So our whole family got Corona back in January / February of this year.

Back then one of our kids that tested positive didn't have any symptoms, but this time after they were exposed and tested positive they had a slight fever (100.5).

Question is, do I need to personally quarantine? The wife and other kid went in for a test to make sure and they were both negative.

On one hand, it's a very very small chance to get it again based on immunity, but obviously it happens.

Do I need to quarantine or is it okay to go into work, in your well informed opinion?

If you are quarantining your child in his/her room and you tested negative then you should be fine.

I believe CDC guidance is that if you have been vaccinated and get a negative test, you do not need to quarantine. BinaxNow at walgreens, cvs, etc is $24 for two and gives results in 15 min. Perfect for your situation (we were in the same boat this weekend and that is what we did.

I agree, obviously

But to your point, I don't have "my doctor", and there are tons of experts and doctors here on the boards -

If you are vaccinated, technically you don't have to quarantine.

A lot of workplaces, schools, and childcare facilities are asking for quarantines if it's in the household.

I personally wouldn't do it myself with my current lifestyle, but with certain jobs in the past I would have really had to think about reporting it. So it's really up to how good/bad your employer is and if you're vaccinated.

I'm the 'boss' of a small office - about 10-12 are in. They know my kid got it.

To your first point, of not quarantining if vaccinated - immunity from getting it on a prior occasion like we did in Feb. is stronger than the vaccine - so on those grounds, "if you have a vaccine", I should be doing well.

Hey Premium, hoping your feeling better today?

Curious now that we know your Covid + how reliable were you about isolating when you expected to not get it? Not condemning, just trying to see what people's general response is considering some of the replies on this thread.

What do you mean isolated? I've been living as precovid. The daughter got it at school and we did not make her quarantine or stay distanced from the family. We didn't go out and about either, as to not community spread.

ETA: And yes, feeling way better today.

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What do you mean isolated? I've been living as precovid. The daughter got it at school and we did not make her quarantine or stay distanced from the family. We didn't go out and about either, as to not community spread.

ETA: And yes, feeling way better today.

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This is what we did when I caught and my 5 y/o likely had it. No extra tests or crazy isolation. We just hung out at the house for a week and went he back to school 10 days after first symptoms. Rest of the family continued their lives.

Sorry, that's what I meant, did you stay home. Glad to hear you did and that you are feeling better.

When I read some takes on this board it seems people feel comfortable living life as normal if exposed if they believe they have immunity and haven't adjusted to waning immunity, or just don't care. Thanks for being cautious, it clearly paid off.

You presume too much.

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Honestly, call your doctor and ask them, not an Internet forum.

If I worked in your office I would prefer you not take a chance with my health.

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My advice? In the end, expect covid everywhere you go. If you are vaccinated, you'll be fine. Only the absolutely weak and unhealthy with pre-existing conditions (think an 80+ with VERY weakened health) are at moderate risk once vaccinated. The likelihood if you are vaxed and catch a breakthrough is that you'll be sick for a few days and than have super immunity. At which point you are off the hook for pretty much any mitigation effort.

Point is, we are at a point that the only ones we are protecting are the unvaccinated. I feel it's totally their choice to not get the vaccine. An ill advised choice but one nonetheless. If you are vaccinated you'll be fine. Wear a mask if you prefer some extra protection. Wear a mask if you feel that while it is very unlikely you will be able to spread the virus as a vaccinated individual, it is still possible and you will just feel better about it. But pretty much assume someone around you has been exposed in your office and just accept it. I am maskless in a school full of germ attracting maskless kiddos all day. Given the wonderful super immunity I have, I dive right into the crowds and literally soak up the air around me. Most teachers here do not mask either. I know I'm literally breathing in delta everyday. Just not worried about it. There is almost no way I am not exposed everyday. Is what it is and I am totally fine with it. People have an opportunity to pretty much eliminate this as a threat IF they choose, it's now on them to do that....

All very good points and I completely agree.

I have been living life as I normally do, (despite the way some on this board want to characterize) since I was fully vaccinated.

Seems likely an effective policy that will better people's lives in all regards.

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while it is very unlikely you will be able to spread the virus as a vaccinated individual,

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That's not true. No knowledge expert is saying that.

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Its debatable. Could you as a vaccinated person carry enough load ton infect others? Maybe. But there isn't enough studies to tell for sure and just like the flu, it's not like we say one should mask up after a flu vaccine, even though a flu vaccine may truly be ineffective certain seasons. The Covid vaccine, on the other hand, IS truly effective. Even against the delta variant. No not 100% but enough that if enough had been vaccinated, there'd be no one in ICU except the few very old or frail, but not enough to get anywhere near overflow. And the issue is that some are getting breakthrough cases, no doubt. They can carry the virus to others. But what of the ones who delta bounces off of? Can they carry enough load to others. Some say no. And what of Super immune people? What I am arguing is why we don't really need to mitigate if we are vaccinated, any more then any other virus. This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. It still doesn't effect children much worse than the other covid variants and I am just done worrying about protecting the unvaccinated from whatever I might be carrying around in my nose...

We masked last year b/c we had no other way to protect ourselves. We now have the most studied and understood vaccine in the history of the world with more users than practically any other vaccine has. Yet too many still want to rely on an experimental drug that is designed to treat mammals for parasites. These are crazy times...Do I want them to catch Covid? Hell no. But should I need to mitigate further when I have done my part at this point? This is why I do not mask and really hate the idea of it as there is only ONE solution to ending this: Getting vaccinated.

If you are defining "pandemic" as hospitalization, then what you're saying is accurate I guess. I think the virus itself is still the pandemic and a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is not true in the least.

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If you are defining "pandemic" as hospitalization, then what you're saying is accurate I guess. I think the virus itself is still the pandemic and a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is not true in the least.

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Yes, more to the first point. The hospitalization/hospital capacity issues were the main concern all along. But we had nothing to protect us besides social distancing and masks which may have worked for viral load "management" but all of that was nothing compared to a vaccine. Now we have a vaccine. And delta may not be stopped at all by masking at this point. some things I've read state that delta is 3-4x more contagious than other variants. DO masks even stop that? The vaccine will in the sense the illness will be less serious and not require hospitalization for the vast majority. Right now, the vast majority in hospitals are unvaccinated, so hence how I define the pandemic. If all those hospitalized now had been vaccinated, there would be zero hospitals full and this would be a non story. Again, no mandates. Don't like employers thinking they should force employees to vaccinate. But at the same time, and I get that this is throwing the medical workers under the bus, if ones chose to not get the vaccine, this is on them.

I have some friends who are all sick with Covid right now. One of their kids brought it home from school.

The husband just turned 40 and is tall and skinny athletic type with no health issues. He was sick enough to get the Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion a few days ago. He's still pretty sick. The way he put it in his last update was "they all had a rough weekend."

His wife (skinny little thing in her late 30s) had covid back in January (positive test). Her main symptoms were massive headache & brain fog as well as fatigue at that time. She now has it again (positive test). She's having pretty terrible body aches and fatigue, but she's also having to care for everyone else who is sick (they have four kids in upper elementary).

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If you are defining "pandemic" as hospitalization, then what you're saying is accurate I guess. I think the virus itself is still the pandemic and a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" is not true in the least.

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Yes, more to the first point. The hospitalization/hospital capacity issues were the main concern all along. But we had nothing to protect us besides social distancing and masks which may have worked for viral load "management" but all of that was nothing compared to a vaccine. Now we have a vaccine. And delta may not be stopped at all by masking at this point. some things I've read state that delta is 3-4x more contagious than other variants. DO masks even stop that? The vaccine will in the sense the illness will be less serious and not require hospitalization for the vast majority. Right now, the vast majority in hospitals are unvaccinated, so hence how I define the pandemic. If all those hospitalized now had been vaccinated, there would be zero hospitals full and this would be a non story. Again, no mandates. Don't like employers thinking they should force employees to vaccinate. But at the same time, and I get that this is throwing the medical workers under the bus, if ones chose to not get the vaccine, this is on them.

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Here we go again. It's always vaccine or nothing completely disregarding natural immunity. I would bet at least 30% of our country has contracted Covid already. I had an extremely mild case of Covid last October. Both my wife and son just got Delta I presume. I took zero precautions and was caring for them 24/7, sleeping in bed with my wife, etc. Never got one symptom.

Yet many on this board would think I'm just lucky and/or reckless.

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I 100% agree that natural immunity is a very important and way too many seem to want to discount it. The vaccine doesn't work if there is no such thing as natural immunity. Super immunity comes from getting covid and having at least 1 shot.

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The husband just turned 40 and is tall and skinny athletic type with no health issues. He was sick enough to get the Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion a few days ago.

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This is not an attack, just a quest for information.

How was the husband able to get Regeneron? I have read quite a lot about its use, and there are very specific guidelines for who is eligible for it.

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The husband just turned 40 and is tall and skinny athletic type with no health issues. He was sick enough to get the Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion a few days ago.

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This is not an attack, just a quest for information.

How was the husband able to get Regeneron? I have read quite a lot about its use, and there are very specific guidelines for who is eligible for it.

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There is another recent thread about the monoclonal antibody treatments and one of the docs indicated that the risk profile (criteria) had changed and that now the infusions are generally available to anyone who wants them. I'm sure that's oversimplification but a lot more people are getting them now and earlier in the onset - prob Delta driven.

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The husband just turned 40 and is tall and skinny athletic type with no health issues. He was sick enough to get the Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion a few days ago.

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This is not an attack, just a quest for information.

How was the husband able to get Regeneron? I have read quite a lot about its use, and there are very specific guidelines for who is eligible for it.

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Yeah, I was surprised too, but it seems to be the go-to treatment here (Houston area) for those who get a serious case and are unvaccinated and thus lacking the antibodies already.

He said the room was filled with patients getting that treatment. He called it a "mad house" of temporary equipment set up and patients coming in and out.

My PCP tried to get me in last week for antibody infusion, but I didn't have any comorbidities to qualify. Ended up in the hospital instead.

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The husband just turned 40 and is tall and skinny athletic type with no health issues. He was sick enough to get the Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion a few days ago.

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This is not an attack, just a quest for information.

How was the husband able to get Regeneron? I have read quite a lot about its use, and there are very specific guidelines for who is eligible for it.

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There is another recent thread about the monoclonal antibody treatments and one of the docs indicated that the risk profile (criteria) had changed and that now the infusions are generally available to anyone who wants them. I'm sure that's oversimplification but a lot more people are getting them now and earlier in the onset - prob Delta driven.

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I would say that as of last week, based on conversation with my doc, the age and BMI criteria were lowered recently. That said, 40, tall/skinny, athletic type wouldn't have qualified without a dr fudging some numbers somewhere.

That's a pic from his FB page. It was the latest family pic.

I thought it was pretty much authorized for anybody. He does work for some kind of medical supply company, though, so maybe that helped him get in?

I will say, that while he's not at all overweight, he does love to talk about bacon. Lol. He's kind of a junk food junkie, though I think most of that is him being funny. He's a funny guy in general.

His wife is *DEFINITELY* little. He posted yesterday that at this moment he's more concerned about her. I don't think she's had the infusion.

Nice rule 1! I'd bet he met the BMI criteria for overweight (BMI>25) which was one of the recent changes (from obese down to overweight).

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The husband just turned 40 and is tall and skinny athletic type with no health issues. He was sick enough to get the Regeneron monoclonal antibody infusion a few days ago.

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This is not an attack, just a quest for information.

How was the husband able to get Regeneron? I have read quite a lot about its use, and there are very specific guidelines for who is eligible for it.

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I just walked in to a place in The Woodlands without a doctors referral. Got it yesterday. They process you until you end up in a small room with 6 people, in a circle, looking at each other all getting the infusion at the same time. Felt like the start to a zombie movie.