Anonymous wrote:If you test + for COVID on a PCR test, you don't get tested for 90 days.

This. CDC guidelines is you don’t retest for 90 days because you can still test positive but are presumed not infectious after 10 days. If you do get a symptomatic illness that mimics covid during those 90 days, you are supposed to consult a Dr for a diagnosis.

Some of the school nurses are working over break. (Kids at two private schools and one responded to me within hours, never heard from the other). Contact school as soon as possible. That will start clock ticking at some schools. School may notify health department, which makes clock even more official. Our child not expected to participate in weekly tests. We did at home test. School said no need for pcr and we chose not to do so. Why spend time in confined space with kid and expose others.

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Anonymous wrote:In same boat as ncs/sta poster above, hoping school lets them return to school even if they continue to test positive, as long as they’ve isolated for 10 days and have no symptoms. Did you let the school nurse know about the positives?

Send the nurse the positive test results so she has the date they tested positive. I can’t imagine it will be a problem if they are ten days past and symptom free. Cdc does not recommend testing for 90 days after having covid due to false positives and the fact that it is highly unlikely you’d be reinfected within those 90 days.

Actually I did let the private school know but they’re still very insistent on a PCR test. I just sent over the CDC advice. I’m hopeful Dc updates its guidance on kids already having had Covid and future testing.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve got a DC private school says my kid who had Covid has to do a PCR test. Aren’t there lots of false positives?

No. Very very few positive tests on PCRs. Kids are not testing positive for long, so people who do a PCR, get a positive and doubt it and do another one in a day or 2 and get a negative try to claim the positive was false. Incorrect - they just got the initial test within the window of being positive.

Our private allows you back 10 days after a positive if assymptomatic. I can’t remember the number of days post symptoms if symptomatic, but this advice aligned with the health dept. They are also exempt from school wide testing for a while, but it can’t remember how many days?

What about if positive results are at home antigen tests, not lab pcr.

Anonymous wrote:In same boat as ncs/sta poster above, hoping school lets them return to school even if they continue to test positive, as long as they’ve isolated for 10 days and have no symptoms. Did you let the school nurse know about the positives?

Send the nurse the positive test results so she has the date they tested positive. I can’t imagine it will be a problem if they are ten days past and symptom free. Cdc does not recommend testing for 90 days after having covid due to false positives and the fact that it is highly unlikely you’d be reinfected within those 90 days.

In same boat as ncs/sta poster above, hoping school lets them return to school even if they continue to test positive, as long as they’ve isolated for 10 days and have no symptoms. Did you let the school nurse know about the positives?

Anonymous wrote:The health department protocol all along has been 10 days as long as you’ve been fever free for 24 hrs without medication and other symptoms are improving. So unless kids have fever or are still very symptomatic, they should be allowed back to school.

Ok, sounds good. This is going to get complex for schools that test weekly like ours (STA and NCS). My kids are positive and show no signs of turning negative despite having no symptoms for more than a week. We'll see what happens over the next week+ until school starts.

The health department protocol all along has been 10 days as long as you’ve been fever free for 24 hrs without medication and other symptoms are improving. So unless kids have fever or are still very symptomatic, they should be allowed back to school.

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Anonymous wrote:See if you can get a doctor’s note. You could be testing positive for a while.

+1 Contact your pediatrician for a clearance letter.

Maybe it was a bad nurse but the pediatrician I go to had never heard of a medical clearance letter after Covid. It’s a big practice too, the Pediatric Associates of Alexandria.