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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like they’re shifting policy to reflect that [b]rapids oftentimes aren’t working on this strain[/b] and need PCR to diagnose. They’ve likely had an uptick in illness they’re trying to curb as well. I had a child home the entire second week of school bc of respiratory infection and we got PCR bc rapids are unreliable right now. It absolutely sucks and I’m sorry they notified you last minute. [/quote]

Random people on the internet have been saying this for a while (long before BA5 became the predominant strain), but what the experts actually say is that you need to test multiple times with a rapid test over a few days. It takes a while to test positive on a PCR or a rapid test.

The appropriate reaction to illness is to remind parents to keep their children home when they are sick, as OP did. If there is a COVID case, they need to follow local guidelines, not make up their own. It seems obvious to me that they are short-staffed, which sucks.  [/quote]

If that short-staffing is because they had multiple staff members test positive for covid this weekend, it’s only reasonable to want kids who have been sick to get a PCR test to confirm they’re not bringing covid into the daycare. [/quote]

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