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Outbreak in Dd's class.

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Cak92942 · 09/01/2022 09:09

Hi all.

There's been about 4/5 cases this week going into the weekend in dd's class of 20 or so including the teacher and it seems to be increasing. There's been more cases over the weekend according to the class fb group so I expect further measures will be taken tomorrow??

Dd had covid in December and came out of isolation on Christmas Day . How protected is she from it? She was totally asymptomatic. She had been in school for several days before testing positive. Me and dp both had it and we kept her off. So at the time no one else in her class would have caught it from her.

I'm not sure if we had omicron or delta but symptoms would suggest omicron.

Anyway, back to now. we talk about natural immunity but is there a chance she could get it again?

I'm not really scared of the illness. We were all mildly ill or asymptomatic. I'm more worried about the isolation again. Dc both have sen and it's the hardest part. Plus loss of earnings etc.

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Cak92942 · 09/01/2022 09:11

Also, I know she shouldn't do a routine pcr within 90 days of covid but what about lft.

Also, she still has a slight lingering cough from a non covid virus she had end of November/early December. It's been going on for weeks. Worried it will be assumed covid when it's not. She only really coughs when she runs around or it's really cold now. It's been lingering for weeks. Covid did not worsen the cough for her or give her new symptoms so completely unrelated.

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Covidworries · 09/01/2022 09:14

It is possible that child may be off school if other staff have got it next week.
I dont know how likely it is to test positive that soon, but there has been people that have so i would test and monitor.

OliveTree75 · 09/01/2022 09:23

Highly doubt further measures will be taken in school. 1/3 of my class had it at once in November plus my two TA's and nothing happened. Now another class has 5 cases and carrying on as normal. If the teacher is off they will combine classes. Our two reception classes have combined this week as one of the teachers has covid.

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Cak92942 · 09/01/2022 09:41

@OliveTree75

Highly doubt further measures will be taken in school. 1/3 of my class had it at once in November plus my two TA's and nothing happened. Now another class has 5 cases and carrying on as normal. If the teacher is off they will combine classes. Our two reception classes have combined this week as one of the teachers has covid.
Thank you. We had a letter to say if there was more than 5 they would, but I know little about it.

Our school has been mainly unaffected until now!

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Frazzled2207 · 09/01/2022 09:56

Is she in primary?
When we had a outbreak in year 2 in December they bubbled off the class and didn’t let them mix with any others.
Only for a few days.
However there was only an outbreak in their class. Would be difficult to do if lots of classes had outbreaks
I would have thought unlikely your daughter will get it again so soon but no guarantees

Watapalava · 09/01/2022 10:34

She doesn't need to lft or pcr for 90 days (that advice has not changed) so if she does get it she won't be testing to know anyway so no isolation.

Cookiecrisps · 09/01/2022 10:51

Before Christmas my class had 14/29 children off with Covid as well as 2 adults linked to the class including me. The only additional measures were the class had to have assembly and eat lunch in their own classroom to minimise mixing indoors. They were still allowed to play with all the other year groups outside though and adults were able to go between this class and others to teach and support as per DfE guidance.

SilverontheTree · 09/01/2022 11:37

Don’t test your DD, LFT or PCR and carry on sending her in if you possibly can. Unless symptomatic of course.

Covidworries · 09/01/2022 11:47

And people not testing their children is why health vunerable children are unable to attend school

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Cak92942 · 09/01/2022 11:53

Thanks all. She's in primary, year 2. She tested positive on the 14th December ish x

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Watapalava · 09/01/2022 11:54

Vulnerable children have been told specifically that they can and should attend school

They are at almost zero risk

Those not attending are suffering because of parents who ignore the data and the actual advice children have been given

cantkeepawayforever · 09/01/2022 11:55

@Covidworries

And people not testing their children is why health vunerable children are unable to attend school
Not to mention why school staff are at disproportionately high risk in terms of catching Covid, which in turn affects the education of entire classes over periods of weeks or longer (and of course raises the possibility of classes being sent home due to a lack of adults in school).
itwasntaparty · 09/01/2022 11:56

Dts had 20 out of 30 in December, the only ones that were in had had it already. No further measures.

cantkeepawayforever · 09/01/2022 11:57

@Watapalava

Vulnerable children have been told specifically that they can and should attend school

They are at almost zero risk

Those not attending are suffering because of parents who ignore the data and the actual advice children have been given

Children are still being specifically and individually advised by paediatricians not to attend school, based on their risk profile and the current state of the pandemic.

Vulnerable children 'en masse' have not been told to isolate - but many will have received specific medical advice that they should or must do so.

Covidworries · 09/01/2022 12:13

@watapalava

Not quite. The government has said CEV need to attend school all along because it fit the schools are safe narative, despitethe shielding letters saying avoid groups, avoid indoor, you are verylikely to be very ill with covid (so a complete c9ntradiction) And lets be honest the government really dont give too hoots about these children.

Im not avoiding the advice or data, am am following the advice from the medical team, not someone like you on the internet who has no concept of what CEV families are going through.

Looneytune253 · 09/01/2022 12:18

@Watapalava

She doesn't need to lft or pcr for 90 days (that advice has not changed) so if she does get it she won't be testing to know anyway so no isolation.
That's no necessarily true. If a child develops symptoms they would need to test again and if positive they need to isolate again accordingly. It may or may not be a new infection.
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Cak92942 · 09/01/2022 12:22

I've done a lft on her which is negative - thankfully! I won't do a pcr unless she actually gets symptoms though! Fingers crossed she won't given she's just had it!

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Cookerhood · 09/01/2022 12:25

I think LFTs are ok within 90 days, it's just PCRs can detect lingering viral material? Happy to be proved wrong though, I can't keep up!

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Cak92942 · 09/01/2022 12:27

@Cookerhood

I think LFTs are ok within 90 days, it's just PCRs can detect lingering viral material? Happy to be proved wrong though, I can't keep up!
I think you are right. It would make sense given we can do lft's on days 6&7 of days of covid now now to see if we are negative... I can't keep up either. It's all very contradictory 😅
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