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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could encourage parents at your school to utilize DC's "Test yourself" program and test their kid at home every week. That's what we intend to do. You can even get the test kits ahead of time and then you just drop them off in one of the drop boxes when you do it. It's free and really easy.

Is it as good as 100% testing of the entire population? No. But if you can get enough families willing to do it (and provide them with information on how to do it and how easy it is), then you could seriously impact the school's ability to track Covid. We are doing it for our peace of mind, but I also view it as a public service to the school community, so we know we aren't sending an asymptomatic kid to school and so we can report any positive test sooner than we might if we waited for symptoms or for the school to test (assuming we're in the 10% which I still don't know if we will be).[/quote]

How do you do this? I know I can get at home covid tests at libraries/community centers, but I thought those had to be returned the same day you get the test kit. Is that what you plan to do? (I would love to test my child at home every week, just trying to figure out the logistics)[/quote]

You can pick them up whenever and just keep them at home. But then you have to register the test online, do the test, and drop it off at the library by 8 pm on the same day.[/quote]

DC also just announced a bunch of additional pickup sites for these tests (rec centers, in addition to libraries).

These 11 new sites are in addition to the 16 DC Public Library sites that are listed on testyourself.dc.gov.

Ward 3

Palisades Recreation Center (5200 Sherier Pl NW) – opens on Monday, August 30

Ward 4

Lamond Recreation Center (20 Tuckerman St NE) – opens on Monday, August 30

Ward 5

Trinidad Recreation Center (1310 Childress St NE) – opens on Monday, August 30
    Edgewood Recreation Center (301 Franklin Street, NE) – opens on Monday, August 30
    Turkey Thicket Recreation Center (1100 Michigan Ave NE) – opens on Monday, August 30

Ward 6

Arthur Capper Community Center (1000 5th St SE) – opens on Monday, August 30
    Rosedale Recreation Center (1701 Gales St NE) – opens on Monday, August 30
    Southwest Library (900 Wesley Pl SW) – opens on Wednesday, September 1 
    DC Health (899 N Capitol St NE) – opens on Wednesday, September 1

Ward 8

Barry Farm Recreation Center (1230 Sumner Rd SE) – opens on Monday, August 30
    Fort Stanton Recreation Center (1812 Erie Street, SE) – opens on Wednesday, September 1

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