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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our daycare is saying that if a member of a child’s household tests positive for Covid, the child has to quarantine for at least 15 days, regardless of vaccination status.  Is this common practice elsewhere?  For other exposures (non-household member) vaccinated individuals don’t need to quarantine at all and unvaccinated would have the option to test out after 5 days (provided they can wear a mask).[/quote]

Regardless of vaccination status?  Maybe if they don't wear masks I can see why.  But aren't daycare kids under 5 and not eligible?  [/quote]

OP here- yes but many if not most of the kids in the older classes at our daycare already turned 5 and vaccinated, and this applies to them too.  I was also hopeful that when my DC is eligible for vaccination we’d be rid of these quarantines.

But point taken that it’s likely to spread within a house anyway- guess the hope would be that if it were to come to that DC would test positive before us.  I could just see this sort of policy leading to parents not really being truthful if they themselves test positive but not the kid.  [/quote]

I think its unreasonable if it's different than the CDC guidelines.  I would bring it up to the daycare.  One of the perks of getting the vaccine is not having to quarantine.  [/quote]

If a person is unvaccinated CDC guidance dictates a 5 day quarantine from the last day of close contact. Every day the person is in contact with the COVID positive person restarts the clock until the COVID positive case's isolation ends (after 10 days). For vaccinated people no quarantine applies, so that is where this policy diverges from the CDC.

FWIW our daycare has no such stated policy but I bet if I told the director one of us had COVID and we can't isolate, she's give similar guidance.[/quote]

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