How protected is Dd?

[Kca29]

All 4 of us had covid in early - mid December. Mild symptoms, dd 6 was totally asymptomatic. She came out of isolation on the 25th December after 10 days isolation. This isn't even relevant really but I'm trying to get timings right.

Dc hadn't been in school for days prior to testing positive. Me and dp got it kept them off. Not that's really relevant now.

Anyway, both my kids went back to school this week after an extended Christmas holiday 😅

Positive case in Dd's class. The kid she sits next to I believe and the kid was in Tuesday and yesterday. Her parents have it so she's caught it off them (friends with the mum on fb so seem it on there).

How protected is Dd? After having covid not long ago?

Not really worried about the illness side. It was very mild for all of us and Dd had no Symptoms.

Petrified of the isolation again. Loss of earnings and two children with sen climbing the walls. It took over a week for all of us to test positive so I was pretty much. isolated for 3 weeks in December

Can't do it again any time soon 😪

You would hope you’ve all got some immunity from having covid recently, so unless DD gets symptoms you wouldn’t need to be worrying.

I'd say she's very safe, it's been 2-3 weeks since she got over it and I don't think she'd be vulnerable to catching it again that quickly keep a close eye on symptoms and if she's been testing negative on lfts since having covid, try to test her every couple of days. Fingers crossed she doesn't catch it

I don't know whether it makes a difference if it was Delta that you all had. I'd hope there would still be some immunity there but I've tried to look this up myself and can't find the answer.

I'm unsure if it was delta or omicron. Timing of getting covid and symptoms of the rest of us (she as asymptomatic) would suggest omicron but who knows 🤷‍♀️

New to me as there's been very few cases in DC's school. Very few children have knowingly had it but those who have mainly didn't catch it at school and were perhaps already isolating due to parents or siblings having it! There hasn't been any outbreaks in their school yet. But I do think there was an outbreak in earlier 2020 before testing. Lots of kids & teachers dropping like flies with a mystery illness!

Say, it there was an outbreak and testing was advised? Are mine exempt from routine testing due to having covid recently? 90 days? (Obviously if they had symptoms I would test).

They'd not be exempt from LFTs. My understanding is that the extra line gets gradually fainter over the course of the infection and then completely negative after a couple of weeks. Sometimes sooner. Whereas PCRs can pick up an old infection for up to 90 days so best avoiding those. Although the rules say that with symptoms you'd need to PCR again even within 90 days. Most people don't actually continue testing positive for that long. It's all so confusing though.