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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The solution is to end the ridiculous 14 day quarantine for children under 5. There have been numerous instances in our daycare (masked 2-5 year olds) where a child went home with covid-symptoms and waited for a PCR test for 5-7 days while the rest of the class continued and the PCR came back positive and the class started quarantining on day 5-7. Do you know how many times someone got covid? Zero. I would be very surprised if there was any "science" that said 14 day resulted in fewer infections that 10 day or 5 day or test to stay. Two years into this our politicians continue to make fear based decisions about young children.[/quote]

Who has mandatory quarantines for kids under 5? They’re not required in Maryland or Montgomery County. Quarantines are only required for outbreaks.

Yes, many providers are refusing to meet their obligations under their enrollment agreements, but don’t blame that on the heath regulations.[/quote]

Our daycare has shut down entire classrooms repeatedly for single cases (mostly teachers, although I believe there have been 3 children with positive cases in the past 22 months). There's been no spread amongst the children or staff.  Classes were shut down for 14 days at first, but now that is down to 10 days.  We've been told that this is the instruction provided to daycare from the health department.  We are in Loudoun.
Something has to give with this.  We had an outbreak of RSV last summer (5 toddlers in one room), and no one shut down for that.[/quote]

Huh, that's interesting.  I'm in DC and my daycare also reports every case to DC DOH and gets their guidance on when to open but as of Jan 1, 2022, that seems to have changed from a quarantine period (I think it was usually 5-10 days but I was never in an affect class in 2020 or 2021 so I'm not sure) to a one day closure for a deep clean and then test-to-return for all the apparently healthy kids.  Weird that VA is being more paranoid that DC.  We also haven't had nearly as much daycare-based Covid spread as we have HFM or RSV.[/quote]

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