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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than opting out, the people concerned about false positives should be clarifying what happens once a positive is reported.  Is it immediately followed up with a PCR test? [/quote]

This is important, especially if there is a high false positive rate. Also knowing what the school will do if a school, or privately administered, follow-up PCR test is negative following a positive at school will be interesting. I'm absolutely not opting out of testing, but it would really suck for my kid or one of their classmates to cause others to quarantine on faulty results. Given these stats, why can't they just do the nasal swab rapids? My young child's summer program did the nasal swab tests and it was a non-issue.[/quote]

But it’s a limited quarantine, right? I thought they’d changed what it means to be a “close contact” so much that no one is going to be considered a. Lose contact, except for maybe during lunch, but then they’re not tracking who sits where.

I’m honestly more concerned about having to keep my kid home when she has a cold, even if we get a negative PCR test. Zero tolerance for lingering cough or runny nose is going to be rough for a lot of people. [/quote]

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