What is the correct procedure in this situation?

[Anonymous]

Close family member of a child who attends daycare tests positive for Covid. The child who attends tests negative. The timing and details are all a bit sketchy, so it’s unclear if there would have been enough time for virus to incubate in child before they were tested. Child may have continued to attend daycare while awaiting test results.

What should the daycare do in this case being asking the child with infected family member to quarantine at home? Ask them to get tested again in a couple weeks before returning? Should other kids at the daycare get tested and/or should daycare close for a week or two, just in case?

[Anonymous]

Daycare should ask that kid be kept home for two weeks and then tested for and get a negative test result. Daycare should close for those two weeks and do at least two deep cleans before kids come back.

[Anonymous]

The daycare should consult the local health department for guidance.

Typically, contacts of a contact are not told to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Director here (DC). Kid out for 14 days minimum, can return with doctor’s note once the household member tests negative. (You said “close” family member-is it a member of the kid’s household? If not kid quarantines 14 days since date of last contact.) Other kids in class can continue to attend unless original kid tests positive. In that case they’d quarantine for 14 days from date of last contact with positive kid.

BTW, you may not personally like the above, but it is procedure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Director here (DC). Kid out for 14 days minimum, can return with doctor’s note once the household member tests negative. (You said “close” family member-is it a member of the kid’s household? If not kid quarantines 14 days since date of last contact.) Other kids in class can continue to attend unless original kid tests positive. In that case they’d quarantine for 14 days from date of last contact with positive kid.

BTW, you may not personally like the above, but it is procedure.

I think this is the protocol at our in-home daycare. There was a similar situation where a sibling tested positive but no one else. Honestly it was probably more nerve-wracking than it had to be because director did not provide much info and neither did the parents (it didn't take much detective work to figure out who it was). So the rest of us ended up keeping our kids home for a week and getting tests just in case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daycare should ask that kid be kept home for two weeks and then tested for and get a negative test result. Daycare should close for those two weeks and do at least two deep cleans before kids come back.

The kid can be home for two weeks + negative result. Daycare ROOM is closed for two weeks. Deep clean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Director here (DC). Kid out for 14 days minimum, can return with doctor’s note once the household member tests negative. (You said “close” family member-is it a member of the kid’s household? If not kid quarantines 14 days since date of last contact.) Other kids in class can continue to attend unless original kid tests positive. In that case they’d quarantine for 14 days from date of last contact with positive kid.

BTW, you may not personally like the above, but it is procedure.

I think this is the protocol at our in-home daycare. There was a similar situation where a sibling tested positive but no one else. Honestly it was probably more nerve-wracking than it had to be because director did not provide much info and neither did the parents (it didn't take much detective work to figure out who it was). So the rest of us ended up keeping our kids home for a week and getting tests just in case.

Health information is private. Nobody should have the expectation of knowing which specific child had COVID/was exposed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Director here (DC). Kid out for 14 days minimum, can return with doctor’s note once the household member tests negative. (You said “close” family member-is it a member of the kid’s household? If not kid quarantines 14 days since date of last contact.) Other kids in class can continue to attend unless original kid tests positive. In that case they’d quarantine for 14 days from date of last contact with positive kid.

BTW, you may not personally like the above, but it is procedure.

I think this is the protocol at our in-home daycare. There was a similar situation where a sibling tested positive but no one else. Honestly it was probably more nerve-wracking than it had to be because director did not provide much info and neither did the parents (it didn't take much detective work to figure out who it was). So the rest of us ended up keeping our kids home for a week and getting tests just in case.

I just wanna point out that the director should never be giving out health information about any child. So they were correct and not letting anybody know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Director here (DC). Kid out for 14 days minimum, can return with doctor’s note once the household member tests negative. (You said “close” family member-is it a member of the kid’s household? If not kid quarantines 14 days since date of last contact.) Other kids in class can continue to attend unless original kid tests positive. In that case they’d quarantine for 14 days from date of last contact with positive kid.

BTW, you may not personally like the above, but it is procedure.

I think this is the protocol at our in-home daycare. There was a similar situation where a sibling tested positive but no one else. Honestly it was probably more nerve-wracking than it had to be because director did not provide much info and neither did the parents (it didn't take much detective work to figure out who it was). So the rest of us ended up keeping our kids home for a week and getting tests just in case.

I just wanna point out that the director should never be giving out health information about any child. So they were correct and not letting anybody know.

PP here, sorry I wasn't really clear. I didn't expect our provider to divulge the name, but in this situation, we found out on the weekend that the sibling had tested positive and the child who actually attended was negative. But for example, we asked when the child had been tested and if they had still been attending while waiting test results and she couldn't tell us, yet planned to reopen the daycare the following Monday. The parents started an email chain about it and collectively decided to stay home for a week and test. The family in question never chimed in to clear up the confusion, never said anything after they came back.

It's a tough situation but it just gave me little confidence over how these situations will be handled.