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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This system is going to disincentive even taking a Covid test. A positive test is like a kiss of death for two-three weeks for you and all the families in the daycare. Flame away, but if my kid has a slight cold or a fever from now on, I will keep him/her at home for a couple of days, but won't test.[/quote]

We cant do that. If our kid is sick, which is the only reason I would keep them home, we have to test to return. [/quote]

That's for your kid. Parents getting sick is a different issue. I know a parent who had a mild case of COVID (sick for two days), then the spouse got it a few days later, but the kids never got it. The youngest had to quarantine for 25 days from daycare!

day 1 = 1st parent symptoms
day 5 = 2nd parent symptoms
day 15 = 2nd parent isolation
day 25 = when child could return to daycare based on starting a quarantine on day 15

So yes, if one has a runny nose, it does make one hesitant about testing, and I think about saying when symptoms started, or what consistutes an exposure to a parent. What if I stay in a room all day and only come out after day 5 with a mask?[/quote]

This. You can try to virtue signal all you want but 25 days without child care would have serious consequences for many families and at this stage of the pandemic you can't deny a lot of these will not test.[/quote]

Yeah, that is pretty outrageous / impossible.  My daycare doesn't require this any more.  Not sure if they require the parent to mask/isolate from the child, but I know a parent just had COVID and their kid was back within 5 days (maybe less).

I actually think we'll be in a different situation by fall.  Eitehr the &lt;5 vaccine will be approved or not, but childcare will have to move on and update policies.  I am very frustrated the CDC isn't leading this, but local helath agencies could also take some leadership here.  [/quote]

I sure hope so.  I think the CDC has been putting this off so that they have a carrot to get parents to vaccinate their kids.  But if EUA for &lt;5 doesn’t happen over the summer then they really really need to move on from the current guidance.  It’s been very frustrating for a while but bordering on inexcusable.[/quote]

So they’re playing games with people. Cool cool. Totally normal. Nothing to see here. [/quote]

Yep, I would be absolutely livid if this were the reasoning. And I'm someone who would be first in line to vaccinate my toddler and puts a lot of trust in health/science authorities generally.[/quote]

I don’t know what other reason there could possibly be, other than sheer incompetence.  Which isn’t out of the realm of possibility, I did receive a response from someone at CDC a few weeks ago claiming they DID update the daycare/ECE guidance and then provided a link to the page that hadn’t been updated since January.[/quote]

It is sheer incompetance, IMO.  The focus is elsewhere.  Vaccinations in the under 5 crowd aren't a priority for anyone, except for (some) parents of &lt;5s[/quote]

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