That's good news that nobody else tested positive. The younger people tend to have little to no symptoms, so that makes sense the kid only had a headache. It is crazy how nobody else got it, despite how easily it's transmitted. My cousin's son got it (he only had loss of smell and taste), and he didn't spread it to anybody else somehow either. He's 20 y/o, I think, and was home from college for the summer when he got it.
As an aside, I just tested positive for it, too. I'm an interventional radiology PA, and I've been doing procedures on Covid patients since March. On Thursday at work I had a slight cough throughout the day and a little low back pain. When I got home that evening I also had some chest pain. It started making me nervous that maybe I actually had Covid.
Then later that night I found out that my coworker tested positive for Covid-19. We have been getting tested weekly at work for probably the last five weeks due to our high risk since we do procedures on inpatients (including a fair number of Covid+ pts) and outpatients. My test was performed the same day as my coworker's on Thursday; but when I took mine I had the slower PCR test, and she had the rapid test when she took hers later in the day.
Once I found that her positive results, I got really nervous that my symptoms were truly consistent with Covid-19. Then, I was up for good at 2:00am with fever of 102.7, chills, body aches, really bad headache, mild cough, mild intermittent chest pain, and bilateral hip pain. The headache has persisted on and off and was probably the worst thing other than the fever/chills.
My test came back last night, unsurprisingly, as positive. Hopefully nobody else in my house will get it. I am isolating.
I'm really frustrated because I took such good caution in and out of work to avoid getting it, then I have to get the virus the week before I was supposed to get my vaccine.
My coworker and I were exposed to a patient during a procedure on 12/2 who wasn't known to have Covid-19 at the time. She had hepatic encephalopathy and she kept taking her mask off and coughing. We just had regular masks on (not N95s) because she was initially negative. She tested positive shortly after. We were informed through contact tracing that we were at risk, but I figured I'd still be ok given that I'd made it this far after basically swimming in Covid for quite a while. Guess not.
Long story short, the virus is unpredictable as far as transmission. The better we are at protecting ourselves, the better off we are!
