Question re APS covid policy

[Anonymous]

I’ve been searching the APS website but can’t find an answer on this. If a kid has mild cold/allergy symptoms (stuffy/runny nose, nothing else), no known covid exposure and got a negative covid test (done this afternoon, symptoms started Friday evening), are they allowed to go to school because they have a negative test or do they have to stay home due to the symptoms? TIA!

[Anonymous]

Negative PCR? Or home test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Negative PCR? Or home test?

PCR

[Anonymous]

We just went thru this, had to get an APS form filled out by DS’s pediatrician stating it was a chronic condition, and send in his negative Covid test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Negative PCR? Or home test?

PCR

We just did this. They need a doctor note with an alternative diagnosis to return.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Negative PCR? Or home test?

PCR

We just did this. They need a doctor note with an alternative diagnosis to return.

You should fill out the screener tomorrow indicating his symptoms. He will fail it. The school will likely contact you pretty quickly but I suggest calling the clinic yourself for instructions to move things along faster.

[Anonymous]

Also consider that a kid with a constant runny nose can't keep his mask on, would need to remove it over and over to blow his nose. So even if cleared for Covid, I wouldn't send him back until it starts to dry up (if it's a cold), or you can give him allergy medications to help dry it up (if it's allergies).

New onset sudden symptoms sound more like illness than allergies.

[Anonymous]

APS might as well go back to virtual school over the winter because attendance rates will be atrocious unless parents start doping their kids with cold medicine so they can go to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Negative PCR? Or home test?

PCR

We just did this. They need a doctor note with an alternative diagnosis to return.

What alternative diagnosis did you get? I don’t see pediatricians starting to run rhinovirus tests of every kid with the sniffles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS might as well go back to virtual school over the winter because attendance rates will be atrocious unless parents start doping their kids with cold medicine so they can go to school.

or you could actually keep ill kids home, not spread germs and therefore have less illness overall.

[Anonymous]

According to this flow chart, all you need is the negative PCR: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/parent-quick-guide-covid.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to this flow chart, all you need is the negative PCR: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/parent-quick-guide-covid.pdf

That glow chart is so dumb. What illness symptoms are there that aren’t a sign of a potentially contagious illness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS might as well go back to virtual school over the winter because attendance rates will be atrocious unless parents start doping their kids with cold medicine so they can go to school.

or you could actually keep ill kids home, not spread germs and therefore have less illness overall.

In other words, terrible attendance rates all winter when kids are home for 10 days at a stretch until every last sniffle is gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Negative PCR? Or home test?

PCR

We just did this. They need a doctor note with an alternative diagnosis to return.

And this is why its impossible to get my actually sick kid a pediatrician appointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Negative PCR? Or home test?

PCR

We just did this. They need a doctor note with an alternative diagnosis to return.

And this is why its impossible to get my actually sick kid a pediatrician appointment.

We did it by email. The nurse asked some questions and filled out the form. The doctor signed.