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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny spent 3 hours in the ER with an ill family member.  The family member tested negative for COVID (multiple tests over a week while hospitalized).  Nanny asked if she should self-quarantine because of potential exposure from other patients in the ER.  I think she's fine to come back to work--she was masked the entire time she was in the ER, and my guess is that they seclude anyone suspected of having COVID very quickly.  That said, if she spent 3 hours at a bar, I wouldn't want her to come to work.  Thoughts?[/quote]

As someone who has dealt with her children being exposed to a known positive COVID case and her nanny being exposed to a known positive COVID case, I feel like I've been through this quite a bit in the last few months.

If you want my opinion, she doesn't need to quarantine [b]unless she knows someone in the ER that she was close to for more than 15 minutes was positive for COVID.[/b] However, if you want her to because the thought of worrying if your kid wakes up one morning with a runny nose, and if you can survive without your nanny for two weeks, then go ahead and have her do it (and pay her).

I hear you on the bar issue, although I'll say that that says more about her character and other choices, which is why it would bother me. From an exposure standpoint I do think the bar is riskier, but again, unless she was in contact with a known positive COVID case, she wouldn't need to quarantine.[/quote]

1) To the bolded-- how in the world would she know for sure if she was?

2) That 15 minutes/indoors is not only not a guarantee, but not even close to one. It's for contact tracing, because it would be WAY harder to contact trace if you had to consider everyone you might have spent &lt;15 minutes with.

3) OP, if you would have her quarantine in a bar, you should have her quarantine now (I would in either case). A bar might mean more masks, but by definition, it should mean fewer sick people, including people *actively ill* with COVID (coughing, etc.)-- either in the ER or who were recently in there. Or healthcare workers who are presymptomatic or whatever.

Doing the right thing can be inconvenient-- I recently canceled something I was looking forward to for what turned out to be allergies. But it's what we do to prevent further spread, and for peace of mind.  [/quote]

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