daycare shutting down our class for 10 days due to COVID

[Anonymous]

UGH. Someone in DC's class tested positive and they are shutting down the class for 10 days!! I thought CDC guideline was 5 days now. I hate that this will completely upend our lives - two working parents who now have to scramble for coverage.

Pandemic may be over, but COVID-related disruptions are still such a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

The Maryland Department of Health guidelines say providers don’t need to quarantine for individual cases.

[Anonymous]

Of course. Parents still lag and then don’t have to work.

[Anonymous]

^pay

[Anonymous]

Where is this? Pretty sure our daycare was just directed to do the same for a class in our center (we are in MoCo). It’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

This is getting absurd. When will someone fix this? Have any parents thought of going to the media to see if someone will do a story? It’s constant disruption to people’s lives and I think many are t aware this is still happening since the narrative is life has “returned to normal.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this? Pretty sure our daycare was just directed to do the same for a class in our center (we are in MoCo). It’s ridiculous.

OP here - Arlington VA.

[Anonymous]

We’ve been through this three times with my kids since Dec so that’s a full month of daycare we’ve missed now. It has absolutely sucked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UGH. Someone in DC's class tested positive and they are shutting down the class for 10 days!! I thought CDC guideline was 5 days now. I hate that this will completely upend our lives - two working parents who now have to scramble for coverage.

Pandemic may be over, but COVID-related disruptions are still such a nightmare.

it should be five days from exposure to kid who tested positive. so if the kid who tested positive was last in on monday then 5 days would be saturday. you would need to get your kids tested on saturday or sunday to return to school monday with a negative test and no symptoms.

mask wearing would be required for day 6-10 that can removed during eating and napping.

if your school isnt masked then you get a 10 day.

[Anonymous]

That sucks, OP. I'm sorry. This is happening in MoCo too, even though guidelines don't require it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is getting absurd. When will someone fix this? Have any parents thought of going to the media to see if someone will do a story? It’s constant disruption to people’s lives and I think many are t aware this is still happening since the narrative is life has “returned to normal.”

Stop getting and spreading covid... that will stop it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is getting absurd. When will someone fix this? Have any parents thought of going to the media to see if someone will do a story? It’s constant disruption to people’s lives and I think many are t aware this is still happening since the narrative is life has “returned to normal.”

Stop getting and spreading covid... that will stop it.

Good luck with that. The majority of society is not subjected to these quarantines so Covid will keep spreading no matter how cautious the daycare families are. Most of our quarantines have actually been from a staff member getting Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UGH. Someone in DC's class tested positive and they are shutting down the class for 10 days!! I thought CDC guideline was 5 days now. I hate that this will completely upend our lives - two working parents who now have to scramble for coverage.

Pandemic may be over, but COVID-related disruptions are still such a nightmare.

In DC:

SHORTER ISOLATION PERIODS1
o Individuals age 2 and older may now return
to care on day 6 if they receive a negative test
result on day 5. The individual must wear a
well-fitting mask through day 10.
SHORTER QUARANTINE PERIODS2
o Individuals age 2 and older may now return
to care on day 6 if they receive a negative test
result on day 5. The individual should wear a
well-fitting mask through day 10.

Notice that this is only for children age 2 and older who can consisitently wear a mask correctly. Isolation refers to those who tested positive and quarantine refers to those who are close contacts.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why the Arlington VA daycare is closed for 10 days - ours stays open when there is a direct exposure. Honestly I wouldn't mind a quarantine of 5 days (an unpopular opinion on dcum)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the Arlington VA daycare is closed for 10 days - ours stays open when there is a direct exposure. Honestly I wouldn't mind a quarantine of 5 days (an unpopular opinion on dcum)

The trouble is, it isn’t a quarantine. If you close daycare, I hire sitters and lean on family. So he has MORE exposures in a week of closed daycare than a week of open daycare.