How did Pete get covid
Friday
Pete had a work Christmas party (for the double vaccinated) on Friday. It was inside the office, and all attendees that day had to take a rapid antigen test (RAT) on the morning prior to entering work- and test negative.
Saturday and Sunday
Pete's unvaccinated (by choice) mother visited us on the weekend - his uncle and sister too (whom I assume are vaccinated).
Monday
On the following Monday, one of the ladies who went to the party, had a positive RAT - went for a PCR and tested positive.
Tuesday
Pete showed up to work on the Tuesday, but by 10am was sent home. Deemed a 'casual contact' he wasn't required to have a PCR Test unless he had symptoms. But around 12 noon when he got home, he did - so he went to get a test.
Meanwhile, I was at RPAH, working a 12 in small ICU - and when I heard this, I decided to go to Mum's after work. Just in-case.
Wednesday: taking the car to get detailed before the baby arrives, then took a train from Yagoona (where the car cleaning place is) to Auburn, did some last minute gift shopping/went to woolies for bread and cheese) then walked back to mums. I had an ultrasound booked at small hospital in the afternoon - and I was wondering- if Pete is deemed casual contact, and I've been away since Tuesday, I suppose that makes me ... nothing at this stage as we don't know the outcome of the PCR test.
Thursday
So I turned to work my 6am shift at SSH and catch a baby by 06:19.
and work with 2 postnates, 2 of which wanted to be discharged--
just as I was leaving at 14:30 I phone Pete to see how he's going (I had issues charging my phone because this phone is old, and cranky and I am too lazy to buy a better cable) - he tells me he's positive.
I was planning to deliver a gift to a cousin's cousin who lives near SSH - this turns into a contactless delivery whilst I contemplate how much of a close contact I was to Pete.
Probably pretty darn close considering we did heaps of family stuff with his mum, uncle and sister on the weekend prior to him testing positive.
I rang small ICU - I'm likely furloughed for the week and I need to do a PCR covid test - so as I was driving home and cancelling all the antenatal appointments with the doctors and endocrine, I was looking for a covid testing site- only to find, as I got back to Auburn that the main one (which is in the center of town) is shut. So I looked up another round the corner -- and it was shut too.
So I gave up. I'd already missed afternoon tea, and I was hungry.
I'll go tomorrow.
Christmas is cancelled. Or at least, postponed.
I hope the tiny 'tickle' in my throat is psychosomatic as Pete says. It goes away when I had dinner so.