10 days before contagious period stops, over cautious?

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Dd has it, we've been eating separate and doing what we can bearing in mind it's one main room house, one loo and she's 9.

She's due back to school in Friday.. I want to eat down stairs, is it worth the risk?

I reckon the ten days woud be slightly cautious?

Who has been looking after her?

Well there is an outbreak in china right now which was due to someone developing symptoms just after the 14 day isolation they have there so 10 is a guide people have reported anything from 3 days after exposure to 16days i believe but the average is 8ish

Dh been looking after she she's been physically OK thank goodness.

Ok, so is she comfortable without you but just with DH? Are you particularly vulnerable?

@MRex does the op have to explain her arrangements to you?

@ReallyBobster

@MRex does the op have to explain her arrangements to you?

If she is vulnerable the answer would be slightly different to if she’s not, I suppose. OP the answer is no one knows if she’s still contagious or not.

It is cautious, yes. I have a masters in an immunology field & it’s defiantly very cautious. Unfortunately, there will always be outliers. Some who are infectious at day 10 & some who stop being infectious at day 5. On average, for a coronavirus of any kind, you are looking at 7-8 days for the vast majority.. but no way of knowing if you are one of those people or if you are in the minority!

"The who has been looking after her" and "is she comfortable with this" does feel a bit judgey though.

Hope you are ok OP and manage to stay well.

@ReallyBobster

@MRex does the op have to explain her arrangements to you?

The mental impact on DD and physical impact on OP are both relevant to how I would personally be comfortable explaining the residual risk. The risk has to take into account relevant circumstances, or there is a risk of inadvertently directing OP to pay attention to the wrong details. If OP doesn't want to answer that's fine, but then I don't need to either.

To be clear there has been mixing it's impossible to avoid and being in the same room, I've just tried to be with her and around her but also then upstairs for me.

I don't have touch wood any known extra risk.
So today and tonight could be the big hump to get over then. If I can get through tonight then it could be home free.
Could be /might be.thank you really bobster. She's not needed looking after as thankfully her bought of covid has been extremely mild. Just normal supervision ofA 9 year old and dh works from home home.

Bobholl that's really useful thanks. I appreciate there will be cases at either end that's don't fit the average but tonight it occurred to me it's rather like telling is it will take 3 weeks to get a passport application done but in reality it's more like 5 days.

Has your DH already had it?

I'm not sure I understand what your vulnerabilities are to be keeping so much distance from a child. If you're double jabbed without vulnerable conditions, then the majority are not infectious after 7-10 days. If you are clinically extremely vulnerable or expecting a baby soon then wait until she's fully better from fever, nausea etc (cough and anosmia might go on longer) plus 2 days.

Mrex I'm not sure I need you to know the ins and outs of my situation are

I just wanted to know, do people think its extremely cautious and perhaps dd could already not be contagious.

You specifically said "is it worth the risk?".
That depends on your risk and hers.
What was the question you intended where those factors aren't relevant?

Dd and her mates all had it in August (aged 14) the consensus seemed to be to do a LFT to come out of isolation at home (yes average about a week). DH OTOH had a fever and a positive LFT at day 11 so his isolation was extended to 13 days.

The risk of catching covid, from one infected person to another whose managed to be present but at work as well.