Close contact quarantine (household member)

[Anonymous]

Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

[Anonymous]

That's nuts. Our DC daycare allows the exposed unvaccinated kid to come back after 5 days if they have no symptoms.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if it's common practice. I think if they do not have an exception if the family member can isolate (e.g. in the basement) that would be odd. I agree this is a big burden on families, but in practice if the family member cannot isolate the likelihood they can pass it on to the child they live with is pretty high.

We had the opposite happen - our child got COVID at daycare (which had a massive outbreak). I tested positive 5 days later, and I'm staying home for 10 days, so it ends up being 15 anyway. Add to that the fact that DD actually was quarantine for 5 days before she tested positive. I'm glad I started quarantining as soon as she tested positive or I could have gotten my high-risk coworkers sick.

So I think the policy makes sense, but I do get that it is a huge burden. Call me a terrible parent but I'm glad my child got it before I did, and that now that she's had COVID she's exempted from quarantine from 90 days. These quarantines are brutal because they can be neverending until the child actually gets COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

That’s nuts and not at all in line with common policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

Regardless of vaccination status? Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why. But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

Regardless of vaccination status? Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why. But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?

OP here- yes but many if not most of the kids in the older classes at our daycare already turned 5 and vaccinated, and this applies to them too. I was also hopeful that when my DC is eligible for vaccination we’d be rid of these quarantines.

But point taken that it’s likely to spread within a house anyway- guess the hope would be that if it were to come to that DC would test positive before us. I could just see this sort of policy leading to parents not really being truthful if they themselves test positive but not the kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

Regardless of vaccination status? Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why. But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?

OP here- yes but many if not most of the kids in the older classes at our daycare already turned 5 and vaccinated, and this applies to them too. I was also hopeful that when my DC is eligible for vaccination we’d be rid of these quarantines.

But point taken that it’s likely to spread within a house anyway- guess the hope would be that if it were to come to that DC would test positive before us. I could just see this sort of policy leading to parents not really being truthful if they themselves test positive but not the kid.

I'm the PO who mentioned it will spread within the household. I agree, for many families this could be a huge threat to their livelihoods and they may do what they need to do. Personally I could not live with myself if DD was patient zero of a big outbreak at a daycare but I do get it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

Regardless of vaccination status? Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why. But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?

OP here- yes but many if not most of the kids in the older classes at our daycare already turned 5 and vaccinated, and this applies to them too. I was also hopeful that when my DC is eligible for vaccination we’d be rid of these quarantines.

But point taken that it’s likely to spread within a house anyway- guess the hope would be that if it were to come to that DC would test positive before us. I could just see this sort of policy leading to parents not really being truthful if they themselves test positive but not the kid.

I think its unreasonable if it's different than the CDC guidelines. I would bring it up to the daycare. One of the perks of getting the vaccine is not having to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

Regardless of vaccination status? Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why. But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?

OP here- yes but many if not most of the kids in the older classes at our daycare already turned 5 and vaccinated, and this applies to them too. I was also hopeful that when my DC is eligible for vaccination we’d be rid of these quarantines.

But point taken that it’s likely to spread within a house anyway- guess the hope would be that if it were to come to that DC would test positive before us. I could just see this sort of policy leading to parents not really being truthful if they themselves test positive but not the kid.

I think its unreasonable if it's different than the CDC guidelines. I would bring it up to the daycare. One of the perks of getting the vaccine is not having to quarantine.

Agree- I don’t know where OP lives but this is definitely not the policy in most public school districts, so I’m not sure what the justification is for it at a daycare (except for under 2s maybe that can’t wear a mask). It seems like this type of quarantine should be applied consistently one way or another.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status. Is this common practice elsewhere? For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).

Regardless of vaccination status? Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why. But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?

OP here- yes but many if not most of the kids in the older classes at our daycare already turned 5 and vaccinated, and this applies to them too. I was also hopeful that when my DC is eligible for vaccination we’d be rid of these quarantines.

But point taken that it’s likely to spread within a house anyway- guess the hope would be that if it were to come to that DC would test positive before us. I could just see this sort of policy leading to parents not really being truthful if they themselves test positive but not the kid.

I think its unreasonable if it's different than the CDC guidelines. I would bring it up to the daycare. One of the perks of getting the vaccine is not having to quarantine.

If a person is unvaccinated CDC guidance dictates a 5 day quarantine from the last day of close contact. Every day the person is in contact with the COVID positive person restarts the clock until the COVID positive case's isolation ends (after 10 days). For vaccinated people no quarantine applies, so that is where this policy diverges from the CDC.

FWIW our daycare has no such stated policy but I bet if I told the director one of us had COVID and we can't isolate, she's give similar guidance.