Re testing
Information from daughters medical friends is that the omicron variant is best tested using throat plus nasal swab, and is detectable up to three days earlier if you do. You can still use the newer LFT tests which say to just swab nose, wiped over tonsils four times each side, then nose for ten turns. You can test positive this way and still test negative if you do a nose only test for a couple of days.
Interestingly, spent a week staying in Hertfordshire with daughter and family, adults all boostered, two of us considered vulnerable. Four year old started coughing, we discovered that 12/28 from her class have Covid, as she has. Two days later Dad tested positive- he does her bedtime so most contact. Mum the following day. Both are pretty poorly now. Despite being there neither 7 year old nor I have succumbed, although we went into full mask/hand wash mode and eating separately asap. Eliza is autistic, so living her best life with no people and being allowed virtually unlimited screen time and full access to treat drawer.
Having had negative PCR result as well as daily LFT, I came home yesterday as younger son is due home from respite tomorrow.
|