Anonymous wrote:Skip test to stay as we don't have the rapid tests. Let's just skip straight to the next step like Anne Arundel is doing, as well as many places in the US and Europe.

Get rid of the quarantines for close contacts. With less than 1% testing positive anyway, the cost to kids missing school FAR outweighs any benefit for a virus that will be here forever, for which vaccines are available and which kids are at less risk than the flu unvaccinated.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/ac-cn-covid-school-new-year-20211216-kxmpbvlf3veh3ocl7u7egk3u2m-story.html

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Anonymous wrote:You don't have to quarantine if you're vaccinated and no symptoms.

The only people complaining about quarantines about anti vaxers. Get your kids vaxed!

You do realize that the 5-11s are just now reaching the point of being "fully vaxed" - 2 weeks post vaccine #2. I know several kids who got quarantined for close contact just days prior to the 2 week mark. And of course none ended up testing positive. The reason that APS hasn't revealed how many close contact cases go on to test positive is because the number will be maddeningly small, showing that the policy is nonsensical. So you can count me as at least 1 vaxxer who complains about the quarantine rules.

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to quarantine if you're vaccinated and no symptoms.

The only people complaining about quarantines about anti vaxers. Get your kids vaxed!

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to quarantine if you're vaccinated and no symptoms.

The only people complaining about quarantines about anti vaxers. Get your kids vaxed!

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Anonymous wrote:The whole quarantining mess is going to go away on its own in January because there will be no more exclusions. At least that will something behind us.

Huh? Yes vaccinated are excluded for NOW. APS need to implement TTS. All signs are showing that everyone is up for grabs w omicron. We need TTS.

Hoping Youngkin gets rid of quarantining close contacts, like in Europe and Florida and other parts of the US. Incredibly disruptive to prevent 0.2% of kids from getting a case after adults have been vaccinated for a year.

I mean I certainly hope he does even though I didn’t vote for him. There are a lot of ridiculous COVID policies that need to go. I’m doubtful this is something he can change.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole quarantining mess is going to go away on its own in January because there will be no more exclusions. At least that will something behind us.

Huh? Yes vaccinated are excluded for NOW. APS need to implement TTS. All signs are showing that everyone is up for grabs w omicron. We need TTS.

Hoping Youngkin gets rid of quarantining close contacts, like in Europe and Florida and other parts of the US. Incredibly disruptive to prevent 0.2% of kids from getting a case after adults have been vaccinated for a year.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole quarantining mess is going to go away on its own in January because there will be no more exclusions. At least that will something behind us.

Huh? Yes vaccinated are excluded for NOW. APS need to implement TTS. All signs are showing that everyone is up for grabs w omicron. We need TTS.

Anonymous wrote:The whole quarantining mess is going to go away on its own in January because there will be no more exclusions. At least that will something behind us.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I understand the question. Everyone who gets Covid gets it from being in close contact with a Covid positive person. That's how you get Covid.

OP is actually asking what percentage of kids who are forced into quarantine end up being positive. If a large percentage of the kids excluded from class end up as positives the process is necessary. If 99% of those quarantined don’t end up positive they are missing class for no reason.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I understand the question. Everyone who gets Covid gets it from being in close contact with a Covid positive person. That's how you get Covid.

Anonymous wrote:How are people not understanding the OP. It’s a simple question. Of all the close contacts identified in APS, how many go on to test positive for COVID? If a positive case is identified in a classroom and 20 kids identified as close contacts as a result. Those numbers show up on the dashboard. If a close contact then goes on to test positive it will show up as a positive case on the dashboard. BUT there is no data or tracking to show AS A PERCENTAGE how many close contacts go on to test positive.

For example, LA is implementing TTS based on the low transmission: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-announces-modified-quarantine-option-for-unvaccinated-students/


As of last week, among the almost 30,000 people that ended up quarantined, 63 tested positive.

“This amounts to what we call a secondary attack rate of 0.2%,” Ferrer said, calling the figure “extraordinarily low.”