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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plan to get sick.[/quote]

MCPS no longer has Covid leave for staff. The teacher who catches Covid in the first month of school will use 1/2 of their yearly allotted sick leave. [/quote]

Covid leave? Is there influenza leave? Or rhinovirus leave? Strep leave?

Why should there be different leave categories per infection?[/quote]

Because for all of those other viruses that you listed, a teacher only needs to be fever free for 24 hours to return to work. For COVID, they have to stay out much longer.[/quote]

Practically speaking, it's not much different. If you're sick enough to seek a diagnosis and medical care for the flu, then you're likely to be out for the same 3-5 days as if you're sick enough to seek treatment for covid.  Otherwise you're always just looking at the 24 hour fever policy.[/quote]

And the 24 hour fever free policy has always existed as a matter of practicality, not because other illnesses are magically no longer infectious at that point as opposed to Covid. Pretty much all upper respiratory infections follow a bell curve of starting to shed to a spreadable level a day or two before symptoms appear, shedding the most when you feel the worst, then gradually shedding less and less as symptoms improve over a 5‐10 day window. That's just how it works. That's why the standard is stay home if you actually feel lousy enough to need to rest. A standard of stay home if you might be shedding virus even if you feel mostly ok is unworkable for any illness, Covid or not.[/quote]

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