Sorry about Brad and your DD Debby! I hope she doesn't get it again. It's a risky business having to go to work nowadays.

I am scheduled to go in for my first shot in two weeks approximately. I'll be so glad to have some protection. Still I won't feel good about it until most people have the same protection and I won't let my guard down.

Hope your family comes through this easily with no residual problems.

I remember reading about this. Telling you chicken soup made by a loving mother is good medicine. Or something like that.

He sounds like a wonderful person. That soup sounds like it’s just what he needs.

There are so many unknowns with this “gosh darn” COVID.

(Use your imagination to what word I wanted to use)

Sending positive and healing thoughts.

There is much about this virus that we don't know.

Debby, you have my sympathies. I can imagine how worried you are.

There are lots of variables here,

The viral load of the infected person, under a certain level and they aren't contagious

The immune system of the potential infected, strong enough to halt infection or weak and vulnerable to infection

The immune response of the infected person, if too poor a response on the first challenge they won't produce a protective response, also seen in people that their vaccine didn't "take"

Also remember that these vaccines are fragile, requiring very exact handling. There are going to be some doses that are duds and those won't produce an immune response.

Or come worry (commiserate at this point) together.

Hope it's all over very quickly with only ironic stories to tell.

Debby, it is so hard to be a parent. Even more so when all one can do is worry. You did good on making the chicken soup. We're all here for you, and for her.

I am involved in handling the covid leaves for my large employer (employees in nearly every state in the USA).

It seems most people who test positive do end up having the folks they share living quarters with also test positive. However that is not universal. I'm aware of parents who tested positive and their children never did. I'm also aware of parents caring for sick children who never caught it themselves.

In something like this, how something plays out at an individual level is not really indicative of....well, anything. We know it is highly infectious. That is a fact. However some people who share close spaces may still be lucky enough to escape an infection.

Your daughter will, HOPEFULLY, be fine. I do completely understand the worry, she's apparently just outside of the standard "90 days" of immunity. But that is also not a guarantee.....

Chicken soup cures a lot though. :) It sounds yummy!!

Maybe DD will still have antibodies that will fight it off this time around. Does she still have to self-isolate? I sure hope Brad will be okay. Chicken soup does wonders, especially when made by mom.

Debby, I have no suggestions but lots of sympathy. I'd worry too! That said, I bet your daughter will be fine. I hope the same is true for Brad, following a quick recovery.

I did "google" and odds of her contracting it again are very small. I'm trying to keep thinking that way. We still don't know which variant my son in law has, it takes 3-5 days for them to find out and then they'll let him know. When he made his appointment for his test, he was asked by the contact tracer how sick he was when my daughter caught it. He said he never got it from her. She said, "well that's not the answer we were expecting...", yet I worked in a drugstore and two employees got it. One from a customer: her husband also works in the store. HE never got it, nor did their children. Only the wife. And the other lady caught it from her step-son. Her husband and her daughter never caught it.

I just dropped off their soup. They'll be home at least for 2 weeks. If she tests positive, which I believe she will that's good because she can go back to work sooner. If she tests negative, she has to take an additional 14 days off AFTER he goes back to work. She's working from home right now. But to answer the question: if someone tests positive in your household, you must ALL quarantine. You cannot step outside of your home at all. Even us talking at her door was a no-no. But we wore masks and I stood a good 10 feet away from her, as I did in January every time I dropped something off for her.

Wishing him a quick recovery and your daughter not to have it again.

I do like the idea that everyone in the household must quarantine rather than just the individual. Either on here or on Hot Topics before it closed several mentions of just the individual quarantining which having been in quarantine at one time seemed not just odd but very wrong. Mine was as a child for a bad case of ringworm caught from my cat or perhaps I gave it to him but I remember some of the instructions on the quarantine form found when cleaning out my parents house.

Oh no! I hope Brad has a mild case and your daughter remains healthy. Yes, this is a very weird virus.

Pfizer at least stated today that a booster will be needed. Not going to link but it was an article from CNN. I found it interesting that research is underway by the US government on how to handle in the article that was right above it. "People are likely to need a booster dose of vaccine six to 12 months after their first round, Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, said." Not frequently mentioned in other stories but probably be added to the annual flu shot until this subsides.

I look at something called Refdesk which has links to various sites. If anyone is interested in the middle of the CNN page is a group of links to Covid information and news stories.