Why are you still telling daycare that your kid tested positive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

Also, a positive case gets you out of future quarantines for 90 days! So if your kid has to stay home anyway of course it's to your advantage to report it. It just sucks for everyone else.

Some places, yes. A lot of daycares in MoCo weren't doing that for kids, though.

Yup-OP here. Our daycare still requires the whole class to quarantine even if you had Covid in the last 90 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But let's say Larla brings in covid on Monday. She only gave it to Tommy. If Tommy had stayed home, then he wouldn't have given it to Harry Sally and teacher Karen on Friday.

+1 my kid tested positive one day and I immediately notified the school and her close contacts. One other kid (Kid B) got it and that was it. Kid B’s mon continued to send Kid B’s twin into school despite being a close contact (Kid B ended up testing positive after 2 days) and a third of Kid B’s class ended up testing positive after 4 days. Plus a number the parents of those kids got CoViD and despite being vaxxed some of them got CoViD much more strongly than their kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

I’d roll the dice—if your kid gets sick Thursday or Friday, then you don’t need a doctor’s note. Earlier in the week, I’d claim you had to leave town suddenly to visit an elderly relative who took a turn for the worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But let's say Larla brings in covid on Monday. She only gave it to Tommy. If Tommy had stayed home, then he wouldn't have given it to Harry Sally and teacher Karen on Friday.

+1 my kid tested positive one day and I immediately notified the school and her close contacts. One other kid (Kid B) got it and that was it. Kid B’s mon continued to send Kid B’s twin into school despite being a close contact (Kid B ended up testing positive after 2 days) and a third of Kid B’s class ended up testing positive after 4 days. Plus a number the parents of those kids got CoViD and despite being vaxxed some of them got CoViD much more strongly than their kids

OK, but the risk of secondary transmission at daycares is dwarfed by the overall risk of COVID in the community at-large. It's ridiculous to specifically target the lowest risk group with the most disruptive policies. Classroom-wide quarantines are far too blunt an instrument, and ultimately do more harm than good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

I’d roll the dice—if your kid gets sick Thursday or Friday, then you don’t need a doctor’s note. Earlier in the week, I’d claim you had to leave town suddenly to visit an elderly relative who took a turn for the worse.

100% you just need to get creative. We have had "relatives visiting", "needing to go out of town for a funeral", "family wedding across the country". So many reasons we couldn't be in school that didn't mean other parents had to miss working to provide for their family.

It's not 2020. The constant absences from work are no longer universally acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But let's say Larla brings in covid on Monday. She only gave it to Tommy. If Tommy had stayed home, then he wouldn't have given it to Harry Sally and teacher Karen on Friday.

+1 my kid tested positive one day and I immediately notified the school and her close contacts. One other kid (Kid B) got it and that was it. Kid B’s mon continued to send Kid B’s twin into school despite being a close contact (Kid B ended up testing positive after 2 days) and a third of Kid B’s class ended up testing positive after 4 days. Plus a number the parents of those kids got CoViD and despite being vaxxed some of them got CoViD much more strongly than their kids

OK, but the risk of secondary transmission at daycares is dwarfed by the overall risk of COVID in the community at-large. It's ridiculous to specifically target the lowest risk group with the most disruptive policies. Classroom-wide quarantines are far too blunt an instrument, and ultimately do more harm than good.

+1 absolutely agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

That Maryland thing hasn’t been true at the four daycares I have used, two during Covid. They are just saying that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But let's say Larla brings in covid on Monday. She only gave it to Tommy. If Tommy had stayed home, then he wouldn't have given it to Harry Sally and teacher Karen on Friday.

+1 my kid tested positive one day and I immediately notified the school and her close contacts. One other kid (Kid B) got it and that was it. Kid B’s mon continued to send Kid B’s twin into school despite being a close contact (Kid B ended up testing positive after 2 days) and a third of Kid B’s class ended up testing positive after 4 days. Plus a number the parents of those kids got CoViD and despite being vaxxed some of them got CoViD much more strongly than their kids

OK, but the risk of secondary transmission at daycares is dwarfed by the overall risk of COVID in the community at-large. It's ridiculous to specifically target the lowest risk group with the most disruptive policies. Classroom-wide quarantines are far too blunt an instrument, and ultimately do more harm than good.

Yep. Classes close, only for families to decide to go to the beach or fly maskless to grandma for the week. It’s not helping at all bc this is literally the only institution that still cares. Literally.

[Anonymous]

Agree I wish people would just test less but stay home when actually sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

That Maryland thing hasn’t been true at the four daycares I have used, two during Covid. They are just saying that.

It's actually a regulation:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/maryland/COMAR-13A-16-11-01
C. A child may not be readmitted to care after an absence of 3 days or more due to illness without a written statement from the parent or physician that the child may return to a regular schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have had a lot of "ear infections" and "tummy aches". Though, that's mostly because if you reported any symptom on the list of possible COVID symptoms they daycare required a PCR test to return. I've spent over $1,000 on rapid turnaround PCR tests for that reason. Lately I've just been reporting a different symptom and using a rapid test.

The problem with the OP's comment is that, at least in Maryland, you need a doctors note to return if you miss 3 days of daycare. The other problem is that you're incentivized to report the case early because the 5-10 day isolation clock starts on the day you say symptoms started or a positive test.

I was able to bypass this when my kid got it. With the weekend, it worked out such that I could say she didn't test positive until >48 hours after she was last at daycare without impacting her return date.

That Maryland thing hasn’t been true at the four daycares I have used, two during Covid. They are just saying that.

It's actually a regulation:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/maryland/COMAR-13A-16-11-01
C. A child may not be readmitted to care after an absence of 3 days or more due to illness without a written statement from the parent or physician that the child may return to a regular schedule.

And now that I read that, I see my center just dropped the "parent" option off... grrrr

[Anonymous]

Because most kids aren't catching it from daycare, they are catching it from their parents and older siblings.

[Anonymous]

Agreed! Time to change the covid polices. I work in an icu and we have zero covid! Everyone can vaccinate now. Let’s end this.

[Anonymous]

Our work daycare stopped closing for this reason. They just notify, ask people to test, but otherwise continue as normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the point? The other kids were already all exposed as well as the teachers. Just tell school your child has an ear infection/you are on vacation and call it a day. It doesn't actually prevent anything and instead just makes every other family struggle. And if the other kids are going to get Covid-they are going to get it regardless of having to stay out of school for 10 days.

There is literally no point to this anymore.

Signed,
An exhausted mom who was just notified of the 5th 10 day quarantine in less than a year the same week I am starting a new job.

That doesnt fly for our school. We are required to bring a doctors note stating that it isnt something other than COVID if he is sick. And no one will believe we are on vacation, maybe that works for summer but it doesnt fly for the rest of the year. Not only that but my kid will be like- I missed you so and so but I got to watch TV for 8 hours with Mommy.