🧵 A personal thread on ASMYPTOMATIC spread. My brother’s family has COVID and my mom is exposed. “We didn’t want to worry you,” said my mom & brother, which is why I’m just finding out today. 1/10
TWO weeks ago, my brother’s ASMYPTOMATIC boss tested positive for COVID; he only got a test because his father became hypoxic and was hospitalized for COVID. 2/10
After testing positive, he notified my brother, who was tested on 12/15. My brother went to 4 different testing sites, b/c they kept running out of tests. He finally gave a saliva sample, but did not get results back till 6 days later on 12/21. It was positive for COVID. 3/10
During that time, on 12/20 my mom went to my brother’s house; despite me repeatedly saying she should stay home. The next day, my brother’s results came back positive for COVID, so my mom was tested the next day and her results were negative. 4/10
The problem is that my mom’s last exposure was TWO days prior, which is too soon to detect COVID, so a negative test means nothing. The public health dept failed to notify her of that. She’s now quarantining for two weeks and will get a test on Weds. 5/10
To review, in order to detect COVID there has to be enough time from the exposure for the virus to replicate, ideally greater than 5 days. 6/10 
My brother in his 30s has ZERO symptoms, whereas my SIL and nephew have not been so fortunate. MY SIL's symptom began with a severe headache, loss of taste and eye pain when she looked in different directions, followed by cyclical high fevers and chills. 7/10
My SIL's symptoms improved for a day, then she developed severe body aches fatigue and diarrhea. No respiratory symptoms. She feels better today.
My nephew had fever and diarrhea. My other nephew tested negative, but likely has it, if so then he is asymptomatic. 8/10
My nephew had fever and diarrhea. My other nephew tested negative, but likely has it, if so then he is asymptomatic. 8/10
Thankfully my brother’s family has quarantined throughout the pandemic, aside from my mom coming over, but you see how easily this virus spreads, from my asymptomatic brother’s boss ➡️ asymptomatic brother ➡️ +SIL, +nephew, ?mom. 9/10
In the meantime, I’ll sit and wait hoping that my 60 y.o. mom doesn’t test positive for COVID. /end
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