Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC's recommendation is to shut down the classroom the child was in for two weeks plus send home anyone who has had contact with that child. If they aren't keeping the children in self-contained classrooms, they will need to close the entire center. (I work in Admin at a place with a childcare center)

I should add that I'm in Virginia and this is not only the CDC's recommendation; it is required by the Virginia Department of Health.

Does anyone know where this regulation can be found? Does this mean siblings need to stay out of daycare for the full quarantine period?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preschools/daycares/whatever you want to call them have been open this entire time. I’m not aware of one outbreak sourced to any of those places.

You all need to calm down a little.

check out Texass - there are SO MANY cases in childcare centers in TX right now!

Mostly in staff, not children. And they're fairly spread out- 615 cases across 453 operations- suggesting that the transmissions are usually occurring outside the centers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Preschools/daycares/whatever you want to call them have been open this entire time. I’m not aware of one outbreak sourced to any of those places.

You all need to calm down a little.

I know of one in CO

One outbreak in a center, or one transmission in a center?

Because yes, I've seen some reports of transmissions involving a couple/few staff members and/or children. But nothing that I would describe as an "outbreak."

Anonymous wrote:Preschools/daycares/whatever you want to call them have been open this entire time. I’m not aware of one outbreak sourced to any of those places.

You all need to calm down a little.

check out Texass - there are SO MANY cases in childcare centers in TX right now!

Anonymous wrote:Preschools/daycares/whatever you want to call them have been open this entire time. I’m not aware of one outbreak sourced to any of those places.

You all need to calm down a little.

I know of one in CO

Preschools/daycares/whatever you want to call them have been open this entire time. I’m not aware of one outbreak sourced to any of those places.

You all need to calm down a little.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends on state law. I’m in Wisconsin and our state law is that center shuts down for 3 days for deep sanitation/cleaning and sick child must be isolated for 14 days before they can return.

But the child exposed the whole class and the teacher. For them, the cat is out of the bag. Cleaning the bag after the fact is necessary, but not sufficient.

I think we will need to accept a certain level of exposure moving forward, or none of this “reopening” will ever work.

Yep. Wasn't the "flatten the curve" mantra originally just to slow things down enough to stay under hospital capacity?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends on state law. I’m in Wisconsin and our state law is that center shuts down for 3 days for deep sanitation/cleaning and sick child must be isolated for 14 days before they can return.

But the child exposed the whole class and the teacher. For them, the cat is out of the bag. Cleaning the bag after the fact is necessary, but not sufficient.

I think we will need to accept a certain level of exposure moving forward, or none of this “reopening” will ever work.

Anonymous wrote:I think it depends on state law. I’m in Wisconsin and our state law is that center shuts down for 3 days for deep sanitation/cleaning and sick child must be isolated for 14 days before they can return.

But the child exposed the whole class and the teacher. For them, the cat is out of the bag. Cleaning the bag after the fact is necessary, but not sufficient.

I mean, this is all kind of absurd. The federal agency I work for has had 30 or 40ish cases domestically and a death and they definitely aren’t shutting everything down for 14 days every time.

The policy is to shut down the classroom for 48 hours (just that class, not the entire center) and then ask the county if they should make the kids stay home beyond 48 hours.

Anonymous wrote:As long as my employer allows me to work from home, my child will stay home. This whole experience has taught us that this is more feasible than we have been led to believe, and I hope employers will be more flexible about it in general in the future.

How old is your child? And I assume only one kid?

There's several weeks of discussion on a parents discussion forum at my employer that would disagree with you. People are either simply not doing work or they're they're doing crazy hours outside the normal workday (e.g., working 4-8am, and then 6-10pm).

Anonymous wrote:As long as my employer allows me to work from home, my child will stay home. This whole experience has taught us that this is more feasible than we have been led to believe, and I hope employers will be more flexible about it in general in the future.

If you have someone in daycare at home, are you really getting anywhere near a full work day in? Many employers are being understanding now because circumstances are hard, but let’s not pretend they will allow this level of work to be the new normal forever.

As long as my employer allows me to work from home, my child will stay home. This whole experience has taught us that this is more feasible than we have been led to believe, and I hope employers will be more flexible about it in general in the future.

Anonymous wrote:Not true for DC. I'm a center director. If the groups have truly been isolated, they will only shut down classrooms, not the whole center.

This seems like performance theater. There is no way the classes can be truly separate. There will be overlapping in hallways. There will be times an adult will need to go into another room. There will be shared contact of playground areas.

Maybe it is a reasonable balance of weighing risks v just shutting it all down, but let’s not pretend that there could ever be anywhere near complete isolation.