what are my chances of getting covid in this situation?

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My adult daughter had a nasty cold 2 weeks ago. She had a PCR test and it was not covid. I caught it from her. I'm double vaccinated and had the booster 3 weeks ago. I didn't PCR but had several negative lateral flow tests.

Yesterday my lodger, who is also good friends with my daughter, also started on a cold. We were all together yesterday lunchtime along with my grandchildren (6 and 4), we assumed he had picked up our infection. He was going to a party last night so as a precaution took a lateral flow before he went. It was positive. A couple of hours later he did another one - positive. This morning I took him for a pcr test. For context, he is a primary school teacher and there is alot of it in his school at the moment.

I did a lateral flow test last night that came back negative. So my question is, does anyone know how likely it is I will get it having had my booster (pfizer) on 1st November?

How close have you been sat to him, and for how long?
Driving him to the pcr test seems quite risky.

@trumpisagit

How close have you been sat to him, and for how long? Driving him to the pcr test seems quite risky.

yes - we were both wearing masks. Not very close apart from that

Posters can’t answer that Q! You’ll just need to wait and see.

Nobody knows. I caught covid from a party I was at for 2 hours. Well ventilated, very large & airy room. I chatted to a couple people sat down on a chair for the 2 hours. Didn’t move off it. Was not in close contact with anyone else at all. 18 adults at that party tested positive.

I then spent 10 days with my household. Young kids, zero isolation. I played, danced, sang, cooked, cleaned their bums, hugged, kissed & shared beds. I shared a bed with my husband. Same room for hours & hours on end. They didn’t catch it. They had no symptoms, negative PCR’s on day 3 & day 8 and negative LF daily.

The day before I tested positive, I’d been in work with what I thought was a very minor cold. 8 hours in a small, unventilated room. Windows firmly shut. I was hovering over peoples desks to support their training, pretty close contact. None of them caught it either.

It’s complete chance. Some people clearly spread it more than others. I’m clearly not much of a spreader (on this occasion) but someone at the party I was at def was!

@Dozer

Posters can’t answer that Q! You’ll just need to wait and see.

I was looking for a statistical response ie 80% of people having recently been boostered do not catch covid from a close contact - that sort of thing.

Nobody had that kind of data since boosters are only now being rolled out
It's fairly unlikely. That's all we can say.

@Bobholll

Nobody knows. I caught covid from a party I was at for 2 hours. Well ventilated, very large & airy room. I chatted to a couple people sat down on a chair for the 2 hours. Didn’t move off it. Was not in close contact with anyone else at all. 18 adults at that party tested positive.

I then spent 10 days with my household. Young kids, zero isolation. I played, danced, sang, cooked, cleaned their bums, hugged, kissed & shared beds. I shared a bed with my husband. Same room for hours & hours on end. They didn’t catch it. They had no symptoms, negative PCR’s on day 3 & day 8 and negative LF daily.

The day before I tested positive, I’d been in work with what I thought was a very minor cold. 8 hours in a small, unventilated room. Windows firmly shut. I was hovering over peoples desks to support their training, pretty close contact. None of them caught it either.

It’s complete chance. Some people clearly spread it more than others. I’m clearly not much of a spreader (on this occasion) but someone at the party I was at def was!

Maybe the person at the party had a higher viral load? Might have been one of the people sat down in a chair next to you as you stayed in that spot for two hours.

The vaccines DO NOT STOP you from getting covid.

Vaccines help prevent serious illness.

People get all different symptoms, some bad, some not so bad.

Some people get covid from close contacts, some don't.

@CloseYourEyesAndSee

Nobody had that kind of data since boosters are only now being rolled out It's fairly unlikely. That's all we can say.

What are the stats from the double vaccinated? I think I read it cuts down transmission by 50%. Is that right? And you wouldn't have a 100% chance of catching it even with no vaccine.

"The vaccines DO NOT STOP you from getting covid."

Everyone knows that. There are claims that it REDUCES transmission though.

I am a primary school teacher. Last weekend my youngest tested positive - they are very much a mummy's girl and rarely far from me at home (the few days before they tested positive they would be in my bed from 5am). I have also had 4 positive cases in my class in the last fortnight (some sit very close to my desk). I have had 3PCRs in the last 2 weeks and I LFT daily at the moment (and have been doing it a minimum of twice a week since spring). I have not yet tested positive! I am double jabbed since June, not yet had my booster.
So despite being surrounded by covid for 10 days I've yet to test positive.

@Gwenhwyfar

"The vaccines DO NOT STOP you from getting covid."

Everyone knows that. There are claims that it REDUCES transmission though.

The OP posted

I was looking for a statistical response ie 80% of people having recently been boostered do not catch covid from a close contact - that sort of thing.

This is why I put the vaccines do not stop you from getting covid.

@Gwenhwyfar

"The vaccines DO NOT STOP you from getting covid."

Everyone knows that. There are claims that it REDUCES transmission though.

Not so much ‘claims’ as ‘substantial evidence’.

I don’t think anyone can answer the question I sat next to someone in a pub for over a hour who tested positive the next day . I did several lateral and 1 pcr all negative but I’ve had covid and double jabbed so maybe some antibodies .

I’ve no idea how reliable this study is but it suggests a 1 in 4 likelihood although it doesn’t say anything about the booster. www.bbc.com/news/health-59077036

You really do just have to wait and see.

Want there a study saying 25 percent chance picking it up within the household if fully vaccinated, 37 percent if not.

The vaccines do stop the majority of people from contracting covid.

@Timescale

The vaccines do stop the majority of people from contracting covid.

No they don't.

Boris himself has confirmed this

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsQ5ruBG8Hc

So what is the percentage efficacy then?

They aren’t 100 percent effective but to say they don’t stop you from catching covid is not correct.

I can confirm you can catch it from close contact. DH had been double vaxxed, plus booster, and caught it from our daughter (also double vaxxed). She thought she had a cold, tested, and it came back positive!

It actually turned out no worse than a common cold, and he was over it in less than a week, but continued his isolation for the full time.

" to say they don’t stop you from catching covid is not correct."

Well, it is correct if you can still catch Covid when vaccinated. The vaccine may reduce the chances of your catching it, but it does not stop you from catching covid.

"I was looking for a statistical response ie 80% of people having recently been boostered do not catch covid from a close contact - that sort of thing.

This is why I put the vaccines do not stop you from getting covid."

OP didn't say she thinks the vaccine stops you catching Covid though. She was asking if anyone could give her an idea what the chances were.

You really can’t tell. My son slept in my bed with me when he was positive and I still didn’t catch it (double vaccinated but no booster)

Impossible to say, my partner tested positive last Monday, he has literally only been out of the house twice - once to his office the Tuesday prior and once that weekend to a cash machine and petrol station. I do everything else as I don't drive so be drives and sits in the car and I go grab the shopping take the kids swimming lessons do the school runs etc and go into my office. He has been isolating as best he can but we sit in the same room ( ventilated) when having tea, and we have shared a car when both getting a PCR. Me and my three children are still currently testing negative. So strange to think I've been around him an insanely large amount more than either situations where he could have caught it but I guess that's just how it is. Different viral loads etc. we are both double vaccinated also since august. I think you just wait it out, keep doing lft every morning and just see how it goes. Really no way to tell.