Teacher tested positive!

[Anonymous]

My 4 year old's teacher tested positive a month ago. Not ONE kid (out of 15) or the other teacher got sick. They were all together for 6 hours and the kids aren't great at wearing masks because they're 4. This is a testament to masks and/or safety practices at our daycare.

[Anonymous]

My 2 year old's daycare teacher tested positive. The teachers and kids 3+ wear masks but 2 year olds do not. Not a single other teacher or kid tested positive in the entire preschool that goes up to age 5. Two year olds lick things for fun but appropriate precautions for everyone age 3+ resulted in zero spread within the school.

[Anonymous]

I think young kids is used to licking things, not clean, so they are less prone to get covid if there are some precautions and mask wearing practice.

[Anonymous]

The same happened at our preschool---the 3s teacher was positive but no one else caught it. I think it honestly validates the early data that young kids really arent that great at catching Covid unless it is from sustained close contact (like a parent or nanny).

[Anonymous]

You got lucky. Masks help but they are not a cure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You got lucky. Masks help but they are not a cure.

NP. It’s not luck. There has been an extremely, extremely low level of cases linked to preschools.

[Anonymous]

There have been 3 cases at my school

[Anonymous]

I’m glad.

But no, this is an anecdote. Not evidence of a trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You got lucky. Masks help but they are not a cure.

NP. It’s not luck. There has been an extremely, extremely low level of cases linked to preschools.

I don't know... 2 cases at sister's daycare so far...

[Anonymous]

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
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OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

[Anonymous]

Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Repeating things over and over doesn’t make them true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless all the kids were tested, you have no idea whether or not they had it. My sister and her DH tested positive. None of their kids showed any symptoms at all. All three tested positive.

In my center a 2 year old tested positive while symptomatic. All 7 other children and 5 adults were tested (some twice per their doctors’ instructions). All tested negative.

[Anonymous]

The class still would’ve had to quarantine since the CDC defined to close contact as somebody who has been together for 15 minutes regardless of masks. So I really hope that the whole room quarantined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Sigh. Slams head on keyboard.

Viral spread is driven by asymptomatic or low-symptom people. Young children are particularly prone to being asymptomatic carriers.

This has been repeated
Over and
Over and
Over and
Over.

OP, the virus circulated to such levels among the kids that an adult ended up testing positive.

Wouldn’t you expect parents to show symptoms then? Genuinely trying to understand.