If a child quarantines do the siblings have to quarantine too?

[Anonymous]

If a child is a close contact of a COVID case in school and is required to quarantine, are the siblings required to quarantine too, or can I send them to school?

[Anonymous]

Nope. They are a close contact of a close contact. No quarantine unless your child or the sibling starts to show symptoms

[Anonymous]

OP, think about what you’re asking. Your child was in close contact. You don’t know if your child now has covid, and they have to quarantine. What is going to give you and your other kids protection from possibly catching the possible
Covid from your quarantining child?

This absolutely sucks, but covid is going to be super inconvenient like this.

[Anonymous]

Well you should quarantine your kid who has to stay home within the house as much as possible but I don't think the siblings who were not otherwise exposed have to stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, think about what you’re asking. Your child was in close contact. You don’t know if your child now has covid, and they have to quarantine. What is going to give you and your other kids protection from possibly catching the possible
Covid from your quarantining child?

This absolutely sucks, but covid is going to be super inconvenient like this.

DCPS says I don’t have to quarantine them so they’re going to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, think about what you’re asking. Your child was in close contact. You don’t know if your child now has covid, and they have to quarantine. What is going to give you and your other kids protection from possibly catching the possible
Covid from your quarantining child?

This absolutely sucks, but covid is going to be super inconvenient like this.

DCPS says I don’t have to quarantine them so they’re going to school.

Wait - you're seriously sending a kid into school when they may be infected?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, think about what you’re asking. Your child was in close contact. You don’t know if your child now has covid, and they have to quarantine. What is going to give you and your other kids protection from possibly catching the possible
Covid from your quarantining child?

This absolutely sucks, but covid is going to be super inconvenient like this.

DCPS says I don’t have to quarantine them so they’re going to school.

Wait - you're seriously sending a kid into school when they may be infected?

If you're implying that every contact of a contact has to quarantine, you are basically asking for the whole country to constantly be quarantined

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, think about what you’re asking. Your child was in close contact. You don’t know if your child now has covid, and they have to quarantine. What is going to give you and your other kids protection from possibly catching the possible
Covid from your quarantining child?

This absolutely sucks, but covid is going to be super inconvenient like this.

DCPS says I don’t have to quarantine them so they’re going to school.

Wait - you're seriously sending a kid into school when they may be infected?

If you're implying that every contact of a contact has to quarantine, you are basically asking for the whole country to constantly be quarantined

I thought that was the purpose of quarantining: to severely limit the spread of the virus. Not just give it to everyone over a longer time period, which is what you're doing.

[Anonymous]

OP, test your kid who is a close contact, use rapid at home and also get a PCR test done. Meanwhile, follow the rules and send other kid to school, while trying to keep them apart in the house while you await test results.

That is what I practically speaking might do. I also might make my close contact kid wear a mask inside my house. The kids understand all about covid by now and they might complain a little but they would also probably try to do it. I think you can actually sort of quarantine one child in the house that way. Even my 4 year old is really aware of covid and all these procedures by now, and he does follow them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a child is a close contact of a COVID case in school and is required to quarantine, are the siblings required to quarantine too, or can I send them to school?

Are the vaccinated? If so then no.

[Anonymous]

I was in this situation with daycare. DS1 was excluded due to a child in the class testing positive, but I was told DS2 did not have to quarantine. I had them both tested immediately upon hearing about the positive case, and they were both negative. After I got the test results, I sent DS2 to daycare.

[Anonymous]

If there is a positive case in the house, the whole family should quarantine.

If one family member is a close contact to someone outside the house, the whole family does not have to quarantine.

[Anonymous]

What if one DC has cold like symptoms, and was not tested yet. No known exposure. Would you send the other DC to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if one DC has cold like symptoms, and was not tested yet. No known exposure. Would you send the other DC to school?

With clear symptoms, I'd have the symptomatic kid isolate as much as possible and go to same-day testing for everyone. When we went one afternoon, we got results back in the middle of the night.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know what is the APS policy? I can’t find anything on their website.