APS Policy - Vaccinated and Need to Quarantine?

[Anonymous]

From what I can see, you still need to quarantine even if you have been vaccinated. Can someone confirm? Have younger kids so this wasn't really relevant until now. Am still getting younger kids vaccinated, but was hoping that would also end the potential for quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean quarantine if they test positive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean quarantine if they test positive?

NP. I assume OP means if they have an exposure.

[Anonymous]

No, they are not if they are symptom free: “ Students who are vaccinated (and vaccination can be verified during the contact tracing process by the school and school health officials) is not subject to a quarantine.”

https://www.apsva.us/school-year-2021-22/health-safety-information/contact-tracing-quarantine-isolation/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I can see, you still need to quarantine even if you have been vaccinated. Can someone confirm? Have younger kids so this wasn't really relevant until now. Am still getting younger kids vaccinated, but was hoping that would also end the potential for quarantine.

The only need to quarantine if they have symptoms. So vaccinated + close contact + cold symptoms + negative test = continue to quarantine.

If just cold symptoms + negative test = no need to quarantine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From what I can see, you still need to quarantine even if you have been vaccinated. Can someone confirm? Have younger kids so this wasn't really relevant until now. Am still getting younger kids vaccinated, but was hoping that would also end the potential for quarantine.

The only need to quarantine if they have symptoms. So vaccinated + close contact + cold symptoms + negative test = continue to quarantine.

If just cold symptoms + negative test = no need to quarantine

If your child has symptoms they need a negative test before returning to school even if they are vaccinated.

If they are a close contact but do not have symptoms, then they do not need to quarantine or get a PCR test.

[Anonymous]

This guide summarizes it well:



Vaccination only comes into play if your child is a close contact but has no symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This guide summarizes it well:



Vaccination only comes into play if your child is a close contact but has no symptoms.

Based on tweet from Friday - can now be an antigen or PCR negative result, so no more missing school waiting on PCR results.

[Anonymous]

I have real concerns about APS, but that's a very good chart.