Help! Advice needed

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So much conflicting information at the moment. If someone has tested positive and come out of their isolation period can they get covid again immediately? In other words is it 'safe' for them to be around someone who has tested positive?

My aunt has just tested positive today. My mum (who has literally just had covid and come out of isolation earlier this week) still wants to go visit her sister before Christmas. She says that because she's had it so recently she won't get it again. Mum also wants to see us on Christmas Day. Obviously my aunt will be isolating but could be mum still potentially transmit between us all? or is she right about being immune?

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No idea about mum transmitting it to you, but if mum has had delta variant and aunt got omicron (or vice versa), yes your mum could potentially catch it again.

@MousesBack yeah this is the bit that's confusing me, not sure how it works with the different variants. We live in a place where there aren't too many cases of omicron yet but obviously can't be sure. Surely it would be really unlucky to get covid back to back though?

Your Mum would have better immunity from vaccines and having had covid, so I think she would be extremely unlucky to catch it again. She has better immunity than me, who has had vaccines, but not actual covid. Personally I would definitely put off seeing anyone who has covid, unless the person needs help in any way.

If your aunt has covid though then they should be isolating, no?! So no visitors to the home.

Yea technically they should and obviously none of us would be seeing her. It's just that my mum seems to think she is in a different position having recently had covid herself.

Basically my mum is going to visit her regardless. She had this arrangement to spend the weekend with her sister and she doesn't want to let her down, more so now that her sister is having to isolate. She seems to think she is immune from getting it again and much of the research suggests that she may well be right. Providing it's not a different variant.

My concern is could my mum still carry it and transmit it to us after being around her covid positive sister? Or would she need to be infected herself to do that?