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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid was at CHM for two weeks and just got back this weekend. The testing upon arrival was not cursory in our opinion. They did the rapid test - waited the 15 minutes and checked. When a few people started to come down with symptoms the end of week one/beginning of week 2 they tested them. Positive cases were isolated and picked up. They set up a cabin for positive cases who needed to stay overnight because parents couldn’t pick them up right away. [b]They did test people with symptoms. [/b]Did they test everyone with any symptoms? Probably not - I don’t know what parameters they were using, but I think they did a good job of communicating. Should they have tested everyone again - symptomatic or not? That is a hard call and one the camp needs to make. They did refer to a camp cold, but that does happen at sleepaway camps, and most of the campers who were tested were negative for COVID, so maybe there was a cold and COVID at the same time, maybe not, but I don’t think parents would want to pick up kids with symptoms who test negative. I was thankful ours made it through the two weeks! We have tested now twice upon return to be sure, but both were negative.[/quote]

I'd be curious to know how the camp determined whether someone had symptoms.  Did it run through a checklist of symptoms within the past X days?  Or did it simply allow the testing folks to use their judgment as to whether someone had symptoms?

I would think that if someone had symptoms, yet tested negative on a rapid test, they should not be allowed into camp.  CDC guidelines say that if someone is symptomatic, but is antigen negative, a confirmatory NAAT (PCR) "should take place as soon as possible after the antigen test, and not longer than 48 hours after the initial antigen testing. . . .  If performing serial antigen testing, wait 24-48 hours between tests."[/quote

Define "Symptom." Anything other than a fever is a ridiculous rule. No kids with allergies should be allowed at camp? Or kids who are snuffly because they have been teary at drop off? What about kids who get carsick? [/quote]

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