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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in an city where daycares are only open for some essential service workers, and where the vast majority of our COVID cases are in long term care homes and healthcare settings. Two of the five centres open had to close today temporarily because of COVID exposure. I'm sure they were exposed through healthcare worker parents, but I just don't see how daycares will manage if hoards of kids start coming back. Keeping mine home for foreseeable future.[/quote]

I expect some centers may require a COVID test when a kid is sent home with a fever. I can guarantee they’re not going to use the standard “24 hours” after the fever breaks policy anymore for a kid with a fever, considering COVID is contagious for 2 weeks after symptoms stop. It’s going to be a logistical nightmare.[/quote]

I expect kids will need to stay home for colds too due to the overlap in symptoms.[/quote]

Agreed. It's going to be hugely disruptive. Every time a case pops up in kid or teacher, they will probably shut the whole place down for 2 weeks. And again and again when new cases pop up. The larger the center, the more often this will happen. Mine goes to a small home daycare right now but I was planning on moving him to preschool in the fall because he will be 3. But the preschool is so much bigger, and I have a feeling they are going to have to close much more often than the home daycare will. I don't know what to do. The daycare is really not going to be developmentally appropriate for much longer, but I don't know how I'm going to keep up a full time work schedule with the inevitable disruptions. Never mind that my older kid goes to public school which will probably be dealing with the same repeated closures, if they open. This is going to drive a lot of parents (mostly women) out of the workforce because it's not sustainable.  [/quote]

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