APS close contacts - lag in reporting?
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Anonymous
| Our school had some positive cases and no listed close contacts. I know that’s inaccurate. Should I expect it to show up at some point or is there something that causes certain batches of close contacts to go unreported? |
Anonymous
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From what I’ve heard from cases at our school, there is a very strict definition of “close contact”.
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Anonymous
| Has anyone on this board received a call from the health department? Do they simply inform you that you’re a close contact, or do they ask follow up questions to determine if you’re a close contact? |
Anonymous
| It is not a close contact if the student is vaccinated. At least in our experience, vaccinated kids don't have to quarantine if in contact. So I suspect once they call the suspected close contact, if the kid is vaccinated it is not reported as a close contact. Is your kid in ES or MS? |
Anonymous
To my comment above, my friend was called. They asked if her kid was vaccinated, she said yes and they said no quarantine required. |
Anonymous
My child was identified as a close contact by the school. I received a phone call from the assistant principal and the school nurse to inform me of this and to outline the quarantine/testing/return to school requirements. I also received a call from the health department to survey for symptoms and to also provide some quarantine guidance. |
Anonymous
Unless it’s not a recognized vaccine |
Anonymous
| Almost no kids in elementary are eligible for the vaccine. I would expect at least 5 or 6 contacts identified each time there’s a case, but frequently there’s not a single close contact identified by APS. I’m all for minimizing quarantines, but identifying zero contacts if a child was covid-positive and in school all day with a 100% unvaccinated population seems a little too optimistic about the efficacy of masks. |
Anonymous
There was presumably a positive case it my kid's class because we got the school-wide email that there was a positive in X grade and then 2 days later he mentions offhand that there were only 12 kids in his class today instead of 22. I asked a few days later and turns out they were out all week. None of those contacts are showing on the dashboard. If the dashboard is fed by parent survey responses it's basically useless. |
Anonymous
| My theory is that families that get notified in the middle of a school day never fill out the form identifying their child as a close contact because, when they get the questionnaire the next morning, they’ve already been placed in quarantine by APS in coordination with the health department and there’s nothing left for them to tell APS, right? Why should they tell APS something that APS already knows? At that point families are getting multiple communications from the school. The schools would need to report the info to get it incorporated in the posted numbers. |
Anonymous
What vaccines are unrecognized? Is this really a thing? |
Anonymous
I know, right? You ever seen a horse with COVID? Me neither. Sounds like it works to me. |
Anonymous
How long did it take for the health dept to contact you? I got a call from the school but haven't heard from health dept. |
Anonymous
That isn’t a vaccine even when used appropriately on horses. |
Anonymous
It would be if you got your kid vaccinated by lying about their age or in a trial. |