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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I posted about that strain on on New Year's Eve, it's why they're trying to get as many people some sort of vaccination as possible
Does anyone know why if you live with someone who has a test you isolate for 10 days and if they develop symptoms the 10 days are restarted but if a different person you live with develops symptoms the 10 days aren't restarted? Might seem like a silly query but I'm about to walk out if a colleague returns and I've not had it answered sufficiently!!!
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Not quite sure where you got that from. I should imagine the "clock" is restarted each time. There's no notion of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person, just "another person".
Any transmission won't be automatic or instantaneous. It could be transferred from A to B, towards the end of the infectious phase of A, and the similarly for from B to C. You can't be sure that the household is completely clear until after 10 days of the last person to have a positive test/show symptoms. Before that time, a yet non-infected person could suddenly become infected.