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When was she likely to have caught it?

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 10:00

Child tested negative on a routine LFT on friday. No symptoms.

Went out on Saturday to a local bookshop which was pretty much empty, and home again.

Saw Grandparents on Sunday at home. Negative LFT sunday night for school the next day.

School on Monday, absolutely fine. Negative LFT Monday night.

School on Tuesday absolutely fine.

Woke up at 10.30pm Tuesday with a sore throat.

Woke up Wednesday morning with symptoms, kept off school and taken for PCR.

PCR is positive.

When would you suggest it is likely she caught it?

Please no comments on how regularly tests are done.....this is with good reason

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mewkins · 27/01/2022 12:00

I think school on Monday. Incubation seems shorter for kids at the moment. Kind of doesn't matter though. It is everywhere and as long as people are taking the precautions they need to, no one is to blame.

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 12:01

Definitely no one to blame. More concerned about potential exposure to grand parents.

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mewkins · 27/01/2022 12:03

Yes I would warn them to keep a look out for symptoms. If they have been boosted etc hopefully it should be mild for them too x

itsgettingweird · 27/01/2022 12:03

Probably school.

We had 1 with symptoms on day 1.

Day 2 1 positive LFT. 3 people sore throats. Neg LFT

Day 3 2 more test positive.

Day 4 2 more.

By day 6 all but 3 people from that class were positive!

Baring in mind day 3/4/5 were weekend and inset day!

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 12:04

Fingers crossed. They've been so careful too put popped in on sunday as they were in our town shopping.

Hoping she caught it monday morning at school and therefore avoided passing it on to them.

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Footnote · 27/01/2022 12:06

Based on the ten cases in my son’s class this week, at school on Friday

itsgettingweird · 27/01/2022 12:06

Are you the grandparent? Or a relative or friend?

If your household is completely negative and the positive person doesn't live with you why are you getting the blame?

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 12:14

I'm the step Mum. She was with us from Friday after school until Tuesday school drop off

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Talipesmum · 27/01/2022 12:17

School on Friday or school on Monday. Any child going to school is quite likely to pick it up there. No point “blaming” anyone when school is the highest risk place. I could perhaps understand “blame” if you’d taken her to a covid infested mosh pit with no windows, but as long as other activities are lower risk than school, best to assume that’s the (predictable) cause.

SarahBop · 27/01/2022 12:17

I think it can be upto 14 days beforehand, so anywhere in the previous 14 days!

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 12:18

My thinking based on timings is Monday morning......just hoping she missed passing it to grandparents

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dementedpixie · 27/01/2022 12:39

@debbs77

It does seem that the LFT aren't as good now.

LFT have never picked up all cases and are more reliable at picking it up if you have symptoms which is not the way they are being used

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 12:42

When we had covid before, they were brilliant at picking it up. Different people, different days. Doesn't seem to be the case now

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dementedpixie · 27/01/2022 12:43

Depends how much virus you are shedding as to how effective they might be

Iggly · 27/01/2022 12:45

She may have caught it the week before at school.

I’ve read somewhere (!) that LFTs pick up omicron later than other variants. So you could be showing symptoms but the LFTs still won’t pick it up until a bit later.

itsgettingweird · 27/01/2022 12:48

@debbs77

My thinking based on timings is Monday morning......just hoping she missed passing it to grandparents

You're probably right.

My contact was Thursdays am.

My sore throat (first symptom) started Friday evening.

I didn't test positive until Sunday evening!

Whichjab · 27/01/2022 13:00

I think the Friday before is more likely, from the experience I've had. Event on Friday and then people from the event that had no other contact with each other started showing symptoms from late Mon to the following Sunday. Kids and adults.

tigger1001 · 27/01/2022 13:06

@debbs77

It is such a mess isn't it. We are always so careful, and test regularly.

I'm asking as we've been blamed for her catching it

Who is blaming you?

I hate the blame game that surrounds covid. It's a virus. It's doing what viruses do.

Oh tested positive on 5th Jan. hadn't been out the house since 1st Jan but we think it was 31 december he came into contact with it. We were testing daily at that point and his lft was clear until 5th. My youngest and I tested positive 24 hours later. Eldest stayed negative.

It wasn't anyones fault. Just like you op - it's not your fault. Unless you have been to a covid party with the intention of catching it, it's not your fault. Just tell whoever is doing the blame game to stop being so daft.

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 13:11

I couldn't agree more. Especially when we have had to fight throughout for her to be wearing a mask, testing regularly, home schooling etc etc.

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altmember · 27/01/2022 13:24

There is no blame for catching covid, especially now. Omicron is so, so transmissible and so prevalent that it's simply unavoidable. No amount of face coverings (not proper masks) and sanitiser are going to prevent it in general.

It's a bit like someone catching a cold, or even flu - no one would blame someone for catching those would they?

But I can understand why people still have that mentality - after 2 years of lockdowns, isolations, testing and hiding from this virus it's no surprise that many people still have that mindset, and thus they think if someone catches it they must've done something wrong.

I'm still predicting she caught it Monday at school. It's so prevalent in that age group, and it's where she mixed with by far the most people. It just might have been Friday at school, but that would be along incubation by omicron standards.

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 13:39

Altmember, yes I agree with you totally.

Gutted for her catching it again, and truly hoping we don't get it again also. But ready if we do, and always happy to home school if needed

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LottiesLaundry · 27/01/2022 14:15

She could have caught it from any one or more people over a period of approximately 3-9 days. It's possible that she has been exposed to not one but several cases in the last week or so. Why are you trying to trace this op?

In terms of symptoms, in our family who has been down with it in the last 10 days, symptoms started on the day we tested positive. We've been testing loads and while negative, we had no symptoms. Once we tested positive, symptoms came with a fast and furious vengeance. None of us had it mild mild.

Sally872 · 27/01/2022 14:17

As she had 2 negative lateral flows after seeing grandparents I am hopeful she wouldn't have been contagious yet even if she already had been exposed to it. But more likely it was at school on the Monday.

You've taken ever precaution, definitely not to blame.

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 14:18

I'm just interested in opinions as I'm tired of us being blamed for her catching it.

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debbs77 · 27/01/2022 14:22

Plus because we saw grandparents on sunday

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