Child covid negative parents positive

[littlese]

My husband and I are covid positive but DS is not. Would you still send him in to nursery? His nursery had an outbreak of covid last week so we suspect we caught it off him. Older DS also tested positive so will keep him at home

@littlese

My husband and I are covid positive but DS is not. Would you still send him in to nursery? His nursery had an outbreak of covid last week so we suspect we caught it off him. Older DS also tested positive so will keep him at home

This is a very tricky one. When DH was positive he isolated from us and so I sent DD to nursery for one day and then had a non working day. On the morning of the day following the non working day I had a terrible sore throat but negative LFT. I kept DD off nursery regardless and DH looked after her mostly whilst I worked (he was feeling much better). Now I have positive LFT DD is still home with me until she tests negative and I do - I won't send her in as nursery are already struggling with covid absence and I don't know the vulnerability status of the children / staff at her nursery (and any more absence could push them over the edge with closing). How will you get your DC there if you are both positive?

We caught Covid whilst DC were testing negative - it can have only come from them so we treated them both as positive (it was easier to keep both than just 1 off school). A lot of children don’t test positive even when they are.
I then did LFTs to check they were OK to go out this weekend (without us, we’re still positive) and one came up still faintly positive. So we were right to treat as positive - it’s just the tests didn’t pick it up early on (though they were still contagious despite negative LFT)
Has your DS shown any signs of being ill? (including slight headache or cold symptoms, etc)

As your home anyway I would keep him with you

I would keep them at home if you're at home with the older one. They're only young if nursery age so if they start to feel I'll they'd rather be at home anyway. Much kinder to the nursery staff just in case.

I sent mine to nursery as I felt so unwell and she was testing negative, I couldn't look after her properly at home.

Younger DS was ill last week (fever, cough, etc) but tested negative all week but back to normal now so we suspect we got it from him - half of the nursery kids and staff got it last week.

We've sent him in as we have to work and it's impossible with him at home