Teacher tests positive Covid- exposed on weekend

[Anonymous]

OP can you please give more details? I do not understand how the teacher could have been exposed on Saturday and already know to stay home on Monday morning. That means the teacher was around someone on Saturday then got a call on Sunday that the person she was around the day before had Covid? That means she was with someone who was waiting for a test result and knew that? If it was a grocery store type of situation she wouldn’t have known. It’s statistically very likely that the teacher already had Covid when at school on Friday. It sounds like the teacher was incredibly irresponsible and the school is being far too cavalier about it. I would have taken my kid out on Monday but now I guess what is done is done. Hopefully the school has very robust distancing and mask requirements.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully the school and Dept of Health are handling the situation correctly as well as keeping the parents informed

[Anonymous]

Our school has dealt with covid+ teachers 5 times in the past 6 months. In all cases, the health department required all who came into contact with the teacher, plus siblings of those students, to quarantine for two weeks. They start the clock at 2 days PRIOR to the positive test. So, for example, if the teacher tested positive on Friday, then anyone who came into contact with that teacher on Wednesday or Thursday is required to quarantine for 2 weeks from date of last contact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school has dealt with covid+ teachers 5 times in the past 6 months. In all cases, the health department required all who came into contact with the teacher, plus siblings of those students, to quarantine for two weeks. They start the clock at 2 days PRIOR to the positive test. So, for example, if the teacher tested positive on Friday, then anyone who came into contact with that teacher on Wednesday or Thursday is required to quarantine for 2 weeks from date of last contact.

Why siblings? They are a secondary contact. And why not parents then? My DD teacher was positive and she was the only one who had to quarantine per health department. In MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP can you please give more details? I do not understand how the teacher could have been exposed on Saturday and already know to stay home on Monday morning. That means the teacher was around someone on Saturday then got a call on Sunday that the person she was around the day before had Covid? That means she was with someone who was waiting for a test result and knew that? If it was a grocery store type of situation she wouldn’t have known. It’s statistically very likely that the teacher already had Covid when at school on Friday. It sounds like the teacher was incredibly irresponsible and the school is being far too cavalier about it. I would have taken my kid out on Monday but now I guess what is done is done. Hopefully the school has very robust distancing and mask requirements.

+1 The timeline makes almost no sense. From a viral count point of view, there's just no way a rapid test on Sunday would turn up exposure from Saturday. It doesn't work like that.