Has anyone successfully kept other kids from getting covid in the same house?
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Anonymous
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I have 3 kids - 2 vaccinated and 1 too young to be vaccinated. One of my vaccinated kids has symptoms and tested positive. The rest of the family is negative. Per preschool's guidelines, I will keep my unvaccinated preschooler home for 5 days and need a negative PCR to go back to school. My other vaccinated child can continue going to school per school guidelines of being vaccinated.
We fortunately live in a large home and every bedroom has its own bathroom. We have a big basement with its own bedroom. So far we are keeping covid child in his room. I'm thinking of letting him hang out in the basement alone. Would you rent a place and take unvaccinated child out of the house for a week? Would you continue taking unvaccinated child to activities? Can you recommend any strategies on how to not get the rest of the family covid? |
Anonymous
| Please don’t let your fear keep you from being there for your child! And I say that as someone who has been very cautious. |
Anonymous
| Just went through this in our house. It’s too late. You’ve all been exposed. Don’t keep anyone away from anyone. 75% of our house got it. Just test every day. Fwiw, our rapids showed positive until 9th and 10th day. No way will you get a negative pcr at day 5. |
Anonymous
| No, you should not take unvaccinated child to activities. They are a close contact and need to quarantine. Ie stay in your house. The vax kid can go to school, which I also don’t agree with but k do know one kid in a family who didn’t get it. |
Anonymous
| I know a family that had one child and one parent positive, one child and one parent negative. They are in an apartment, so no reasonable way to quarantine and agree with posters that you are already exposed. Isolate as a family. There seems to be a lot of variance with how this transmits, sometimes it blows through families and school classes, sometimes it seems to stay a bit localized. |
Anonymous
I am going to go against the grain and say it might be possible as we just went through this and the three kids all did not test positive right away. We think the first one got it at daycare and the second from the first and the third from the second with them each testing positive 5-7 days apart. We had NOT been quarantining them since we figured it was too late but I think if we had isolated them all the third one wouldn't have gotten it (the second might have already been exposed). The problem is you almost have to keep all three isolated from each other unless you know for sure that the two testing negative don't have it or weren't exposed- other wise one of them could be contagious but testing negative and give it to the other while you are isolating your first kid and then you went through this giant pain quarantine for nothing. We didn't take the unvaccinated or vaccinated kid to activities . It was over break so didn't have to worry about daycare/ school decisions. |
Anonymous
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Just went through this. Have the child who tested positive isolate in their room. Keep that child away from anyone unvaccinated. The unvaccinated child needs to quarantine and cannot go anywhere for 5+ days after their last contact with the child who tested positive. Anyone who is vaccinated can go about their business with masks on.
2 out of 6 got Covid in our house. |
Anonymous
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Two of my kids had it a couple of months apart. DD isolated in her room upstairs and my other daughter used our bathroom instead of their Jack and Jill bath. I was the only one in and o out of her room with a mask. Early November so not omicron.
DS’s room is in the basement and unfortunately he has to cross the living area down there to get to the bathroom so he had the basement to himself for a week, again with me going down to deliver food, etc. with a mask. At New Years so likely omicron. Nobody else in the house caught it from either of them. |
Anonymous
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One of my kids had it and the other three kids plus DH & I never tested positive or developed symptoms. All vaccinated and the 13 yr old & adults are boosted.
Positive kid mostly stayed in her room while she had symptoms, 3-4 days, and wore a KN-95 when she came downstairs. We designated separate "sick" and "healthy" bathrooms but all in all I don't think anything we did would have stopped the spread if it weren't for the vaccines and the mildness of Omicron. By the time she started coughing it would have been too late and we were probably exposed anyway. |
Anonymous
| Our 3yo has it now and there's no way to keep us apart obviously. We have a 1yo (today!) and we are just gonna ride it out. |
Anonymous
| We just went through this - one kid tested positive and the other tested negative, same day, both PCR tests. We kept them both home and I'm glad we did because the second one tested positive a week later. Honestly though, we didn't try to keep them separate because we knew we'd quarantine all of us if one tested positive so it was actually easier if we all just got it at the same time. |
Anonymous
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We had one asymptomatic kid test positive in a pre-travel screening - and the other 4 of us tested negative. It did not spread in our house.
The only thing I can now guess - is that my kids who had it - was vaccinated and asymptomatic and I guess he had a low viral load and wasn't a super spreader. And that it says more about him - than it does about us. I had hoped we had super immunity since we didn't get it but the other 4 of us are probably in the same situation as before - didn't have it, and could get it. We are all vaxxed fwiw. |
Anonymous
| Why can’t the other kids just hold their breath, like they do in California ? |
Anonymous
| Pre-vaccine one of my kids had asymptomatic COVID and we didn't isolate from her at all. None of the rest of us got it. |
Anonymous
| Why would you do that to your family absent medical reasons? |