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> one week and a half of school when you're 8 I think you're vastly underestimating how often kids exhibit symptoms potentially consistent with Covid during a
by callahad 4y ago
> one week and a half of school when you're 8
I think you're vastly underestimating how often kids exhibit symptoms potentially consistent with Covid during a school year.
- neoromantique 4y agoHow often do they exhibit symptoms AND trigger a PCR test?
- callahad 4y agoOh sure. I think we're interpreting the parent comments differently (i.e., I'm understanding sokoloff's and aflag's comments to be about more general precautionary isolation based on symptomatic illness, not necessarily PCR-confirmed infection like logifail's kid.)
- aflag 4y agoI was not really suggesting kids should be isolated whenever they have any sort of possible symptoms. But if you're diagnosed with some contagious illness, it's probably not a bad idea to try to curb the spread.
- logifail 4y ago> if you're diagnosed with some contagious illness, it's probably not a bad idea to try to curb the spread This was always true, and we never sent an obviously poorly child to daycare/preschool/school. I've lost count of the number of times I've picked up one of our kids from daycare/preschool/school before Covid after a phone call along the lines of "your child has spiked a fever/vomited/has had an accident and should probably see a doctor". Wasn't this typically based on common sense by the parties involved, though?
- aflag 4y agoSure. If your kid is testing positive for a contagious diseases which killed over 6 million people worldwide and left many with long lasting effects, wouldn't common sense dictate that they should stay at home?
- sokoloff 4y agoPCR testing, as applied in the current COVID testing protocols, is not an appropriate tool to approximate contagiousness. It reliably tells of prior exposure, that's all.
- sokoloff 4y agoPeople who recovered from C19 many weeks ago and are no longer contagious can still test positive on a PCR test. Catch C19, recover, get the sniffles in the next 2 months, get PCR tested, require a parent to take off work and the kid to sit out 10 days [possibly more than once] is not a reasonable policy IMO.
- neoromantique 4y agoTesting positive months after does happen, but is extremely rare, and yes, missing few days of school/work is not that big of a deal considering risks involved.
- landemva 4y agoPCR test amplifies whatever was swabbed, usually from the nose (an air filter). A positive result does not prove there is an infection.
- logifail 4y agoOur state-run testing facility always did PCR tests using a throat swab, and since I was the one who drew the short straw and took each of our kids there for mandatory tests, I've observed this being done a couple of dozen times over the last three years.
- logifail 4y ago> People who recovered from C19 many weeks ago and are no longer contagious can still test positive on a PCR test Which is why the EU issued the "recovery certificate" and put it on the same basis as a negative test, and why our schools didn't test recovered children (to clarify: were mandated not to test recovered children) after they returned to school after having Covid.