Good morning, wondering if I could get some opinions on my current situation. I had a night nanny over on Monday night to take care of my one month old son. She was at my house for nine hours. She and I sat taking on the couch fairly close to each other for about an hour, and then she held my son for maybe a total of 15 minutes. She wore a mask but I didn't.

She left Tuesday morning and called me later that day to tell me that she had gone to get a Covid test after leaving my house and it was positive. She said she had been feeling a little off for a couple of days and had just started to develop mild cold symptoms. Her daughter had also been having mild symptoms for a couple of days and tested positive at the same time.

I talked to my son's pediatrician who said that my son had very little risk and recommended that I be tested 72 hours after my last exposure. I had the Curative PCR cheek/mouth swab test yesterday morning, which was negative. I feel completely fine.

My question is, do I need to take another test in a few more days to be confident that I am truly negative? My parents are both in their 70s and I obviously want to be careful around them. I generally spend a lot of time around them and have been spending the night at their house multiple nights a week for help caring for my son. Of course I haven't been around anyone except my son since my exposure.

Thank you very much for any opinions!

I would wait to see them and get a PCR day 5-6 after exposure. It's around 90% that with a negative test then you won't be infected.

I thought it was 5 days after exposure as well.

Try to hold off seeing them for a week. I had the rona about a month ago, and my incubation period was very long. 7+ days. I tested negative at 6-7 days when I started to have some slight sinus congestion (rapid tho, not pcr) and positive a couple days later around 8-9 after the congestion increased. Never had fever. So wait a week and get a pcr

I think day 8 has the lowest false positive rate.


The curative test also had some skepticism recently but not sure how truthful that is. Something about low detection rates in asymptomatics.

Thank you all for the info! Much appreciated.