Did your child test positive or negative on the rapid test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Negative for my three kids. I have to wonder what good this serves. There’s no tracking, no mandate that parents use the tests, no requirement that you have proof of a negative test before walking in the door tomorrow.

Just a waste of resources and a grand gesture of nothing.

The issue is it requires parents to, I don’t know, be responsible?? We are literally giving every single student a free test and asking their adult to report. I agree many won’t do it but that isn’t really a failure on mcps’s part. And don’t take that as excusing mcps for its many, many errors in the last week. This just isn’t one of them.

I would prefer if everyone who didn’t report test results not be allowed back in school but that’s not the route they took.

The problem is that the tests aren't particularly sensitive in asymptomatic individuals. So it will be good if it flags some kids with very mild symptoms they were ignoring, that's bettr than nothing, but required pcr ought to be the way to go here. Of course, it would probably take a month to organize testing for all that.

I can't believe 2 years into the pandemic we are still hung up on testing shortages and limitations.

DP and right. If asymptomatic kids taking one rapid test is how we define “responsible” around COVID, well, that explains a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For everyone noting that you've been careful, please be aware that unless you literally are not going anywhere (grocery store, school, etc.) it likely is just luck and not your preventative measures with omicron. I have two extended family members who had literally only been around other people for a quick, n95 masked with eye glasses trip to grocery stores, both got COVID in the past week. Someone up thread mentioned they were careful except for a masked indoor sport; that was us, child caught it from sport while wearing a mask, and then the whole family got it. My point is that being careful doesn't work anymore unless it means complete isolation.

No this is mathematically wrong. Omicron is more contagious but not impossible to avoid. More people who thought they were being safe will get it, but NOT all, but spreading this disinformation will only lead people to drop precautions which will make things worse. Anything we can do to reduce the spread, even a little, will help. You may still get unlucky but being careful DOES help!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Despite having 1 kid test positive on Friday by pcr, the other 3 tested negative with the mcps tests tonight. I’m dubious. How aren’t my other kids sick?

I’ve had one kid test positive over a week ago. The rest of us didn’t get it at all despite never being apart from him. He has no symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Surely there was a better more secure way to handle the reporting of the rapid test results than with an enormous google document with students personal information?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For everyone noting that you've been careful, please be aware that unless you literally are not going anywhere (grocery store, school, etc.) it likely is just luck and not your preventative measures with omicron. I have two extended family members who had literally only been around other people for a quick, n95 masked with eye glasses trip to grocery stores, both got COVID in the past week. Someone up thread mentioned they were careful except for a masked indoor sport; that was us, child caught it from sport while wearing a mask, and then the whole family got it. My point is that being careful doesn't work anymore unless it means complete isolation.

No this is mathematically wrong. Omicron is more contagious but not impossible to avoid. More people who thought they were being safe will get it, but NOT all, but spreading this disinformation will only lead people to drop precautions which will make things worse. Anything we can do to reduce the spread, even a little, will help. You may still get unlucky but being careful DOES help!

I had a symptomatic daughter who had it right before Christmas and no one else caught it in our house. Now my youngest son tested positive yesterday on the test they brought home from school. The only place he has gone was school for 2 days last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For everyone noting that you've been careful, please be aware that unless you literally are not going anywhere (grocery store, school, etc.) it likely is just luck and not your preventative measures with omicron. I have two extended family members who had literally only been around other people for a quick, n95 masked with eye glasses trip to grocery stores, both got COVID in the past week. Someone up thread mentioned they were careful except for a masked indoor sport; that was us, child caught it from sport while wearing a mask, and then the whole family got it. My point is that being careful doesn't work anymore unless it means complete isolation.

No this is mathematically wrong. Omicron is more contagious but not impossible to avoid. More people who thought they were being safe will get it, but NOT all, but spreading this disinformation will only lead people to drop precautions which will make things worse. Anything we can do to reduce the spread, even a little, will help. You may still get unlucky but being careful DOES help!

I had a symptomatic daughter who had it right before Christmas and no one else caught it in our house. Now my youngest son tested positive yesterday on the test they brought home from school. The only place he has gone was school for 2 days last week.

Yes, and? Vaccines and masks still have a protective effect, just don’t as much with Omicron. And if you didn’t test everyone in the family after your daughter got it - we are barely two weeks past Christmas, so he probably caught it from her (or you got an asymptomatic case from her and passed it on to him). Or he caught it at lunch at school last week.

It’s still important to take (reasonable) precautions. No, *everyone* does not have to get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For everyone noting that you've been careful, please be aware that unless you literally are not going anywhere (grocery store, school, etc.) it likely is just luck and not your preventative measures with omicron. I have two extended family members who had literally only been around other people for a quick, n95 masked with eye glasses trip to grocery stores, both got COVID in the past week. Someone up thread mentioned they were careful except for a masked indoor sport; that was us, child caught it from sport while wearing a mask, and then the whole family got it. My point is that being careful doesn't work anymore unless it means complete isolation.

Well, nobody can completely isolate if kids are in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We traveled over the holidays.

Last week: one was negative, the other positive (with symptoms).
Haven't tested the negative DC again yet. We are not going to test the positive DC for at least 90 days, per guidelines.

Ancedotal: my friends kids are both positive, no symptoms.

Not testing children who have been positive in the last 90 days is only for PCR testing, it does not apply to the antigen tests that MCPS sent home.

? but the antigen test would pickup traces, no?

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We traveled over the holidays.

Last week: one was negative, the other positive (with symptoms).
Haven't tested the negative DC again yet. We are not going to test the positive DC for at least 90 days, per guidelines.

Ancedotal: my friends kids are both positive, no symptoms.

Not testing children who have been positive in the last 90 days is only for PCR testing, it does not apply to the antigen tests that MCPS sent home.

? but the antigen test would pickup traces, no?

No

Correct. The antigen test looks for the protein produced whenever the virus replicates, so it’s a good gauge of current, infectious Covid cases. PCR looks for the virus itself, so it can sometimes pick up traces of previous infections that are no longer actively replicating (infectious).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Despite having 1 kid test positive on Friday by pcr, the other 3 tested negative with the mcps tests tonight. I’m dubious. How aren’t my other kids sick?

I’ve had one kid test positive over a week ago. The rest of us didn’t get it at all despite never being apart from him. He has no symptoms.

Vaccines for the win!

[Anonymous]

We tested negative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite having 1 kid test positive on Friday by pcr, the other 3 tested negative with the mcps tests tonight. I’m dubious. How aren’t my other kids sick?

I’ve had one kid test positive over a week ago. The rest of us didn’t get it at all despite never being apart from him. He has no symptoms.

Vaccines for the win!

Nah, that is just luck. Covid is spreading in plenty of vaccinated families.

[Anonymous]

My elementary schooler tested negative.

[Anonymous]

Two ES kids, both tested positve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite having 1 kid test positive on Friday by pcr, the other 3 tested negative with the mcps tests tonight. I’m dubious. How aren’t my other kids sick?

I’ve had one kid test positive over a week ago. The rest of us didn’t get it at all despite never being apart from him. He has no symptoms.

Vaccines for the win!

Nah, that is just luck. Covid is spreading in plenty of vaccinated families.

But spreading far more in unvaccinated families.