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To add an antidotal datapoint for the UK, 23 of the 35 kids in my daughters (7yo) school year tested positive for covid since last Monday. Both teachers and the

To add an antidotal datapoint for the UK, 23 of the 35 kids in my daughters (7yo) school year tested positive for covid since last Monday. Both teachers and their two substitutes have also tested positive. I believe we are one of the worst hit years in the school but the others aren't that far behind. My daughter tested positive today. I believe the majority of parents are testing their kids with LFTs daily. Until now we had maybe had 2-3 in total all pandemic in the year group. The good news is it doesn't seem to be affecting parents much, even siblings don't seem to be necessarily going positive. At the rate its blowing through our school/town right now I would expect us here to be well past the worst of it in about three weeks.

wefarrell 5y ago
Omicron is less likely to show up on rapid tests and maybe there's a discrepancy in that tendency between adults and children. My wife and I got it on Christmas from my family. She, I, and all of my family members have had three vaccine doses. All of my rapid tests were negative but my PCR was positive.
- samwillis 5y ago
  I believe you are right, I think the only parents that are positive via LFTs are particularly symptomatic.
- christkv 5y ago
  This is pretty common from what I've been told the home tests must be taken right in the right infection window and most of them have a false negative somewhere between 7-10% and some even worse against omnicron.
laputan_machine 5y ago
We passed the peak over a week ago https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/, here's hoping we're close to the end...
- samwillis 5y ago
  Exactly, I live in a smallish middle England town, not a city and not London. I think we are trailing the population centres by a couple of weeks despite the country on average being over it. This feels like the peak for us.
CodeGlitch 5y ago
UK: My daughter's class (6 yo) are all starting to test positive, no sign that the teachers have been hit yet though. The WhatsApp "Mum's group" is full of incidence. My daughter is currently lying on our bed with a very high temperature - although LFT still testing negative. I had booked a PCR tomorrow morning but I don't think we'll be able to make it. As other's have said - this thing is like wild-fire at this point.

wefarrell 5y ago

Omicron is less likely to show up on rapid tests and maybe there's a discrepancy in that tendency between adults and children. My wife and I got it on Christmas from my family. She, I, and all of my family members have had three vaccine doses. All of my rapid tests were negative but my PCR was positive.

samwillis 5y ago
I believe you are right, I think the only parents that are positive via LFTs are particularly symptomatic.
christkv 5y ago
This is pretty common from what I've been told the home tests must be taken right in the right infection window and most of them have a false negative somewhere between 7-10% and some even worse against omnicron.

laputan_machine 5y ago

We passed the peak over a week ago https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/, here's hoping we're close to the end...

samwillis 5y ago
Exactly, I live in a smallish middle England town, not a city and not London. I think we are trailing the population centres by a couple of weeks despite the country on average being over it. This feels like the peak for us.

CodeGlitch 5y ago

UK: My daughter's class (6 yo) are all starting to test positive, no sign that the teachers have been hit yet though. The WhatsApp "Mum's group" is full of incidence. My daughter is currently lying on our bed with a very high temperature - although LFT still testing negative. I had booked a PCR tomorrow morning but I don't think we'll be able to make it. As other's have said - this thing is like wild-fire at this point.