Covid notifications

[Anonymous]

Is your preschool/daycare still notifying families if someone in the class has Covid? I’m kind of over it, we don’t get any notifications for the public school, workplace, or anything else anymore. Now the kids are back in masks for 10 days and I’m questioning whether we can continue with weekend plans due to the exposure. My DC has no symptoms and apparently the positive kid had mild cold symptoms but has to stay out 5 days). How long is this going to continue?

[Anonymous]

Covid is like the flu. Never going away. Thanks “gain of function” aka bio-weapon research.

[Anonymous]

I honestly don't know. We are at Bright Horizons. They seem to change policies all the time without telling anyone. I would like to know about positive cases because I prefer to keep my kid out for a few days. And yeah I would limit plans after an exposure.

[Anonymous]

We got a notification in the fall about a COVID case. So I assume they are still notifying people if the person was at the center in the days before testing positive. I don't think we spent much energy worrying about the exposure but it may be because our child was not present around that person. They didn't start requiring masking or anything like that, and I hope they don't do so now. Anyway I'm grateful the quarantine requirements are gone because that was horrible.

As far as isolation for the positive kid, the state is still recommending isolation for positive cases. We are currently isolating with a COVID positive young child who is not sick at all so I get that it is stressful and frustrating. But do you really want other kids to get sick and bring it home? It can still make many people severely ill. I think that requiring confirmed cases to stay home for 5 days is fairly reasonable.

[Anonymous]

I appreciate the notification but we don’t really modify plans much anymore, except to rapid test around day 5-7 and/or immediately before being in close contact with people. I don’t mind this protocol remaining.

[Anonymous]

We are still telling parents if the classroom had any exposure. So, if a child or teacher were at our preschool/childcare within 3 days of their testing positive for covid we'd tell the classroom where that child/teacher is. {and then those kids/teacher need to test to stay for several days each morning to attend)


We are NOT telling parents when a child/teacher was exposed to covid in his personal life (you were at a get together on the weekend, by Wednesday you are told someone there had covid but didn't know it)

We are also NOT telling people when a parent is positive - the child disappears for 5 days, but we don't make a big announcement any longer

We used to panic, just like everyone else, but this is here to stay... at some point we'll stop all the other stuff (test to stay, telling anyone anything, even eventually not worrying about close contacts) - not sure when - probably by next September