Have your kids (in school) gotten covid yet?

[Kimkimba]

We cyber school but my dd15 was on team gymnastics and now coaches gymnastics to 4 to 6 year olds four days a week.

We (5 of us) all got Covid from a Judas Priest concert in the spring.

We are boosted twice (my youngest just has had one booster due to her age).

 

[Skippy918]

My daughter caught the delta variant in sept 2021 before she was eligible for the vaccine. My son never caught it even with the huge omicron wave that hit last January.

 

[mumto3girls]

My youngest was in middle school and caught it December 2020. They were not in in-person school at the time. She got it from a friend.

Middle DD is in college now (freshman) and is the only one in our household that has not tested positive. Our schools were fairly strict and did not have full time in person school for over a year. They masked last school year but are not masking now. She does not mask at college. She has been symptomatic several times, but has always tested negative—some home tests, some clinic/doctor office tests.

Oldest was in college during all of Covid. She just had it for the first time this fall. Her campus masked until this school year.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I work with quite a few nurses who have not had it yet. I myself didn’t have it (despite working in a Covid ICU and regularly caring for infected patients) until my DS brought it home work this past October. He thought he had seasonal allergies from being out on the golf course. (Should’ve insisted he test then!) Came home super sick two days later and tested highly positive right away. By that time, we were all infected at home (two of us likely from drives in the car with him) and all started testing positive over the next few days. My case was fairly mild, but I got a rebound case after taking paxlovid, and was really sick the second time around.

We were at Disney over Christmas and I was worried we’d get it, from reports here of people coming home sick, but we didn’t, thankfully - and this despite someone coughing in front of us the whole flight home. (We did wear masks.)

I think DS had it in Nov/Dec 2019. He had all the symptoms, even loss of smell and taste, and kept going to the doctor’s but they kept saying he just had a virus. Wound up hospitalized with kidney failure and chest XRay showed a previously unknown pneumonia (among other problems). We might’ve all had it then and not known (hence some immunity).

With home testing today, sometimes it takes several tests to get a positive. One and done often isn’t enough if it’s early in the course of the illness. If symptomatic, it’s a kindness to isolate, or at least wear a mask or TRY to cover your mouth when coughing and sneezing. I saw so many people just coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths down at Disney, it was really disheartening. I’d think we would’ve learned something from all of this.

I know it’s hard to miss work and school, but it seems like consequences for that are relaxed a bit when it comes to illness. (Maybe not in some places - what are your experiences?)

I know quite a few people who never had Covid before who picked it up this fall, also. Some of the newer variants are super contagious, but fortunately, don’t really cause severe illness.

 

[mrs. magoo]

So my younger daughter has tested positive 4 times - yes she is vaccinated and boosted but seems to catch Covid every time it is around - she is sick for about 24 hours and usually feels fine by day 2 or 3. Her main symptoms every time are a sore throat and stuffy nose.

My youngest son has never tested positive officially. He has been involved in multiple outbreaks on his football team and still has never tested positive.

 

[holden]

DD15 has not had Covid yet. She's vaccinated and boosted with all boosters. DH, DD20 and I have all had it. We are also vaxed and boosted.

 

[disneychrista]

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.

I truly believe some just seem to be less susceptible. Both my daughter & I have escaped getting it, despite being exposed at work.

 

[mjkacmom]

Dd19 - 4x
ds19 - 2x
dd21 - 3x
ds24 - 2x
dd26 - 0x
DH - 2x
me - 1x

All vaccinated/boosted.

 

[Colleen27]

I know it’s hard to miss work and school, but it seems like consequences for that are relaxed a bit when it comes to illness. (Maybe not in some places - what are your experiences?)

Our school system resumed the regular attendance policy - automatic loss of credit for more than 10 days of absences in a semester - this year. Absences with a doctor's note don't count against the total but in a working class community not many people have the kind of insurance/money that supports doctor's notes for illnesses that don't require medical treatment, so predictably, people are back to sending their kids to school if they're "just a little" sick. A couple of DD's friends came back a day or two after positive covid tests (home tests, which don't qualify for a quarantine exemption under school policy) because they were no longer feverish and handling their other symptoms well enough to get through the day. One got sent home for coughing so hard he puked in class and was back the next day; he's one that has had covid twice this year so even though he's an all-A student he's on the brink of losing credit for the semester.

It is really no wonder that covid, strep, flu and some unspecified respiratory crud that tests negative for all of the above have all run wild this school year. But this is what the people around here wanted, a full no-exceptions return to normal, so this is what we've got.

 

[WDWDancer]

We have 6 yr old twins that have medical issues; they have never shown positive on PCR testing probably tested about 15 times each due to exposure, symptoms etc.

They are not vaxxed

However, when we've had antibody bloodwork done it has been positive so they have had it at some point and continue to confuse their doctors.

 

[Keeblerelf928]

We all got it in Disney. Honestly, would have had no idea had the rest of us not gotten sick because the 7 year old had 0 symptoms. We only tested her and her sister because literally every single one of the rest of us were sick. So far she hasn't contracted it in school that we know of, but we don't go out of our way to test her either.

 

[tvguy]

However, when we've had antibody bloodwork done it has been positive so they have had it at some point and continue to confuse their doctors.

Sounds like my body, it is at war with my Doctor.
He says lose 15 pounds and we can take you off one of your blood pressure medicines. I lose 50 pounds and he had to put me on an additional blood pressure medicine.
My bad cholesterol was too high, and my good cholesterol too low. He put me on a cholesterol drug that raised my bad and only lowered the good.
My blood sugar was too high and he put me on some heavily advertised (read that as EXPENSIVE) Type 2 diabetes drug and my blood sugar is up 20 points.

 

[Kitty 34]

My grandson who is 5 and in kindergarten has been sick with what my son and DIL thought was the stomach flu over the past week. They actually all had what they thought was the stomach bug right around New Year's Day. Well my son just called and says that he ( the grandson) tested positive today at the doctor's for Covid and Strep throat. The only reason they took him to the doctor was he had still been complaining of a tummy ache since his "stomach flu".

The doctor is treating him for the strep throat but not Covid. He has been at school this whole time except for last week when he was vomiting for two days so I imagine he has infected many with Covid!! Last year my grandson, also tested positive for Covid but his symptoms then were a fever and runny nose. Weird how Covid symptoms have changed.

 

[OneOftheB's]

We all got Covid over Christmas 2021 from my sister in law. She works from home and masked routinely when out, so who knows who infected her (my brother & nephew also got it).

My son hasn't worn a mask at school since Fall of 2021, is vaccinated (but not boosted) and was surrounded by C+ students and teachers and never showed symptoms or tested positive until we were all sick.

My daughter's school masked until January of 2022, she has not shown symptoms nor tested positive (other that when we all had it at Christmas) and is not vaccinated, per the recommendations of our pediatrician.

The schools around me are treating it as a cold at this point-stay home until you are symptom free for 24+ hours.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Full time student, no mask, no COVID. We've tested many times due to possible infection...always negative.