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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you in MoCo, what is happening with quarantine rules with no masks? Our daycare said they have to keep masks because MoCo DHHS ties quarantine policies to the use of masks for children under 5--when there is an exposure and children are masked, the quarantine is 5 days compared to 10 without masks. They said they are keeping masks until this changes because no wants longer quarantines.[/quote]

I've never heard of treating an unmasked exposure differently from a masked exposure.

When our daycare announced the mask optional policy they did not announce a change to quarantine guidelines (I actually don't know what our quarantine guidelines are - back in January it was 10 days).[/quote]

I have discovered that what DHHS puts in writing and what is says to parents and providers are two different things.[/quote]

It is implied at the bottom:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/Resources/Files/quarantine/I-Q-guidance.pdf

As a footnote to the 5 day quarantine for unvaccinated, it says that because children under 2 cannot wear masks, they must quarantine for 10 days. So the implication is that if unvaccinated children 2-4 don't wear masks, they must also quarantine for 10 days.[/quote]

Oh but that's about wearing a mask after the 5 days. Not a mask during the exposure.[/quote]

Not necessarily. The interpretation is ambiguous:

[b]Are children under 2 years of age recommended to return earlier than 10 days to a child care setting from isolation or quarantine?
Because children under 2 are not recommended to wear a mask, the CDC currently advises that the safest option is to continue to quarantine or 
isolation guidance, as applicable, for a full 10 days.
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It could just as well mean that because the children were not wearing a mask at the time of exposure, it is safer for them to quarantine longer because there is a greater chance they are infected.[/b]
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That is quite a leap and is a little nonsensical. There's no evidence that if you were masked but infected that you'll stop being infectious sooner. If you read the rest of the guidance, ending quarantine after 5 days is predicated on wearing a well-fitting mask around others. That is what this refers to. Though I wouldn't put it past DHHS to just make stuff up, they really don't care what the impact is as long as they are being covid safe lol.[/quote]

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