Have your kids (in school) gotten covid yet?

[DLgal]

Simple question: how many kids out there attending school in person have managed to stay covid free?

 

[DLgal]

I feel like my kids are unicorns. 16 and 18, in school full time since fall 2020. No masks since March 2021 except inside doctors offices as required in our state. They still have not contracted covid.

They have been exposed dozens of times. Nothing. Not even when it was me or my DH who they were directly exposed to, for a prolonged time.

They both caught the flu A a few months ago. They have had a few colds/other viruses (never covid, per PCR tests).

I literally don't know anyone whose kids have not yet had covid. My kids are the only ones in my circle. I find it kind of fascinating, but also very odd.

 

[Disneylover99]

My daughter’s best friend has not had it (to her knowledge).
She’s pretty much the only person we know who hasn’t had it at this point.

 

[kcool]

My son (18-sr in high school) has not had it to our knowledge. He hasn’t masked since last March at school. He was exposed to the person who my husband and I got it from. Was heavily exposed to me and my husband (we all wore masks in the house and opened windows, but live in 1,000 sq ft home with 1 bathroom, we could only do so much). He was then exposed to the person my older son got it from and then my older son. I told this to my dr and she said he most likely has had it, but was asymptomatic. We did test him each time he was exposed. Who knows! He is vaxxed and boosted, but we all were.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

My kids brought it home from camp back in the summer. Almost everyone I know has had it at least once.

 

[DLgal]

My son (18-sr in high school) has not had it to our knowledge. He hasn’t masked since last March at school. He was exposed to the person who my husband and I got it from. Was heavily exposed to me and my husband (we all wore masks in the house and opened windows, but live in 1,000 sq ft home with 1 bathroom, we could only do so much). He was then exposed to the person my older son got it from and then my older son. I told this to my dr and she said he most likely has had it, but was asymptomatic. We did test him each time he was exposed. Who knows! He is vaxxed and boosted, but we all were.

I suppose asymptomatic infections are a possibility, but that would also be quite odd if BOTH of them ended up with asymptomatic infections since my husband and I both had symptoms when we got sick (separately). I mean, they do have our genetic make up...

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

My GS tested positive last year Jan (2022). Myself and my daughter were vaccinated and boosted, my husband not. We all tested days later and we all were negative and remained symptom free.

 

[DLgal]

This came up over the break when we did a zoom call with my husband's aunt and uncle and they revealed that they have been nowhere besides the doctor and grocery stores since March 2020 and were bragging about how they still haven't had covid. And I was like "my kids have still not had it either and they have been going EVERYWHERE without masks for a year and a half." They couldn't believe it.

 

[soccerdad72]

My older son (22) tested positive for Covid right before we was set to start his spring semester last year, so it was not during school when he contracted it.

My younger son (17) has never officially tested positive, although he admitted months after the fact last year that he suspects he had Covid, but ignored the symptoms (mainly loss of taste and smell) because he didn't want to miss games during his soccer season.

 

[leahgoogle]

Two of my kids had symptomatic covid and one (my youngest DD who was 11 at the time) was closely exposed by positive family members and never showed symptoms. Same for my nephew who was 6 years old. I think I read that a study showed 7% of people exposed will never show symptoms. We never tested her to see if she was asymptomatically positive while we were.

 

[Lumpy1106]

I think we've all forgotten how bad the "common cold" was back in the day. By that I mean, my kids have been sick but we've only tested them once, and that was because DD8 got strep throat and tested positive when she went to see the doctor. The strep throat was worse, and she felt great once the antibiotics kicked in. She still had to stay out of school for a week because she tested positive for COVID though. Other than that, sure, they may have had it but we didn't test because it was so mild it was not worth mentioning. I personally have not been sick enough since the start to even consider getting tested. You read that right - I've never even been tested.

We played along, but enough is enough - time to move along. Sure, dump the money into VAX research so we can keep ahead of the next bad thing, but China is now showing us that the shutdowns ultimately do more harm than good. Sometimes you just have to take the punch and roll with it.

 

[leahgoogle]

I feel like my kids are unicorns. 16 and 18, in school full time since fall 2020. No masks since March 2021 except inside doctors offices as required in our state. They still have not contracted covid.

They have been exposed dozens of times. Nothing. Not even when it was me or my DH who they were directly exposed to, for a prolonged time.

They both caught the flu A a few months ago. They have had a few colds/other viruses (never covid, per PCR tests).

I literally don't know anyone whose kids have not yet had covid. My kids are the only ones in my circle. I find it kind of fascinating, but also very odd.

My youngest daughter (12) and nephew (8) have been closely exposed multiple times and have never showed symptoms. The rest of our families have had it twice (original and omicron variants). I have heard of that happening. It's a weird virus for sure.

 

[sam_gordon]

I suppose asymptomatic infections are a possibility, but that would also be quite odd if BOTH of them ended up with asymptomatic infections since my husband and I both had symptoms when we got sick (separately). I mean, they do have our genetic make up...

Well, you don't have to be fully asymptomatic... when *I* tested positive (right after our cruise), it was literally no worse than a bad cold. If it was just about anything less, I wouldn't have even tested. On our cruise was myself, DW, DS, DS's GF, DD, and DD's friend. I was the only one showing enough symptoms to test.

 

[tvguy]

Neither of my Granddaughters has contracted covid, but both got RSV in November. They go to private school in Los Angeles County where masks are still required.
Don't want to jinx it but no covid at all in our family of 7, but we are religious mask wearers and hand washers. My daughter has had multiple exposures at work, but as she puts it, "her immune system isn't going to put up with covid"

 

[DLgal]

Well, you don't have to be fully asymptomatic... when *I* tested positive (right after our cruise), it was literally no worse than a bad cold. If it was just about anything less, I wouldn't have even tested. On our cruise was myself, DW, DS, DS's GF, DD, and DD's friend. I was the only one showing enough symptoms to test.

Oh trust me, my kids don't just suck it up when they are sick. Well, one doesn't. He is hypersensitive to a lot of things and is an absolute drama queen about ANY symptoms. He wouldn't even let a scratchy throat go unmentioned.

 

[tzolkin]

I suppose asymptomatic infections are a possibility, but that would also be quite odd if BOTH of them ended up with asymptomatic infections since my husband and I both had symptoms when we got sick (separately). I mean, they do have our genetic make up...

Maybe because they're younger and/or healthier? Honestly, at this point, I just assume everyone has had it, they just may not have had symptoms or taken a test at the right time to know.

I traveled to visit extended family last year before Christmas and got sick when I came home, so I took a test so I could let my family know if it was Covid or not. First test was negative, second positive. A few days later my husband was miserably sick and also tested positive.

Our two teenagers also got sick at the same time as my husband so we assume they had Covid, but didn't bother to test. For them it was very mild so I probably would not have thought they had Covid if the rest of us weren't already sick at the same time.

My older daughter was here for Christmas at the same time that I was ill and she never showed any symptoms at all. She did test a week or so later out of curiosity and it was negative. She is the only person I know personally who has never had Covid, but she probably has but just didn't have symptoms.

 

[GreatLakes]

My son caught COVID from my wife. He was completely asymptomatic and we wouldn't have even tested him if we didn't have to due to my wife's positive test.

I suspect a lot more people have had COVID than know about it because they either didn't show any symptoms or didn't get tested and assumed (read:hoped) it was just a cold.

 

[DLgal]

Maybe because they're younger and/or healthier? Honestly, at this point, I just assume everyone has had it, they just may not have had symptoms or taken a test at the right time to know.

I traveled to visit extended family last year before Christmas and got sick when I came home, so I took a test so I could let my family know if it was Covid or not. First test was negative, second positive. A few days later my husband was miserably sick and also tested positive.

Our two teenagers also got sick at the same time as my husband so we assume they had Covid, but didn't bother to test. For them it was very mild so I probably would not have thought they had Covid if the rest of us weren't already sick at the same time.

My older daughter was here for Christmas at the same time that I was ill and she never showed any symptoms at all. She did test a week or so later out of curiosity and it was negative. She is the only person I know personally who has never had Covid, but she probably has but just didn't have symptoms.

Like I said, we have tested our kids via PCR EVERY time anyone in our house had any symptoms at all. They have each had like 10 PCR tests. Always done 5 days after exposure or start of symptoms. All negative. My husband has been living part time (3 nights a week) with a close friend the last 2.5 years and this friend is high risk and is essentially a shut in since the pandemic began and we did NOT want to expose her and get her sick. She has not yet had covid either, so our efforts paid off. I'm certain my kids haven't had covid at all.

 

[RangerPooh]

One child got Covid last summer at NOAC (a scouting event), the other three have not ha Covid. Two of them were also at NOAC and miraculously did not catch it.

 

[Colleen27]

We made it to this fall, but it is rampant at our school - some of DD's friends have had it twice already this school year, and there was one week where almost half of the 50-odd kids involved in the winter play were out sick with a handful of them testing positive. DD14 escaped that round but she'd just had it a few weeks earlier.

So far, everyone in my household has tested positive once. DH over the summer - he and MIL both got sick after coming home from our big family trip- and DD14 and I this fall because she's a cuddler when sick and does so love sharing her germs with me.