Bouleversee wrote:dealtn wrote:Bouleversee wrote: Something tells me that if either side had been infected, the virus might not have had too much difficulty in clocking up another victim or two.
Exposure isn't the same as infection. Plenty of couples share a bed for several hours 7 days a week without partners being infected. I doubt your exposure was even close to that kind of "affection". I agree though that no-one should be made to feel uncomfortable with anything they are asked to do, or be exposed to though - although that is a different thing.
How do you know the partners are not affected? They may just be asymptomatic but nevertheless infectious to others. Unless they had a test for infection or an antibody test at the right time, you can't know. I do know the difference between exposure and infection. In any event, it just doesn't look good in a hospital setting, especially in a department dealing with highly vulnerable patients with respiratory diseases, and sets a bad example to the rest of the community. Much of the spread of the virus is due to ignorance and complacency.
Well I agree with the second part (as can be seen from my initial response).
My wife is a nurse. We have a number of nurses as friends. Of those 3 have so far tested positive, and have been tested on occasions before the positive tests, returning negative a number of times, and negative too since "recovery". So there would have been plenty of time before, when they were "infectious" yet asymptomatic when they were sharing a house with family and bed with partner. No one else in the 3 households tested positive at the time, or subsequently, or showed symptoms. (2 of the tested nurses did - 1 only very mildly).
This doesn't appear dissimilar to other episodes. There have been a number of people testing positive to antibody tests that had no idea they ever had it, and shared households with families and beds with partners throughout, but are the only one in that house to test positive. Yet some "super-spreader" events appear to give an impression it is easy to transmit.