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[quote=Anonymous]My son contracted Covid last week. It’s the first time for him or anyone in my family (so far he’s the only one who tested positive, DH and I remain negative). He’s in 3rd grade and vaccinated and wears a mask in school and for extracurricular events. He had symptoms for two days - mostly a stuffy nose and a sore throat. By day 3 after he tested positive (we tested him the first day his symptoms showed up) he was completely fine. Stuffiness disappeared, no sore throat. At no point a fever and his appetite never waned.

If this were a regular cold or other ailment he could return to school after 24 hours after the last symptom. The only reason he had to stay home for a full week is because this is covid. We followed the protocol and notified our school he was positive.

Do you think we’ll get to the point where the severity of symptoms dictate when a child can return to school as we do with other ailments? It seems nuts that if symptoms are completely gone - or extremely mild - the student had to stay home. And while I appreciate the risk of contagion, isn’t that a reality for every ailment? Technically, you can spread a stomach virus for up to two weeks after symptoms dissipate but we aren’t keeping kids home for that long and instead schools emphasize - in theory anyway - hand washing, etc.

And please don’t come at me with any hostility. I realize that Covid variants differ, I’m a believer in masks and vaccines. But I’m also wondering about a future for kids where every time they come down with Covid - and realistically that can be multiple times - they stay home for a full week. That is incredibly disruptive especially when symptoms for my son were less severe than the last cold he had and I felt fine sending him to school on day 2 with some remaining congestion (he had no fever or coughing). [/quote]

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