APS: What will happen if there is a COVID outbreak in a school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question--why would you quarantine if you're vaccinated? I know not all teachers are yet, but if they were?

Vaccines are not 100% effective. While the risk is very slim, if the teacher did not get full immunity they could still contract and transmit covid. Until we’ve gotten to the point of herd immunity, the safest course is to maintain our current level of precautions.

This. Until the science is clear that vaxxed people can’t transmit, our company quarantines staff who are 3xposed even if they are vaccinated. Better safe than sorry right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question--why would you quarantine if you're vaccinated? I know not all teachers are yet, but if they were?

Vaccines are not 100% effective. While the risk is very slim, if the teacher did not get full immunity they could still contract and transmit covid. Until we’ve gotten to the point of herd immunity, the safest course is to maintain our current level of precautions.

This. Until the science is clear that vaxxed people can’t transmit, our company quarantines staff who are 3xposed even if they are vaccinated. Better safe than sorry right now.

It’s not only that, you can still get symptoms after being vaccinated. You just are very unlikely to get extremely ill/hospitalized.

[Anonymous]

Here's an interesting piece from the Washington Post article today about the CDC announcement regarding vaccinated people... teachers who are vaccinated and exposed at school:

"The CDC also said fully vaccinated people can gather indoors with those who are also fully vaccinated. And they do not need to quarantine, or be tested after exposure to the coronavirus, if they have no symptoms."

[Anonymous]

CDC updated guidance this morning.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question--why would you quarantine if you're vaccinated? I know not all teachers are yet, but if they were?

Vaccines are not 100% effective. While the risk is very slim, if the teacher did not get full immunity they could still contract and transmit covid. Until we’ve gotten to the point of herd immunity, the safest course is to maintain our current level of precautions.

This. Until the science is clear that vaxxed people can’t transmit, our company quarantines staff who are 3xposed even if they are vaccinated. Better safe than sorry right now.

You "100% effective" people really need a reality check. I assume you don't drive cars, walk, run, ride bikes, have sex, or do anything else that involves some amount of risk, correct? 30% of the country is now immune. 65% of 65+ are vaccinated. It's time to move on with our lives. We have lost all ability to weigh relative risks. If you are vaccinated, go out to eat, go to school, and have fun. Congratulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honest question--why would you quarantine if you're vaccinated? I know not all teachers are yet, but if they were?

Vaccines are not 100% effective. While the risk is very slim, if the teacher did not get full immunity they could still contract and transmit covid. Until we’ve gotten to the point of herd immunity, the safest course is to maintain our current level of precautions.

This. Until the science is clear that vaxxed people can’t transmit, our company quarantines staff who are 3xposed even if they are vaccinated. Better safe than sorry right now.

You "100% effective" people really need a reality check. I assume you don't drive cars, walk, run, ride bikes, have sex, or do anything else that involves some amount of risk, correct? 30% of the country is now immune. 65% of 65+ are vaccinated. It's time to move on with our lives. We have lost all ability to weigh relative risks. If you are vaccinated, go out to eat, go to school, and have fun. Congratulations.

Except that none of the students in those classrooms will be vaccinated any time soon, and many of them will go home to parents and other families who also have not yet been vaccinated. I support reopening, and I support having as many teachers as possible teach in-person in the classroom. But if the plan is that potentially exposed teachers will also quarantine (which hasn't actually been established, people are just speculating), then I'm fine with that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Per the APS website, if there is a case of covid in a class, that whole class will move to virtual learning for 14 days. If there are multiple cases in a school, the response will depend on whether the cases appear to be linked. If so, the whole school may move back to virtual learning for some period of time.

What if it's in an MS or HS, where multiple students use the same classroom? Will all of those students have to move to virtual?

My understanding is that it will be just the students who were in class with the affected child. If there are indications that it spread to students in multiple classes due to a case in a single classroom, that would probably cause the whole school to shut down.

At our private, if the kids were together in the lunch room--they also go home for 14 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Per the APS website, if there is a case of covid in a class, that whole class will move to virtual learning for 14 days. If there are multiple cases in a school, the response will depend on whether the cases appear to be linked. If so, the whole school may move back to virtual learning for some period of time.

What if it's in an MS or HS, where multiple students use the same classroom? Will all of those students have to move to virtual?

My understanding is that it will be just the students who were in class with the affected child. If there are indications that it spread to students in multiple classes due to a case in a single classroom, that would probably cause the whole school to shut down.

At our private, if the kids were together in the lunch room--they also go home for 14 days.

My kid has been hybrid since September. And, only once had a kid test positive. Nobody else contracted it from him. Everyone in the kid's class or who ate in lunch room with him stayed home for 14 days.

[Anonymous]

Ventilation lady will lose her ever loving mind and call for everything to be shut down permanently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ventilation lady will lose her ever loving mind and call for everything to be shut down permanently.

So will ceramics teacher!

[Anonymous]

My kids have been in-person since August. We haven't had a COVID "outbreak" in school but there have been covid positives. In the instances, any student that has had "close contact" with the positive student quarantines for 14 days. The "close contact" is defined by student groupings. Each class is subdivided into smaller groupings and those students stay together all day, every day - lunch, recess, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ventilation lady will lose her ever loving mind and call for everything to be shut down permanently.

So will ceramics teacher!

I hope my children and family never cross educational paths with her at APS. I'm sure she feels the same about anyone who was in favor of schools opening, but, man, she has truly made an long enduring impression on everyone with all of her post and comments...