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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve been told by our daycare that there will still be 15 day quarantines if a household member gets Covid, regardless of whether the child is vaccinated or not.  If it’s just someone in their class that gets Covid, they won’t have to quarantine if vaccinated.

We won’t be testing anyone else at home, that’s for sure.[/quote]

How would the daycare know about household cases, assuming you don’t have multiple kids going to the same center?[/quote]

Siblings at daycare are common. But also if anyone were to get a positive PCR test, you are in the system.  The state of MD is still contact tracing, I don’t know about DC at this point.[/quote]

Maryland isn’t really contact tracing anymore, and no one has ever been obligated to report contacts anyway.  The daycare wouldn't find out unless you told them.[/quote]

Is this recent? Because earlier this spring I was contacted by someone from the health dept after someone in my child’s daycare class got Covid.

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Kind of.

There are two cases here: contact tracing positive PCR tests that are reported to the state, and contact tracing at schools and daycares. I don't know when contact tracing positive tests ended, but anecdotally it's been a long time since anyone I know has been contacted after simply having a positive test.

The contact tracing policy at schools and daycares changed on March 1, although MoCo's public health department is horribly disorganized so I suspect it took them a few more weeks to inform their staff and change their practices. When done, this was in response to covid reports from the school/provider to the health department. And it was hit-or-miss. Sometimes they'd report a case and they wouldn't get a call back from the health department for 2 weeks, making contact tracing moot. Sometimes they'd never get a call back.

Currently, they won't do tracing for individual cases, but they might do tracing if there's an outbreak at a center/school.
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