What illness is this going around schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

Another teacher here. I've had a cold+allergy combo for over a week now. Lots of post nasal drip, stuffed up sinuses, sneezes, coughing. I test myself with rapids and PCR, - negative. I think I'm starting to come out of it now. *fingers crossed*

[Anonymous]

My 4 year old just had this--cough, sniffles, then a fever of 102 on one day, then lingering cough. We went through like 6 rapid tests over the course of a week and all negative. Nobody else in our family got it.

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher, I had it last week, mostly a dry cough at night, kicked that in about two days. PK child was out a few days due to the cough, wife has it now but is recovering.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not COVID (though there is COVID going around). But lots of kids and parents at my school are getting fever, cough, congestion for a week (and testing negative for COVID). Is this going around all of DC? Could it be flu?

Sinus and Allergy issues

People always post allergies. Allergies do not cause a fever. Severe allergies could lead to a sinus infection with a fever but that wouldn’t be contagious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

I was going to say the same thing, why are you going to work sick? Leave is there for a reason....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

I was going to say the same thing, why are you going to work sick? Leave is there for a reason....

I’m not the teacher you’re responding to but a different sick one who posted. Taking leave now feels like a huge burden to my team and the staff as a whole. I already have 1 team mate out for covid. And across the school we are staffed so thin that office staff and cafeteria workers have had to step in. It’s really rough. There is no support.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

I was going to say the same thing, why are you going to work sick? Leave is there for a reason....

I’m not the teacher you’re responding to but a different sick one who posted. Taking leave now feels like a huge burden to my team and the staff as a whole. I already have 1 team mate out for covid. And across the school we are staffed so thin that office staff and cafeteria workers have had to step in. It’s really rough. There is no support.

Stop sacrificing your health and well-being for a job that would replace you in a second. Look at how some of these parents talk about teachers! Please put yourself first. Admin get paid the big bucks to figure out coverage.

[Anonymous]

My DC PK3 has this now started last week. Low grade fever, bad cough and congestion, multiple negative COVID tests. COVID was in class so last week school tested the kids multiple times for test to stay. DC is definitely getting better but how long do they have to stay home, 1 cough and an hour, mucus completely gone? DC also has bad allergies so if they have to be completely dry, DC would only be in school like 2 months a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had those same symptoms for 5 days in April. I tested myself everyday and kept testing negative for COVID. On the 6th day, when my symptoms were resolving and I was feeling much better, I finally tested positive. I tested positive for the following 8 days and had very mild symptoms during that time. My husband then went through the same symptoms and got positive test result a week after me.

Just FYI...it could be COVID

Out of curiosity, why did you keep testing every day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My child just had this. Negative for flu, strep and covid. A few kids in her class have covid, including one who sits next to her. They are unmasked. My theory is that she actually had covid, but her prior infection and vaccines allowed her to fight it off so that it never showed positive on a test.

You think she had covid even though she tested negative for covid? Did you do a PCR?

why do we live in the upside-down world.

NP but your viral load can be low enough to not be picked up by a rapid

Yes, we did multiple rapids and a pcr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had those same symptoms for 5 days in April. I tested myself everyday and kept testing negative for COVID. On the 6th day, when my symptoms were resolving and I was feeling much better, I finally tested positive. I tested positive for the following 8 days and had very mild symptoms during that time. My husband then went through the same symptoms and got positive test result a week after me.

Just FYI...it could be COVID

Out of curiosity, why did you keep testing every day?

I’m the OP you’re responding to. I knew my symptoms matched with COVID and I couldn’t understand how I was testing negative. I live across the street from a DC COVID center, so picking up rapid tests daily wasn’t an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher who is living with it right now. It’s gross and I wish it were covid so I could stop going into work while coughing up phlegm

I hope you feel better. FYI you can still take sick leave if you're sick, doesn't have to be COVID.

I was going to say the same thing, why are you going to work sick? Leave is there for a reason....

I’m not the teacher you’re responding to but a different sick one who posted. Taking leave now feels like a huge burden to my team and the staff as a whole. I already have 1 team mate out for covid. And across the school we are staffed so thin that office staff and cafeteria workers have had to step in. It’s really rough. There is no support.

Teacher you were responding to, but I agree 100% with this response. Its almost like if we don't have Covid we can't take off because there are already so many out with Covid that we are hanging by a thread.

[Anonymous]

It's influenza a - everyone thinks it's just the Flu but for my family it was really bad. We all had high fevers for a week and still now cough and congestion. We usually get our flu shots although apparently this year, we didn't (covid made the years blend together!) Lots of people die of the flu every year - now I understand why.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not COVID (though there is COVID going around). But lots of kids and parents at my school are getting fever, cough, congestion for a week (and testing negative for COVID). Is this going around all of DC? Could it be flu?

Sinus and Allergy issues

People always post allergies. Allergies do not cause a fever. Severe allergies could lead to a sinus infection with a fever but that wouldn’t be contagious

Sinus infections have the same symptoms as Covid in some cases. Actually similar to the flu also so not out of the question.