I’ll try to be brief but I don’t want to drip feed.
DM was visiting us last weekend/early week. During that time her partner returned home from an event and started feeling ill. He tested positive weds.
as we are all due to leave together on a big family holiday overseas on sun 31st, they together decided not to put her in the position of risking getting it and she would sit it out at ours for a while and not return home. She’s had TB as a child and her lungs aren’t great so she really wants to avoid.
in the meantime her partner declines, and was admitted to hospital Friday. He’s much better already. HOWEVER the HCPs will not test him now, despite him being in an isolation ward.
He has asked them of their opinion on when he won’t be contagious any more, and they keep repeating ‘probably 5 days, maybe a week, for others longer’. he will likely be discharged tomorrow.
in the meantime DM is still here and going mad. She doesn’t want to make the long trek home only for him to be discharged tomorrow, and she’ll have to trek back again to avoid.
but she is desperate to go home. She is also very desperate not to catch it with a week left till we fly. This holiday has been booked since 2019 and postponed 4 times.
so, when is she safe to go back? Day 7? Please someone help us work out when the risk will be gone. When DH had it and segregated from us (Nov 21) the guidance was 7 days unless he got 2 cleaner negs in the meantime.