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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Similar situation here. My kid is missing his first day of preschool tomorrow because he came down with a low grade fever the other day. Technically I could have just waited until 48 hours after the fever was gone (which would be tomorrow), especially because the fever never even went over 99.5 and was gone quickly. But we decided to get the COVID test done to be safe, which means we are now waiting until the result comes back. I will be shocked if the test is positive. But at least this way we know we aren't potentially bringing COVID to a school right at the beginning of the year.

COVID can be so mild in kids that no one can really say that a runny nose, slight fever, belly pain, etc. is not COVID without getting a test. I am not someone who is freaking out about COVID. But when one of my kids shows any signs of illness I am taking it very seriously for the sake of the greater good. This year is going to be terribly inconvenient for working parents. We're going to be paying a lot of money only for our kids to be home on and off while waiting for test results. I am telling myself this is still better than last spring where we were home 100% of the time and paying a ton of money. [/quote]

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