Son in his own room with own bathroom. We obviously feed him. DH goes in. I put the food at his door.
DH and I are on separate rooms and will do for the duration.
Other are preteens but not really been exposed to DS since their negative PCRs but that snotty nose my dd2 had, I’m now wondering if she had it. She was in my room one night as not b well but that was 2 weeks ago. She had a negative PCR. Just the waiting game but like many have great anxiety about it!

I mean that the virus will be in circulation in the household, and that it will be breathed in by everyone, unless they're keeping away by being in another separate room. However breathing the virus in doesn't mean you will develop any symptoms (I found this out myself last year). Your immune system will recognise it if you've been vaccinated or have previously encountered the virus, and may act to prevent anything further developing. So you've 'caught' the virus but won't become ill at all.

This isn't what scientists mean when they talk about vaccines preventing infection.

When we talk about Covid infections, and the vaccines presenting Covid infections, they're talking about lab-detectable presence of the virus. The vaccines are good at seeing off the majority of these, even with delta - meaning very few viral replications are able to take place. It's not just about avoiding symptoms. It's about avoiding asymptomatic disease and pre-clinical transmission, because the virus simply doesn't reach that point.

We’re in a similar situation, DS tested positive by LFT after waking up with symptoms last Thursday, subsequently confirmed by PCR.

DH and I both double vaxxed and ok on LFT so far, waiting for our PCR.

It’s a waiting game isn’t it to see if it’s contained or not. We are barely going out and WFH, even though it’s not mandated, it feels irresponsible not to if we can.