How transmissible is it though?

[Tiredmumofboys]

I'm pretty stumped and can't be the only one.
To clarify I'm double vaccinated. Was CEV (end stage renal failure and high blood pressure, using immune suppression during pandemic) and shielded for the full advised time. Didn't visit a shop ect for over a year. Was absolutely terrified for my life. My mental health was terrible.
Eventually my children returned to school in April this year and now they have started high school in September. Both year 7. I accepted the risk so my family could carry on with life. That was important. I've still continued to be careful with my contacts though.
Covid is rife in their school and last Wednesday my son started coughing when he woke up, tested positive on an LFT and later that day on a PCR. It wasn't a surprise, he was exposed on the Wednesday a week before on the school bus to 2 children who then tested positive a day later on the Thursday. (My son wasn't at school on the Monday and Tuesday before he tested positive, as we were isolating as a full household so my other son could be admitted to hospital for an operation, it's important to note we all tested negative last weekend for this purpose)
My son is so loving and cuddly I couldn't bring myself to isolate from him over the past week regardless of him being 11, he's been under the weather and needed his mum. ❤️
However, I have to genuinely ask something.
After kissing, hugging, watching films on the sofa, sat next to him doing school work ect for the past week. Playing Lego games together on the Xbox. At one point I even forgot myself and took a swig of his drink 🤦
Why if it's so transmissible haven't my husband, other son or myself caught it? I've spent every day so far waiting for it, sure it would get us.
LFTs every day and PCR tests this gone Saturday for the rest of us have been negative. Bar myself who actually had a 'could not be read' result, so have had to take another and I'm still waiting on the results! We are on day 7 of isolation for him.
My son spent a 15 minute bus journey sat next to 2 kids and caught it. Yet I've been with him non stop 15 hours a day for 11 days and nothing.
My other son is back at school now after his operation and having a negative PCR this weekend. We are still doing LFTs for us all daily. Therefore there is a good chance my other son will catch it from other kids who are still spreading it about at school. Maybe we'll catch it then?!
I've had a sore throat for days now, no positive tests, trust me I know I'm doing them right! I've done enough of the blinking things to be an expert 🤣
It can't be just me that's been confused by this corona?

Hopefully you won’t get it. One of my teens had very close contact for a few days with a group of friends, 3 out of 7 of them tested positive in the following week or so, my son didn’t get it. All were unvaccinated.
We’ve all had various other contact with positive cases and haven't caught it yet despite me and kids being unvaccinated and only my partner being vaccinated in our house.
I’m sure we’ll all get it at some point. My kids were both exposed to chicken pox but didn’t get it til the 3rd or 4th time it went round nursery or school.

My ds had it in July, no one else caught it. My dd has just had it (been back to school for over a week) and no one else caught it. But we were very careful. They both isolated in their rooms and I cleaned the bathroom each time they used it. But everyone has been surprised that we didn't catch it this time.

It’s certainly unpredictable. I caught it at a party I was at for 2 hours. 16 adults at that party have tested positive. Only 2 children. I went to work on the day I tested positive (I had no symptoms at that point, I test twice a week for work, I always pop into a local test centre on my way home). I sat in a small room for 8 hours, no windows open. No distancing, no masks. None of my colleagues have yet come down with it. On day 7 now, so still time I suppose. And I’m sharing close contact with my young children & husband at home & they all remain negative & symptom free..

I guess I’m certainly not a super spreader 😂 but I wonder if it’s because I haven’t had a cough? I’ve been sneezing a bit but no cough. I always think a cough most be the biggest spreader of any germs?

Sneezing is also a good way of spreading it as well tbf, I've been told by NHS t&t that if I'm still sneezing, fever, have a runny nose or diarrhoea on day 10 I have to continue to isolate. Thankfully its all good

My 2 DC had Covid 3/4 weeks ago and we stayed at home doing normal things during quarantine and I tested negative and am double jabbed.

I now have just tested positive from either a huge delay or from an outside source

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I'd make sure you keep the windows open as much as you can

Have you had pcrs done since you started with sore throat? My son has Covid now and the sore throat is one of his major symptoms.

Where else would you have caught the sore throat?

Thanks for all your responses. Its very obvious how unpredictable it is!
@countesskay what are the chances of that hey?! All that time at home with positive cases and you might have caught it elsewhere!
@bigyellowtractorface I had a PCR yesterday morning with my sore throat. It was a repeat test because the one on Saturday was inconclusive. It came back negative this afternoon and all my LFT are negative too. I've done 2 today because my sore throat is now a bit if a tickley cough. 🤦 But nothing, not even a hint of a line and I've tried a nose and throat and just a nose one too from different packs just incase I'm missing something! I haven't left the house since last Tuesday l and we've all isolated! It's so strange!
I'm usually the first person to catch everything. Infections seem to take over my body like wildfire and I suffer with a lot of hospital admissions. So I'm very very surprised....or I'm brewing one hell of a terrible time on its way! 🤦

I wonder the same thing. I caught it when I’ve been going nowhere but my daughter, who I didn’t isolate from didn’t catch it from me! I have no idea when I was close enough to anyone to catch it. She’s had negative LFs and 2 negative PCRs. It’s weird

@Coffeey I've tried having the windows open but the covid child keeps complaining it's cold and going round closing them all 🤭 he's sat in our 21 degree boiling house with a blanket and hot water bottle!

I think it must be fairly transmissible. Ds 1 and 2 tested positive lft on Sunday and me, Dh and Dd tested positive today- that's not that long to pass it on tbh.

It's really odd to have a sore throat if none of you are mixing out of the house tho. Unless one of you has a low grade non Covid virus from before maybe? Or you could you be tensing up your throat and mistaking it for a sore throat? Whilst my son has had Covid my husband and I have constantly been focusing on something or other thinking we maybe have it. I think I tense up my throat and then realise what I am doing.

My son is on day 9 now and we haven't caught it (yet). We have kept our distance once we knew he had it, which was quite early on. He still has a cough and not sure if it's ok to risk him coming into communal areas again whilst he has that. No idea how much live virus he is still likely to have. 😬

Some people are immune. Genetically maybe

[quote Tiredmumofboys]@ApplesAreTheBaneOfMyLife fingers crossed for your household. It's an anxious time. You tell yourself what will be, will be. But in reality every throat tickle or ache sparked a dreaded feeling and I was extremely anxious.
I know as people say there isn't a pattern, but hearing other people's experiences give me a sense of guidance, even if it doesn't reflect what will happen for us.[/quote]
I don't really understand your final sentance.

As few weeks ago two friends had covid at the same time, they don't know each other so no connection between their infections. Both are the same age, double jabbed and healthy, one was confined to bed for 2 weeks and nearly ended up in hospital, the other only knew she had covid because she had to test for her work and felt fine throughout.

What can be concluded from that? How would that give you any guidance, all cases are unique, I genuinely don't get it.

I know some families who don’t catch it from each other and some who do. It’s so random.

Unfortunately we were the latter and it took me and dc2 9 and 10 days to test positive. I was and still ah very ill.

@Sandyjag

A colleague of my brother accidentally flicked the contests of a tube that had been in a covid patients lung into their face and mouth and didn’t catch it. Individual cases are unpredictable. But on the whole it’s very contagious.

They were handling contaminated specimens with no PPE? No masks/visors?

Oh snd dc2 had a sore throat for days before finally testing positive. It was her main symptom.

Viral load must definitely play a part

I agree with bob its the superspreaders. Actually coughers would make sense too as we all get all cough and colds ... And yes all cough. Last school year we caught at least 3 colds from the dc so they definitely spread those.

I’m quite intrigued by it, tbh..!

We know several couples where one has caught it and the other hasn’t, despite sharing a bed

And we know other people who have caught it from a short trip to the supermarket while wearing a mask and diligently sanitising hands

As others have said, it must come down to viral load and individual susceptibility but probably several different mechanisms

A mum friend didn’t test positive until 16 days after her child tested positive. Well out of the ten days isolation.

I had it in the early days and my preschooler too but my daughter and partner didn’t get it at all. Makes no sense other than they never get I’ll and we get everything going

[quote Tiredmumofboys]@Coffeey I've tried having the windows open but the covid child keeps complaining it's cold and going round closing them all 🤭 he's sat in our 21 degree boiling house with a blanket and hot water bottle![/quote]
Aw bless. Hope you're all feeling better soon.

@AFuturisticalSound with all respect...everybody's life and circumstance is unique. But we take comfort or information hearing other people's experiences. Sometimes it gives others a chance to reason with their own situation, gives guidance on what could or may happen. If I hadn't asked this question or sought the advice and information from others, I wouldn't know that there's a chance, all be it slim chance, of testing positive from my son's covid past his isolation period. I'm in no way presuming that my household is going to follow the same pattern as anyone elses on this forum. I'm intrigued by the sheer difference in experiences of transmission.

Have you tested? You may well have caught it but have no symptoms.

@MrsSkylerWhite I've tested on PCR twice day 3 of my son's covid isolation and day 5. Both negative and I've taken LFTs every single day. Not a hint of a line at all.