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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a chance. MoCo is much more conservative than VA. And for good reason - risk of indoor transmission is high.[/quote]

MoCo and NoVa have been on identical schedules thus far. Expect Elrich’s announcement soon.[/quote]

On what? Daycares? The state is handling that, not the county.[/quote]

No the county is handling it. It’s not like va which has been handled by Northam. Hogan is allowing our county executor to make the shots but he is only consulting one person on it, it’s a joke. [/quote]

Look again. All the substantive child care regulations are coming from the Division of Early Childhood in the state's Department of Education. I know MoCo makes references to child care on the county's COVID site, but what might not be immediately obvious is that they're basically just going along with the EPCC program.[/quote]

At this point I don’t really understand the continuation of the EPCC program, given that the state isn’t paying anymore. It’s just making things confusing for providers and parents.  Our DC goes to a nonprofit center and they keep saying they’re waiting on more guidance and that it’s not practical to open until they can serve more than essential workers.  But it seems that the parents who would qualify is pretty broad at this point.  I suspect maybe they are not telling the whole story but wish they would at least ask the parents if they qualify under the current guidance.[/quote]

You are correct that this is very confusing for everybody. Unless there is a change, only EPCC daycare centers and homes can be open through phase 3. Any daycare that applies to be EPCC will be approved. Why making everybody jump through hoops? They said it’s for control of who is open and closed. But that doesn’t make sense because they already have control of daycares, but I digress.

Daycares fall under the Maryland Department of Education so changes come from the state level. Since we are in phase 2 that means that daycares in Maryland will accept the children of essential employees, nonessential employees returning under phase 1 and nonessential employees returning to work for phase 2. the exceptions are Montgomery county, PG and I believe Baltimore (although I’m not sure if Prince Georges or Baltimore have the same restrictions that Montgomery county has). In montgomery County we are still only under phase 1 which means technically we may only watch essential children and children to phase 1 employees. This was not made clear to daycares so that may be why you have phase 1 and phase 2 employees back in care in Montgomery county. Also, only one parent must fit into that category in order for a child to qualify to return.

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