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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have been in daycare for a month. They have not been sick. Yes, they are more likely to come home with a runny nose because having a runny nose is not something that keeps you from participating in life. Kids with runny noses get sent to daycare. Kids with COVID do not. [/quote]

Runny nose is sometimes a symptom, so people should probably keep their kids home when they have one. [/quote]

For how long? [/quote]

Until it's better or you get a negative covid test result back.[/quote]

Is this really required at your daycare for a runny nose? [/quote]

No (although it is for a cough, which honestly happens as often as runny noses for my kids)... but even when it's not technically required, it's still important to us to do the right thing, rather than assume "oh it's probably nothing" and run the risk of knowing that we got others sick/hospitalized/killed rather than go through the slight hassle of being tested just to make sure.  Covid tests are free and results are coming back in less than 2 days lately... the inconvenience of taking a couple sick days is worth knowing that we're being responsible, cautious citizens trying to keep this pandemic under control as much as possible.

(We actually did this a couple weeks ago, not for runny nose but a similar second-tier symptom where we knew it was almost certainly going to be negative but got the child tested and kept them home until results were back just in case.)[/quote]

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