Could my child really have covid twice in under 2 months?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN, CMSRN that has been working on a COVID Floor in a major teaching hospital for the last 2+ years. No...we KNOW there is an absolute cross variant immunity for at least 3 months. 9months for most healthy people. You CAN test positive for COVID for 60days after initial infection. If you child is normal and healthy its probably one of the 8-10 colds children get each year.

COVID is an airborne virus. At this point it is everywhere. Nothing short of a respirator or properly fitting N95 mask (worn for 2hrs and then discarded) & eye protection will do any good. Get your shot & get on with normal life.

What you KNOW is many months old. The wide spread cross variant immunity existed but isn't so widespread anymore.
And when you say "CAN test positive for 60 days", you're either talking about about PCR or confusing the information on antigen and PCR tests.

It isn't helpful to tell people that a KN95 without eye protection won't do them any good at the supermarket or museum. That's the same kind of nonsense as when RNs were screeching that madks were useless without the training to donn/doff them and that $25 pulse oximeters were pointless.
Good masks help a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. DS is fully vaxxed. I'm just mad. We played by the rules, it clearly came from classmates the first time around and not one person fessed up to having it earlier or getting it after a birthday party hours before DS learned he had it in which a number of kids, not mine, were unmasked.

And now same deal. Tons of kids too sick to play games at swim practice or eat treats at other neighborhood events but their parents swear they don't have it .... just keep infecting everyone else.

I think you will feel more at peace if you just look at illness as a random occurrence and don't try to assign blame. There is really no way to know where your kid got it from.

This. SO many kids are asymptomatic, or have minor, transient symptoms. When my 8 year old had it, he felt nauseated one morning, which lasted a few hours and which is not uncommon for him (his siblings, yes, but he has a sensitive stomach). I wouldn't have thought to test him but DH had it at the same time. Now, I wouldn't have sent the 8 year old to school that day, but I also wouldn't have kept him out for the entire week after, considering that he was bouncing off the walls the entire time.

We're more than two years into this thing. We can't keep scolding people who don't prioritize COVID above all else, all the time.

That's really selfish to send a positive kid to school because you cannot handle them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN, CMSRN that has been working on a COVID Floor in a major teaching hospital for the last 2+ years. No...we KNOW there is an absolute cross variant immunity for at least 3 months. 9months for most healthy people. You CAN test positive for COVID for 60days after initial infection. If you child is normal and healthy its probably one of the 8-10 colds children get each year.

COVID is an airborne virus. At this point it is everywhere. Nothing short of a respirator or properly fitting N95 mask (worn for 2hrs and then discarded) & eye protection will do any good. Get your shot & get on with normal life.

What you KNOW is many months old. The wide spread cross variant immunity existed but isn't so widespread anymore.
And when you say "CAN test positive for 60 days", you're either talking about about PCR or confusing the information on antigen and PCR tests.

It isn't helpful to tell people that a KN95 without eye protection won't do them any good at the supermarket or museum. That's the same kind of nonsense as when RNs were screeching that madks were useless without the training to donn/doff them and that $25 pulse oximeters were pointless.
Good masks help a lot.

They mean PCRs, obviously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think you will feel more at peace if you just look at illness as a random occurrence and don't try to assign blame. There is really no way to know where your kid got it from.

This. SO many kids are asymptomatic, or have minor, transient symptoms. When my 8 year old had it, he felt nauseated one morning, which lasted a few hours and which is not uncommon for him (his siblings, yes, but he has a sensitive stomach). I wouldn't have thought to test him but DH had it at the same time. Now, I wouldn't have sent the 8 year old to school that day, but I also wouldn't have kept him out for the entire week after, considering that he was bouncing off the walls the entire time.

We're more than two years into this thing. We can't keep scolding people who don't prioritize COVID above all else, all the time.

That's really selfish to send a positive kid to school because you cannot handle them.

I think you misread - I don't think PP sent their kid to school after the positive test. They were saying if DH hadn't had COVID at the same time they would have assumed it was kid's normal GI issues and sent him back to school after one day home. With COVID, they had to keep him home even though he was "bouncing off the walls the entire time".

[Anonymous]

Yes, definitely.

My best friend has it again for the second time. She and her whole family had it in mid-May and now have it again. Well, 2 out of the 3 have it. The third was on a business trip and didn't have the exposure time so he might be in the clear.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think you will feel more at peace if you just look at illness as a random occurrence and don't try to assign blame. There is really no way to know where your kid got it from.

This. SO many kids are asymptomatic, or have minor, transient symptoms. When my 8 year old had it, he felt nauseated one morning, which lasted a few hours and which is not uncommon for him (his siblings, yes, but he has a sensitive stomach). I wouldn't have thought to test him but DH had it at the same time. Now, I wouldn't have sent the 8 year old to school that day, but I also wouldn't have kept him out for the entire week after, considering that he was bouncing off the walls the entire time.

We're more than two years into this thing. We can't keep scolding people who don't prioritize COVID above all else, all the time.

That's really selfish to send a positive kid to school because you cannot handle them.

I think you misread - I don't think PP sent their kid to school after the positive test. They were saying if DH hadn't had COVID at the same time they would have assumed it was kid's normal GI issues and sent him back to school after one day home. With COVID, they had to keep him home even though he was "bouncing off the walls the entire time".

When you purposely don't test, its pretty terrible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN, CMSRN that has been working on a COVID Floor in a major teaching hospital for the last 2+ years. No...we KNOW there is an absolute cross variant immunity for at least 3 months. 9months for most healthy people. You CAN test positive for COVID for 60days after initial infection. If you child is normal and healthy its probably one of the 8-10 colds children get each year.

COVID is an airborne virus. At this point it is everywhere. Nothing short of a respirator or properly fitting N95 mask (worn for 2hrs and then discarded) & eye protection will do any good. Get your shot & get on with normal life.

What you KNOW is many months old. The wide spread cross variant immunity existed but isn't so widespread anymore.
And when you say "CAN test positive for 60 days", you're either talking about about PCR or confusing the information on antigen and PCR tests.

It isn't helpful to tell people that a KN95 without eye protection won't do them any good at the supermarket or museum. That's the same kind of nonsense as when RNs were screeching that madks were useless without the training to donn/doff them and that $25 pulse oximeters were pointless.
Good masks help a lot.

Being an RN doesn’t make you an epidemiologist. The information you posted was true for Alpha and Delta and is not true for Omicron. We’ve known this for months. Telling people to just get on with their live and unmask is not sound advice. Long COVID is a serious concern and willingly courting reinfections is very unwise. Why would you subject your children to possible long term disability, just so you could live in a pretend normal?

[Anonymous]

Yes, this is absolutely 100% possible with Omicron. The old "rules" have changed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. DS is fully vaxxed. I'm just mad. We played by the rules, it clearly came from classmates the first time around and not one person fessed up to having it earlier or getting it after a birthday party hours before DS learned he had it in which a number of kids, not mine, were unmasked.

And now same deal. Tons of kids too sick to play games at swim practice or eat treats at other neighborhood events but their parents swear they don't have it .... just keep infecting everyone else.

We. Are. All. Going. To. Get. This.

That's. Not. A. Reason. To. Get. Lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work on your child's immune system.

Nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an RN, CMSRN that has been working on a COVID Floor in a major teaching hospital for the last 2+ years. No...we KNOW there is an absolute cross variant immunity for at least 3 months. 9months for most healthy people. You CAN test positive for COVID for 60days after initial infection. If you child is normal and healthy its probably one of the 8-10 colds children get each year.

COVID is an airborne virus. At this point it is everywhere. Nothing short of a respirator or properly fitting N95 mask (worn for 2hrs and then discarded) & eye protection will do any good. Get your shot & get on with normal life.

Your mixing license should be revoked. Stop spreading lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS had covid in late May, he now, 57 days later, has a bad cough/runny nose.

DH tested him and there is a faint line. Could this really be 2 cases in under 2 months? He is home from camp today, pediatrician said couldn't give clear cut guidance until he is seen by a doctor.

No fever.

I assume he wasn't vaccinated and boosted? I haven't heard of this with the vaccine esp if they have had 3-4

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup. DS is fully vaxxed. I'm just mad. We played by the rules, it clearly came from classmates the first time around and not one person fessed up to having it earlier or getting it after a birthday party hours before DS learned he had it in which a number of kids, not mine, were unmasked.

And now same deal. Tons of kids too sick to play games at swim practice or eat treats at other neighborhood events but their parents swear they don't have it .... just keep infecting everyone else.

I think you will feel more at peace if you just look at illness as a random occurrence and don't try to assign blame. There is really no way to know where your kid got it from.

I think -you- will feel more at peace if you convince everyone around you to not try to assign blame, since you so don't want to ever be blamed for any of your YOLO selfish decisions, plus you're not about to let your child miss one of their [whatever] class, absolutely not!
So instead, let's try to create this imaginary gorgeous outfit for the naked Emperor where there is no blame, no selfish irresponsible behavior, just random COVID.

PP you are replying to. I am actually fairly Covid-cautious, but I don't think that has anything to do with what I said. But I realize that illness in general is a risk we take from being around people. It's airborne and easy to get. You could screen for symptoms and rapid test everyone before an indoor event and it could still get in. It's no one's fault and everyone assumes the risk by going to the event.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS had covid in late May, he now, 57 days later, has a bad cough/runny nose.

DH tested him and there is a faint line. Could this really be 2 cases in under 2 months? He is home from camp today, pediatrician said couldn't give clear cut guidance until he is seen by a doctor.

No fever.

I assume he wasn't vaccinated and boosted? I haven't heard of this with the vaccine esp if they have had 3-4

The BA.5 variant is evading the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think you will feel more at peace if you just look at illness as a random occurrence and don't try to assign blame. There is really no way to know where your kid got it from.

This. SO many kids are asymptomatic, or have minor, transient symptoms. When my 8 year old had it, he felt nauseated one morning, which lasted a few hours and which is not uncommon for him (his siblings, yes, but he has a sensitive stomach). I wouldn't have thought to test him but DH had it at the same time. Now, I wouldn't have sent the 8 year old to school that day, but I also wouldn't have kept him out for the entire week after, considering that he was bouncing off the walls the entire time.

We're more than two years into this thing. We can't keep scolding people who don't prioritize COVID above all else, all the time.

That's really selfish to send a positive kid to school because you cannot handle them.

I think you misread - I don't think PP sent their kid to school after the positive test. They were saying if DH hadn't had COVID at the same time they would have assumed it was kid's normal GI issues and sent him back to school after one day home. With COVID, they had to keep him home even though he was "bouncing off the walls the entire time".

When you purposely don't test, its pretty terrible.

I'm the earlier PP - we DID test DS. And kept him home, even though, yes, he was completely symptom-free and energetic after the first few hours post-positive test.

If you think it's reasonable for every parent to test every kid for every random symptom, you're (1) not living in reality and (2) prioritizing COVID too highly. We can "handle" our kids fine, but kids need to be in school. They already missed too much of their educations in MoCo thanks to MCPS' batshit hysteria. I'm not ignoring mental health, education, socialization, and on and on indefinitely. You can if you want to.

Again: if my kids are sick with something like a fever, vomiting, body aches, generally feeling sick, I keep them home. As I did before COVID and will continue to do. If they have a slight runny nose and are otherwise fine, they're going.