Similar to the end quarantine after 5 days even if you still test positive. It is a mix of caution and reality. If there is covid in your home, you certainly are at risk for spreading it but life does need to happen. I would send my kids to school masked but not have them attend optional activities like bday parties etc until the household is testing negative.

Do the Qualtrics which asks specifically for household exposure. Then the school will direct you.

The policy is that they can, as long as they are masked and fully vaccinated. In reality, spread in households is very common so out of courtesy to others do your best to isolate the infected, mask everyone in the house unless eating or sleeping, open windows to increase air circulation. And make sure your kid has a KN95, not just a cloth mask, and knows to tell you if they feel off in any way.

It’s a calculated risk to allow someone who has COVID in their household to go to work or school right now. While the official isolation period is five days, someone who gets the flu-like version of this variant is going to miss a lot more than that so please be considerate in trying to minimize spread

We just went through this. So long as kid was asymptomatic and negative, he went to school (6yo). He came down with some other bug while his dad isolated (complete with fever etc), continued to test negative for Covid, but stayed home because he had some other bug…

Anonymous wrote:Ok, thanks. “Experts” seem to be quoted as saying you should send your kids, recognizing the impact of learning loss and isolation balanced with the overall risks. Still seems Hard to compute now that we’re in this situation…

On one hand APS totally says send them

On the other, I am an FCPS teacher with kids in APS and I just tested positive, so I think that means I am not going to be in school for 5 days…

Pretty sure I got it from one of the kids who had a sibling who was positive but went to school.

As long as the experts counted in kids receiving learning loss because there aren’t any subs this is fine logic. Who knows, maybe they did?

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Anonymous wrote:In APS, the answer is they go to school. We did rapid tests each morning at home, but even that wasn’t required if the kid is vaccinated.

To follow up on what I wrote above… it did feel kind of wrong, & we still all did end up with COVID. So in the end, one kid went to school for a few days, started feeling sick, then tested positive one afternoon. At least he was masked, & we were following the policy, but I still felt a little guilty.

Same thing happened in our household recently. It was like a domino effect of positive tests. We also opened windows and tried to isolate patient zero but this new variant is highly contagious, and clearly transmissible despite vaccination. Hope you all have a swift recovery!

We sent both kids, testing each morning with rapid tests. One tested negative on PCR on day 2 (administered by school) and positive on rapid on day 5. The other tested negative on PCR tests on day 3 and 10 (both administered at school) and countless rapid tests. I'm glad we didn't keep her home.

We were in the same boat last Monday and sent our kid as normal. So far neither of us has tested positive. We did rapids most mornings.

Anonymous wrote:In APS, the answer is they go to school. We did rapid tests each morning at home, but even that wasn’t required if the kid is vaccinated.

To follow up on what I wrote above… it did feel kind of wrong, & we still all did end up with COVID. So in the end, one kid went to school for a few days, started feeling sick, then tested positive one afternoon. At least he was masked, & we were following the policy, but I still felt a little guilty.

Anonymous wrote:They can go to school with masks as they’re both vaccinated. Continue to test. PCR on day 5.

And showing no symptoms.

Ok, thanks. “Experts” seem to be quoted as saying you should send your kids, recognizing the impact of learning loss and isolation balanced with the overall risks. Still seems Hard to compute now that we’re in this situation…

Yes. I would send them, as they are already wearing good masks, have tested negative, and have been away from your DH. AS others have said, get a PCR around day 5.

In APS, the answer is they go to school. We did rapid tests each morning at home, but even that wasn’t required if the kid is vaccinated.

They can go to school with masks as they’re both vaccinated. Continue to test. PCR on day 5.

My husband tested positive for COVID this morning. So far the rest of us are negative. He is isolating away from us and we have windows open in the house. I'm trying to figure out if my vaccinated kids should go to school tomorrow, assuming rapid tests remain negative? They are both vaccinated. My 5 year old just completed his vaccination series a couple weeks ago. My 8 year old has 2 doses but we have not gotten a booster yet given it was only recently approved. They both have been wearing kn95's at school anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem for them. I know that the guidance says they can both come to school, but what have people been doing in practice? It feels weird to send them knowing dad is positive. Also seems weird to keep them home...