No care for over a month

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d ask them to consider implementing a test to stay policy for exposures. 10 days each time is untenable.

OP here - This is a daycare located in DC. The Director says they have to follow OSSE regulations and since OSSE hasn’t approved test to stay and is still mandating 10 days of closure for a case in a classroom, they can’t do test to stay or shorten the quarantine period. I’ve searched everywhere online to find literature from OSSE that supports this or something that negates it and I can’t find anything definitive.

I’m sure there are many parents at our facility that would be OK with shortening the quarantine period or implementing test to stay but the Director says that ultimately it’s not her decision.

It’s not up to the parents. Get a nanny.

[Anonymous]

If anyone following lives in MoCo, please see the below action alert about the county's new isolation and quarantine guidance for childcare centers.

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Bad news: MoCo released updated quarantine and isolation guidance yesterday (https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/Resources/Files/quarantine/I-Q-guidance-schools-childcare.pdf) that deviates from the CDC and Maryland state guidance (https://health.maryland.gov/phpa/Documents/01.06.2022%20Memo%20School%20Childcare%20Guidance.pdf) by imposing a 10 (vs. 5) day quarantine for exposed children under 5.

This policy will unnecessarily crush working families. Please urgently reach out the officials below via email and Twitter.

Here are sample messages to send:

"@MoCoDHHS is contradicting the state and CDC by requiring a 10 (vs. 5) day quarantine for children <5. This is unconscionable & will cause the collapse of childcare as an essential service, cost parents their jobs, & drive flight from MoCo daycares. Please help."

"If @MoCoDHHS' rationale is that kids under 5 don’t mask all day, note that MD's guidance accounts for this fact. And ask your colleagues to reckon with the cruelty of forcibly masking toddlers and preschoolers while imposing policies that treat them as if they’re fully unmasked."

"Please revise this guidance immediately to align with the rest of the state, and to make clear to childcare providers that they can combine a shortened quarantine period with test-to-stay, which was recently approved by the CDC for unvaccinated children and is being implemented in D.C. daycares."

And the list of officials to contact:

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[Anonymous]

Given that your daycare has had a number of positives, if the same class has to quarantine again and again, how do they handle the kids who recently had covid? That must be happening.