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Is it possible not to get covid when the rest of the family has it?

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EatYourFive · 16/03/2022 09:34

Sorry probably been asked before but just wondering if anyone has been spared covid when the rest of the household have it?

DD1 got it from school but recovered quickly, we pretty much isolated her as soon as she had it. DD2 then got it but it was impossible to isolate her as she's only little and she was actually really poorly so both DH and I were very much exposed when looking after her. I tested positive a few days later after having had symptoms for quite a few days. DH who is vulnerable still hasn't tested positive and has no symptoms and it's been almost two weeks now since our eldest first had symptoms.

Always thought DH would be the first one to get it as his immune system is compromised and he usually gets every bug going, and for his sake we have been really careful for the last two years.

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marqueses · 17/03/2022 14:33

Unless it's changed recently household transmission has been reported as being around 50%.

Arcadia · 17/03/2022 16:03

Me, from DD and DP, but I caught it a month later probably in London. Go figure! At least I got the house to myself during the day!

BogRollBOGOF · 17/03/2022 16:06

DS1 has never tested positive.
I am suspicious about the illness he had in Dec '19 that had a lot of Covid-like properties...
DS2 has tested positive twice. He had it last week. DS1 has the same symptoms but is not producing even a squinter of a line.

DH dodged it at Christmas when I had it despite sharing a bed, but he's had it this time and it's had him in bed a few days.
Yet still DS1 tests negative.

libby09 · 17/03/2022 20:58

I've had it twice and neither my partner or son caught it from me. So strange.

Hospedia · 17/03/2022 21:12

DS has had it and none of the rest of us caught it. He's on day 8 and I thought I'd caught it as I've had a runny nose and sore throat for the last 2-3 days but LFTs and a PCR have both been negative so I think I have the cold DD has had rather than covid (she has also had negative LFTs and PCR).

I am suspicious about the illness he had in Dec '19 that had a lot of Covid-like properties

I had that too! It was absolutely rife, schools around here were having tomclpse for deepmcleaning and due to lack of staff. DD got sent home with it and in her fairly small school (approx 120 kids on the roll) she was the 20-something'th to be sent home just that day, they were dropping like flies. DH was on round after round of steroids for four weeks and the GP kept saying he could hear something in his lungs but it wasn't a chest infection and offered a chest xray if it was no better after the last round of steroids. I caught it at the same time he was ill and had to ring my mum to take the DC overnight as neither of us was fit to look after them then the cough lingered on for a good 7-8 weeks afterwards, I've never been so ill with a bug before or since. I have my suspicions too bit I guess we'll never know.

Squidthing · 17/03/2022 21:15

I managed not to get it when my family had it and were coughing everywhere but then got it from colleague a few weeks later. The colleague didn't even have any symptoms.

Daqqe · 17/03/2022 21:31

Yes three times!

I had Covid in Dec 20 & Oct 21 .. I didn’t isolate at all as I have young children, including a baby. Neither DD’s caught covid from me. We PCR tested a couple times during each infection & daily flowed during the second. My husband didn’t catch it either but I did keep more of a distance with him. Still shared a bed though..

DD1 has just had covid this month. She literally sneezed in my mouth 😷 & I haven’t caught it. DH & DD2 have also not caught it despite being coughed all over, bed sharing, food sharing (the kids).. we did two lots of PCRs & daily lateral flows. No symptoms at any point.

Bit baffling really 🤷🏼‍♀️

proseghost · 17/03/2022 22:10

How are people still asking this after over two years?

Hospedia · 17/03/2022 22:21

Because its the covid board and the thread is about whether or not people caught it from other people in their household, why would it be a source of confusion to find people discussing exactly that? The clue is in the thread title.

Ellie5341 · 17/03/2022 22:47

No.

I had it twice and I didn't stay in one room but moved around the house/ food/ dc as normal and no one caught it- tested them every day.

Davros · 17/03/2022 23:58

I didn't get it when DH and DD had it. I'm CEV and have had four jabs

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EatYourFive · 18/03/2022 08:07

I asked about this because the current variant(s) is much more contagious amongst the vaccinated than delta, and certainly spreads a lot faster the strain we had two years ago.
Furthermore, as I mentioned in my previous posts, my OH is vulnerable with a weak immune system and for this reason we have been very careful over the last two years; I always assumed he would be the first one to catch it. I therefore find it perplexing that he has evaded it with the level of exposure he's had in the last two weeks.

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Frazzled2207 · 18/03/2022 08:12

Definitely. DS2 shared a room with poorly DS1 and didn’t get it but I do wonder if he had previously had it without realising.

My friend has a CEV husband undergoing cancer treatment. Everyone else got it but he missed it. In that case he was banished to the spare room at the first sign of his daughter getting it so a bit different.

Every single family I know at school has had it. It seems to be the usual patterns that 2 or 3 people in the household go on to get it but that 1 or 2 miss out.

gettingolderbutcooler · 18/03/2022 08:16

Yes

marqueses · 18/03/2022 08:20

@Hospedia

Actually the thread title asks if it's possible not what happened to other people so it's understandable that @proseghost might wonder how everyone doesn't know that

I would have thought that everyone know a family where someone in the house didn't catch it by now?

stuffnthings · 18/03/2022 08:45

I've been 'exposed' 3 times in our household over the last year and a bit, so would've been alpha, delta and omicron. No preventative measures were taken at all due to young DC and I've not had it.

Anecdotally I know of a few other families where one parent has not got it despite the rest of the family having covid.

Hospedia · 18/03/2022 12:59

So today I tested positive but I'm feeling 100% better

In my earlier post I mentioned I had mild cold-like symptoms but was testing negative so I thought I had DD's cold rather than DS's covid. DH tested positive this morning so I did a test too and it's now positive however I no longer have cold-like symptoms and feel normal/fine so while I was mildly ill I was negative and now I'm better I'm positive.

Lilaclavenders · 18/03/2022 14:06

If you're vaccinated and boosted then of course you could avoid catching covid.

I was exposed by 3 family members including sharing a bed with positive partner and never tested positive.

ladygindiva · 18/03/2022 14:09

Dd1 came down with it 8th March, dd2 9th, myself Wednesday 16th. Now on 18th March dp has yet to get it.

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 18/03/2022 14:11

4 of us in the house, my child tested positive, none of the rest did. I didn't change anything, continued to hug him etc as normal.

Jules912 · 18/03/2022 14:13

@Hospedia

So today I tested positive but I'm feeling 100% better

It's not impossible you got a cold then Covid or both at the same time.

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