My child is only one in class who hasn't had it.

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My dd is in a class of 28 children. A few weeks back 15 children were off with covid in one week. I have just checked the class watsapp group and every child has caught covid except for my dd.

Her two best friends had it at the same time. We've been testing regularly and she's had no symptoms.

I'm starting to worry a bit as I feel like she hasn't yet had the virus so I don't know how it will affect her. Most of her classmates have only had mild symptoms with it.

Anyone else in this position?

Both my DCs as well. The first wave came in October and for DS1 16 of his class of 21 had it. It has gone through again and again and some kids are on their third time. We test 3 times a week as DS has immune issues and he has always tested negative. (So far...... ). Right at the beginning though before we even knew covid was here in the UK the entire family had a shocker of a cold that absolutely felled us for a couple of weeks. Maybe that was 'it' because afterwards of course it beca,me clear that covid was in the UK by about Dec 2019.

Oh I see others have talked about december 2019 also!

Same here. Both my children are either experts at avoiding it or have had it and I haven't picked up on it. Both are in Primary School, and both their classes have had times with a large amount of cases. They were both tested with lft and pcrs during this time (were classed as close contacts) and were negative. I've also avoided it so far.

Interesting people are talking about December 2019. We had similar in Jan 2020 ish.
Saying that though my DS had something awful in March 2019 which obv wasn't covid but I'd have assumed it was if he caught it now.
Before covid I guess there were some awful virus's going around too.

My kids not had it either just constant colds.... maybe they have had it asymptomatic

There’s definitely something in your genes & susceptibility to illness. My DH & I never catch the same illnesses. It’s weird. If I catch a nasty cold from our kids, he’ll get a minor sniffle & vice versa. In 8 years together, we’ve never had the same cold. He’s also never had covid & I’ve had it twice. We didn’t isolate from each other either time, shared a bed, house, car (to the test centre) etc.. he seems really susceptible to tummy bugs, he catches every one & is really badly sick where as I manage to avoid some of them or get them more mildly. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

There was an interesting discussion about this a few days ago on radio 4. (Nick Robinson was the host). There is starting to be research about people who are not gtting it despite being in the same households, beds and closely mixing. They are testing them and (this is my lay person explanation) and they think that at some or many points in their lives these people have had sars type viruses (but not covid specifically) and they still remain a memory of this in their T cells. So the body has acquired a natural immunity to this type of sars virus or at least recognises it straight away and then fights it off.

The scientist discussing this made the point though that you never know if you are in this category without specific and targeted testing- AND that it does not mean you should not get vaccinated. But they are looking into this to see if it can be useful for creating different and ever more effective vaccines.

It might have been on Monday morning. I was sitting in the Aldi carpark listening to it so this would be circa 8.50-ish I think. Very interesting.

my dd is 13 and loads have had in her school , iv had more than a few letters shes been in close contact with someone infected , but shes not yet had it , and im a keyworker in retail and iv not yet caught it either although a few of my colleages have

I have 1 kid in secondary & 2 in primary who still havent caught it.

DH has also never had it, despite travelling into London on the tube every day (emergency services so no wfh option).

I had Alpha in Dec 2020 but nothing since either.

My family is made from covid teflon. But then, they rarely get sick anyway. One year when they were all in the same primary, the place went crazy with noro and ended up shutting early for xmas. Still nothing affected my kids. I tend to catch everything going, so its surprising that I havent had Omicron.

My office in London was wiped out by illness in Dec 2019/jan 2020. My hacking cough lasted weeks and I was exhausted. Haven’t caught covid so wonder if it was that at the time.

Interesting theories. I think I had it in March 2020, just as the schools closed. Felt dreadful, had the worst cough of my life but this was pre-testing for the non-CEV so I've never know for definite. However since then DH has had it twice, both DS's have had it and I worked through an outbreak at the office and I've never tested positive (test twice a week). I have always wondered whether I had Alpha and it has given me some sort of super immunity!

I didn't even consider dd may have had it years ago!

Back in December 2019 dd had the worst 'cold' she had ever had. She had high temp, sore throat and a terrible cough that lasted a good few weeks. She could barely move off the sofa for about a week. I'm now thinking she had covid then. Obviously this was before I knew about the virus so couldn't identify it as covid.

Saying that, dd was the only one in our household to have that particular illness. Usually we all end up catching it a week or so later but we were all unaffected. Quite strange.

One of my kids has had Covid, totally asymptomatic. The other 2 have apparently not had it, despite it being everywhere in their schools, & me & DH having had it the other week.

It has gone wild in my class at school. I now have it for the first time and I am a clinically vulnerable primary teacher who has worked throughout and been exposed a lot!

I have passed it onto my husband (sharing is caring) but then we live in a small house and he wfh so couldn't avoid each other really.

I was really starting to think either I was never going to get it even though I get everything else or LFTs didn't work for me. I have just done my day 5 test and still positive though so maybe I just got it late in the day!

I thought I must have had a subclinical (ie symptom free) case of chicken pox because I didn't come down with it when it swept round infants school, and again in junior school. Everyone else had it. Including my siblings

Then I got it a decade later when I was a teenager.

It was just one of those mysterious things.

She could be naturally immune. All diseases have certain people who just won’t be able to catch it. I don’t know if there is a test for this yet though.

Probably asymptomatic

My daughter is 11 and only just caught it first time (well i think as she's never tested pos or had symptoms before). Despite all her friends getting it and me having covid twice before. She's also never had chicken pox. Somehow managed to dodge that well lol

Even if she had it years ago, you can still recatch it. If all of the class had it then it's very likely she did too, she just was probably asymptomatic. Lateral flows don't work for everyone.

My ds didn't get it when dd had it so it is possible (unless he had it asymptomatically and the tests didn't pick it up)

I seem to have dodged chicken pox also. Despite having been put into a cot with another kid who had it as a baby (which was accepted wisdom where I am from). My Dcs both got chicken pox and I cuddled them throuhgout, so guess must have had it sub clinically also.

Before covid I guess there were some awful virus's going around too

And there still are now. Our household has all been far more ill with a recent cold than we were with covid. DC2 has still never tested positive (LFs and numerous PCRs) but has had many weeks this winter already being unwell, including temperatures, coughs, block nose, etc.

OP unless there is an underlying health condition there really is no reason to be concerned. Your child is more likely to be more unwell with some other bug this winter than covid.