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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people understand how almost impossible it is for a child to get Covid and for the adults in their household not to get it? This is how Covid spreads. If you're kid has it, you either have it or just had it. Just get yourself tested. We go to the testing place a couple blocks away whenever we are in doubt. I'm not going to subject my kid to that for every random runny nose or sneeze because even though the test itself is no big deal, getting one is a whole production and it's genuinely hard to do with a small child. I can easily wait 15 minutes and then get tested by someone in full PPE -- my 3 yr old would throw a fit at that entire outing and everyone would be miserable. We do not need to be testing small children constantly.[/quote] My 14 month old had it and nobody else got it...[/quote] Yeah, I know several kids who have had it without positive tests from parents. Not common, but not even remotely almost impossible. Also, try a different testing site if yours is hard with kids. Mine (2 and 4) actually look forward to getting tested at our pediatricians. They say it tickles, and they get lollipops. We're and out in 5 mins. It's so not a big deal for them. [/quote] Actually incredibly unlikely. The parents probably had it but didn’t test at a time when they the virus was active. The best way is to figure out when the child was exposed and then test multiple times. And it can vary by person. I know a family where they all got tested the day the learned if the exposure, and mom tested positive but dad was negative. Dad tested again three days later and was positive. They are all in the same house. Just random that the virus took longer to infect him. My philosophy is test everyone for a known exposure regardless of symptoms. But for something mild like a runny nose that could be a symptom or could be something else? DH and I test and we keep an eye on it. DH and I have been tested over a dozen times (all negative). Kid has never been tested. She also is the least likely source of infection though because DH and I have to be indoors with other people much more frequently than she does.[/quote] Why are people spreading this nonsense? Even in the same house, COVID transmission is only about 50% on average -- LESS when kids are the first infected. If your kid is going to school/has non-parental infection sources, there is no reason to think that a negative parent test necessarily means a negative kid test, especially if only the kid has symptoms.[/quote] Closer to 16 percent https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33315116/[/quote] That study is interesting. Here are the findings: Results: A total of 54 relevant studies with 77 758 participants reporting household secondary transmission were identified. Estimated household secondary attack rate was 16.6% (95% CI, 14.0%-19.3%), higher than secondary attack rates for SARS-CoV (7.5%; 95% CI, 4.8%-10.7%) and MERS-CoV (4.7%; 95% CI, 0.9%-10.7%). Household secondary attack rates were increased from symptomatic index cases (18.0%; 95% CI, 14.2%-22.1%) than from asymptomatic index cases (0.7%; 95% CI, 0%-4.9%), to adult contacts (28.3%; 95% CI, 20.2%-37.1%) than to child contacts (16.8%; 95% CI, 12.3%-21.7%), to spouses (37.8%; 95% CI, 25.8%-50.5%) than to other family contacts (17.8%; 95% CI, 11.7%-24.8%), and in households with 1 contact (41.5%; 95% CI, 31.7%-51.7%) than in households with 3 or more contacts (22.8%; 95% CI, 13.6%-33.5%). [/quote]
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