MCPS will now send kids home for ten days based on symptoms only

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Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

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McCoy’s does very little, very little to protect our kids.

Stupid McCoys. The Hatfields are useless too.

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Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

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McCoy’s does very little, very little to protect our kids.

Stupid McCoys. The Hatfields are useless too.

Did they start DCUM?

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Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

Maybe if you’re only thinking of yourself, there’s no benefit to a rapid test for symptomatic kids at school.

But the classroom full of kids who would otherwise have to quarantine and miss several days of school while you wait for the PCR test probably see a huge benefit. Well, their parents would, anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

Maybe if you’re only thinking of yourself, there’s no benefit to a rapid test for symptomatic kids at school.

But the classroom full of kids who would otherwise have to quarantine and miss several days of school while you wait for the PCR test probably see a huge benefit. Well, their parents would, anyway.

The class doesn’t have to quarantine if the parents refuse the rapid test. Did you read the policy?

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And the rapid tests are not really reliable...

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Anonymous wrote:And the rapid tests are not really reliable...

How so? The rapid tests are good at detecting infectious cases, which is mostly all you should be worried about. Both the antigen and PCRs suffer from false positives. The rate of false positives is low, but given how low the case numbers are, a positive test still has a good chance of being a false positive.

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Anonymous wrote:No one can confirm anything because details have not been released and knowing MCPS, I imagine there is no implementation plan yet.

Honestly, this is what annoys me the most about all of this. They had 18 MONTHS to figure this out, and release a half baked plan one week into school with no idea how they are going to implement it. The incompetence is really unbelievable at this point.

Were you expecting something different? They don't want to know the spread or they'd have to close down schools. The best way to keep them open is to pretend there is no covid/spread. Our school said they will start testing when they get the tests but haven't gotten them yet. Parents need to test their own kids.

They also changed the dashboard to hide all the summer covid positives.

If they wanted to pretend there was no spread than why are they sending entire classes home? It seems to me like they are overestimating the potential spread.

That's just a BS line from the keep schools closed forever crowd. Testing has never been a priority in our national plan, and MCPS is no different. However, there absolutely should have been a plan to test symptomatic kids and to test close contacts with rapid tests to allow them to continue coming to school.

There are only about 3-4K kids in virtual academy so stop making up non-sense when MCPS has made provisions for families whose kids do better in virtual or want a safer environment. Testing is a recommendation in keeping kids safe given how large our schools are. Given its opt-in and many families are refusing, it just speaks volumes to those families behavior that puts all our kids at risk. If you are behaving appropriately, you'd support testing and have no issue with it as you'd want to keep all kids safe. So, the only way to do it now is to pretend there is no spread. The way to say no spread is no testing. Many families will not take their kids to test so no covid. And, if your kids get covid, oh well... right, its only the sniffles anyway. Although the parents of the dead kids all over the world might tell you differently or the parents of kids who have long term health issues.

Yawn. Don't you ever get tired of saying the same thing over and over again? Step away from your job at the troll farm and work on improving your English. You will be more effective in spreading your fear and misinformation if you improve your writing skills. Aim higher.

It's not "misinformation," you willfully ignorant denialist. NP

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Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

I disagree. My kid with symptoms got a rapid antigen test at school, and it was very reassuring to have that negative result as we waited about 24 hours for the result from the PCR test (which was also negative).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

I disagree. My kid with symptoms got a rapid antigen test at school, and it was very reassuring to have that negative result as we waited about 24 hours for the result from the PCR test (which was also negative).

What would you have done differently if the rapid test had been positive?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

I disagree. My kid with symptoms got a rapid antigen test at school, and it was very reassuring to have that negative result as we waited about 24 hours for the result from the PCR test (which was also negative).

What would you have done differently if the rapid test had been positive?

All of the things you're supposed to do if a family member tests positive for covid... I would have thought that went without saying?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

I disagree. My kid with symptoms got a rapid antigen test at school, and it was very reassuring to have that negative result as we waited about 24 hours for the result from the PCR test (which was also negative).

What would you have done differently if the rapid test had been positive?

All of the things you're supposed to do if a family member tests positive for covid... I would have thought that went without saying?

You're supposed to do most of those things while waiting for PCR results. The only exceptions would be with unvaccinated family members.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign the form for rapid testing. It was just emailed.

It's a consent form for rapid AND screening testing. Consolidated into one form. Clever!

Right. There’s absolutely no reason to sign the form. There’s no benefit to the rapid antigen test when you need a PCR to return. And if you want to do the rapid test anyway, you can give verbal consent over the phone.

I disagree. My kid with symptoms got a rapid antigen test at school, and it was very reassuring to have that negative result as we waited about 24 hours for the result from the PCR test (which was also negative).

What would you have done differently if the rapid test had been positive?

All of the things you're supposed to do if a family member tests positive for covid... I would have thought that went without saying?

You're supposed to do most of those things while waiting for PCR results. The only exceptions would be with unvaccinated family members.

Says who? Could you please show me the guidance that says to ignore the results of a rapid antigen test, if it's positive?