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What do you think the likelihood is of my dd getting Covid?

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Mattiejoy · 16/11/2021 22:17

On Sat, my dc spent all day indoors with a friend, plus time spent in a car together. In the evening, my dc friend didn't feel well so they did an lft and it was positive, later confirmed by pct. My dc is displaying no signs and negative lft. Today, I took dc for a pcr as a close contact, if thats negative do you think dc is in the clear? I'm just interested to hear what people think, I was convinced my dc would get it, they must have been exposed to the virus due to close and prolonged contact.

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Ohchristmastreeohchristmastree · 17/11/2021 06:36

Both my daughters have spent a day with someone with covid. In the same room, train carriage, walking together, one even sitting on their lap. They didn’t get it!

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Mattiejoy · 17/11/2021 09:04

@Ohchristmastreeohchristmastree

Both my daughters have spent a day with someone with covid. In the same room, train carriage, walking together, one even sitting on their lap. They didn’t get it!

It's so strange isn't it?

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bettertimesarecomingnow · 17/11/2021 09:46

Mine also spent the weekend with a friend - who treated positive on Monday.

I took her and ds for a PCR yesterday and waiting for the results. Hoping I haven't done it too early - she seems fine and lateral flow says negative.

Who knows? My son who didn't see the friend is coughing and has a runny nose.

bumbleymummy · 17/11/2021 09:49

Maybe she’s already had it in the past?

Frazzled2207 · 17/11/2021 09:51

My cousins young children went down with it a week ago. She is a single mum and isn’t able to socially distance from them.

A week later she is still clear but their dad who they saw for just a couple of hours they day before they first started feeling poorly, went down with covid at the weekend.

Their grandparents who also saw them on the day they went ill, are in the clear too.

All adults vaccinated. No rhyme or reason.

Iggly · 17/11/2021 09:55

It may be too early for symptoms to develop.

She may have had it already.

She may get it but her immune system deals with it quickly.

Remmy123 · 17/11/2021 09:58

It can take up to 10 days for symptoms to show

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Mattiejoy · 17/11/2021 10:06

@bumbleymummy

Maybe she’s already had it in the past?

Yes, maybe alright I've always taken her for a PCR for any symptoms, test on lft regularly and I have routine pcr everywhere and have never tested + but yes definitely a possibility.

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Mattiejoy · 17/11/2021 10:07

@Remmy123

It can take up to 10 days for symptoms to show

Yes, they say that but I'd say unusual?

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Iggly · 17/11/2021 10:11

It’s not unusual! The original window was 14 days and they reduced it because most was within 10

Delatron · 17/11/2021 10:30

I think the with the original variant most people show symptoms up to 10 days with a small percentage at 14 days.

Delta seems to be a bit quicker. I think the average is 4-5 days. But I have heard people being exposed and not developing symptoms until well over a week later.

There is no rhyme or reason. I’ve been in close contact with quite a few cases in unventilated rooms and avoided it. All DS’s friends at school came down with it and he escaped it.

So all you can do is keep testing. But she may well be fine.

Calee03 · 17/11/2021 10:36

They say the average time between exposure and getting symptoms is 5 days so I would consider testing again tomorrow.

I know someone, her 3 kids had very close contact with a family member during the weekend who tested positive the very next day, they did pcrs a couple days which were all negative and had no symptoms so carried on going school. A week after the exposure they all tested positive on the same day with a lft, confirmed by pcr. They had little to no symptom throughout. Wouldn't of known they had it if they didn't do an lft.

Brokenrecord3006 · 17/11/2021 10:42

I know so many people who have been very close contacts and none of them have gone on to get Covid themselves. Seems like you have to pretty much lick the face of someone with Covid to catch it.

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Mattiejoy · 17/11/2021 10:49

@Brokenrecord3006

I know so many people who have been very close contacts and none of them have gone on to get Covid themselves. Seems like you have to pretty much lick the face of someone with Covid to catch it.

And yet some people got it in lockdown and don't know how they got it. So strange

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Delatron · 17/11/2021 10:58

I find it utterly bizarre when you read threads about people who have been so careful and only popped out to the shops and have caught Covid. Yet others have shared a bed with a positive case for a week and still not caught it.

Think there are some people who are definitely super spreaders. And other who maybe shed hardly any viral load? Then some people may have natural immunity from a similar Coronavirus they had within the last few years...

Would love to see more research on this. We are told Covid is so contagious but it would seem not for everyone..

bettertimesarecomingnow · 17/11/2021 11:30

Well dd (9) just got her results back and she's negative.

I really can't believe it! Both Saturday and Sunday plus overnight in the same room and she didn't catch it.

Wondering if I've done the PCR too early. The girl who tested positive started with a temp on Monday. Perhaps she was over her infectious period tho. I don't know.

It doesn't really make sense.

Egghead68 · 17/11/2021 11:33

@Brokenrecord3006

I know so many people who have been very close contacts and none of them have gone on to get Covid themselves. Seems like you have to pretty much lick the face of someone with Covid to catch it.

This really isn’t the case.

Op - she’s not fully in the clear till 14 days after

Egghead68 · 17/11/2021 11:34

@Delatron

Would love to see more research on this. We are told Covid is so contagious but it would seem not for everyone..

There is some research coming out now about individual differences in susceptibility

DottyHarmer · 17/11/2021 11:42

Yes, I read that. Apparently 15% of the population have a gene which "attracts" (not technical!) the virus.

I would be rather sceptical of people (especially online, eg on MN!) who swore they had covid during lockdown in spite of hiding in their houses. We know now that transmission via shopping etc is so unlikely as to be almost impossible, yet there were posters stoutly declaring they had contracted covid from their post. You have to take everything online with two large drums of Saxa salt.

winnieanddaisy · 17/11/2021 12:10

When my DD had covid last November, her husband and slept with her every night until she was admitted to hospital ( 8 nights) . He still hasn't had covid although he's triple jabbed now .
It's just the luck of the draw .

Lolololololol · 17/11/2021 13:13

My DH finished his isolation last week, myself and 2 DC have come out the other side negative. We don't have a big enough house for him to have isolated away from us, so unsure why we didn't catch it. My best friends DD9 tested positive, and within 3 days friend, her baby and partner have all tested positive. It's really weird how it effects some and not others?

shouldistop · 17/11/2021 13:16

Your child might have natural immunity from a previous mild or asymptomatic infection

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