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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First of all, Saturday (onset symptoms) is day 0. So she at least needs to stay home tomorrow (Thursday) to properly follow cdc and mcps guidelines. According to mcps guidelines she can come back Friday in a well-fitted mask. According to cdc guidelines, if you do decide to test on day 5 (optional) and it’s positive you are supposed to isolate the full 10 days. Those are the actual guidelines.

Ethically she should not come back to school if she is still testing positive because she is still contagious regardless of her symptoms. In reality, I think many people would ignore ethics and send the child back to school as soon as the school will have her.

If it were me, I’d test her again Friday AM and if still positive, keep home through the weekend. Ymmv. [/quote]

Thank you all for your comments. She’ll stay home tomorrow and I’ll call the nurse to ask. I’ve spent the last twenty minutes online and even the cdc guidelines don’t say a negative test is required to return to school. They have a great flowchart but it doesn’t address this question. I thought we were following all the rules based on the multiple emails I’ve received from school. The only reason I questioned this is because my friend’s kid at another school in our cluster is required to show a negative test to reenter school. [/quote]

Neither the cdc nor mcps requires a negative test to re-enter school. Cdc made the policy during the winter omicron wave when it was hard to get a test (and they wouldn’t admit they were caught without ample test infrastructure) so if they required everyone to test out of isolation, the test scarcity would have caused an extra barrier to staffing issues (remember there were no bus drivers?). Your friend’s kid’s school may have gone rogue and required a negative test, but that contradicts official mcps policy. That said, mcps has been doing some case-by-case stuff lately that doesn’t match their official district policy, so your best resource (as you know) is the school nurse. [/quote]

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