Connie Britton, Recovering From COVID, Shares How She Quarantined Away from Her 10-Year-Old Son

Connie Britton is opening up a couple of nightmare situation for a lot of dad and mom: getting COVID and having to isolate out of your children. 

On Monday, the actor shared her current expertise with COVID on Instagram. “I simply received over COVID. Normally I’m fairly personal however I wished to share somewhat little bit of my expertise with y’all, notably in the event you’re a guardian attempting to handle retaining your little ones adverse in the identical home, or vice versa,” she wrote. “As a result of whooo that was not straightforward.” 

When Britton examined constructive, she positioned a panicked name to her physician, anxious about how she would quarantine away from her 10-year-old son Yoby. Pandemic parenting is tougher than ever, particularly for single dad and mom like Britton. The variety of children hospitalized with COVID reached a brand new peak within the U.S. as omicron infections have surged, with hospitalizations charges being pushed particularly by younger youngsters who don’t but have entry to a vaccine. 

Britton shared one main consider attempting to maintain her son from getting the virus: “[My doctor] broke it down for me. Masks. Should you’re each masked and keep away from head to head contact, that may hold the virus from spreading,” she wrote. “In fact avoiding head to head contact together with your 10 12 months outdated is not any straightforward feat (I can’t think about if I had an actual little!).” To tug it off and hold her son COVID-free, Britton shared that she remoted herself in her room, solely venturing to the kitchen—whereas masked—to prep meals for her household. 

She additionally spoke concerning the emotional toll it takes when COVID touches your loved ones. “Truthfully the worst was not with the ability to hug and even make shut eye contact with my son who has spent 1/5 of his life now upended from this pandemic. Children, and all of us, have been residing in concern of this factor for two years. And now mother has it!! And he would possibly get it! So scary,” Britton wrote. 

The Nashville star credited being vaccinated and boosted with retaining her case of COVID “so gentle” and with finally retaining her son protected. “If it wasn’t COVID I wouldn’t have missed a day of labor,” she wrote. “I used to be so grateful, having feared the harm, notably to the lungs, {that a} unhealthy case of COVID can do. This was the factor we’ve been operating from in concern for two years. However I do consider my vaccines made it extra gentle. And my son’s vaccines protected him and made it so he might go to high school after an preliminary isolation so long as he was masked and remained adverse, which was so a lot better for him than knocking round a home attempting to keep away from his mother just like the literal plague!” 

Analysis exhibits vaccines are extremely efficient at stopping transmission of the coronavirus. Getting the booster shot could make you 13 occasions much less prone to get contaminated, as SELF beforehand reported. The booster is particularly necessary for averting the extremely contagious omicron variant, based on early information from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, which present a significant uptick in antibodies following booster pictures.  Get vaxxed, get boosted, and if somebody in your family does check constructive for COVID-19, put on masks to remain protected. 

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