Has your daycare had a COVID positive?

[Anonymous]

Just this week for the first time. They closed just the one classroom, not the whole school.

[Anonymous]

Op you must be in the same daycare as us!

[Anonymous]

We have had 4. 3 teachers, 1 student. Different rooms. About one a month since September. Each room closed for each case, but there was one case (the student) where they closed 2 rooms due to sibling.

[Anonymous]

Ours has been open the whole time. They’ve had 2.

1. In about June. A part-time teacher. They quarantined the classroom she had been in. No one else got it.

2. About 3 weeks ago. An assistant teacher. Same deal with quarantining the classroom. No one else got it.

Both times, everyone in the classroom got PCR tests and quarantined for 14 days.

[Anonymous]

I'm in a different part of the country. My children's school has kids ages
15 months to 8th grade. We've only had one closure so far among the little kids.

The preschool classroom went remote for a week after one of the children was declared a probable COVID case, which our state requires schools to treat the same as a positive.

A toddler teacher tested positive earlier this year, but it was at the end of a long school break, so it didn't cause a closure.

[Anonymous]

No we are in Takoma park, not a single case so far.

[Anonymous]

We’re in Arlington. One case, a student.

[Anonymous]

For those with positive cases, how much information is your school telling you? Ours won’t even say whether it’s a student or teacher because of privacy concerns.

[Anonymous]

Daycare open the whole time. No cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those with positive cases, how much information is your school telling you? Ours won’t even say whether it’s a student or teacher because of privacy concerns.

We receive emails that specify which classroom the case was in and whether it was a staff member or a child. We have also received emails twice when parents of children tested positive.

[Anonymous]

Our small center in DC has been open since July with zero cases.

[Anonymous]

I think a better question is whether, when there is a case, it has spread at the school. That tells you whether the precautions the school is taking are working or not. Our school (in Arlington) has had one case. It didn’t spread. The school two blocks away had one case that quickly became 4 cases and then they shut down the school for two weeks (which was wise). I don’t know if it spread any further or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a better question is whether, when there is a case, it has spread at the school. That tells you whether the precautions the school is taking are working or not. Our school (in Arlington) has had one case. It didn’t spread. The school two blocks away had one case that quickly became 4 cases and then they shut down the school for two weeks (which was wise). I don’t know if it spread any further or not.

Eh I think there is too much randomness and luck involved. Some people spread the virus much more than others for poorly understood reasons.

Though the general mechanics that create respiratory aerosols are the same among people, a large amount of variation exists between how much spray individuals actually produce. Look at a crowd of people standing by a bus stop on a cold day, and you’ll notice everyone’s breath fog looks different in terms of size.

This shouldn’t be surprising, considering the complexity of the respiratory tract. Morawska uses the analogy of a perfume bottle’s more uniform mist: “Unlike in the perfume bottle, where there’s only one tube, there’s many different passages in the respiratory tract—passages of different widths and different lengths.”

To quantify this complexity even for a single person would be cumbersome, but scientists can still spot those who excel at making aerosols. In a 2019 study, Ristenpart and his colleagues showed that the louder someone speaks, the more aerosols they emit. However, the scientists also found that some participants in their study produced an order of magnitude more aerosols than others–even when speaking at the same volume. These people have become known as superemitters.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/10/why-people-are-coronavirus-superspreaders-how-body-emits-infectious-particles/#close

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think a better question is whether, when there is a case, it has spread at the school. That tells you whether the precautions the school is taking are working or not. Our school (in Arlington) has had one case. It didn’t spread. The school two blocks away had one case that quickly became 4 cases and then they shut down the school for two weeks (which was wise). I don’t know if it spread any further or not.

Eh I think there is too much randomness and luck involved. Some people spread the virus much more than others for poorly understood reasons.

You also can't tell where the virus spread if classmates' families socialize outside school. I know that happens a lot at our school, both with precautions and without.

[Anonymous]

Once. In home in Maryland. Shut down for two weeks.