As we approach Winter months . . .
. . . it is important to monitor health symptoms of your learners. Relative to COVID, if your learner has a household or non school exposure to a positive case, your elementary student must be quarantined. Should this be the case, notify their school of the need to quarantine and then connect with the health room to discuss return dates. Please monitor your child for symptoms of COVID, reporting to attendance if your child is being tested or too ILL to engage in the temporary distance learning.
Symptoms of COVID-19 include: cough*, shortness of breath/trouble breathing*, fatigue, new loss of sense of taste or smell*, fever/chills, headache, sore throat, nausea/vomiting, runny nose/congestion, diarrhea, muscle or body aches).
If your child develops one symptom marked * or two or more other symptoms of COVID-19 (even if fully vaccinated):
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Immediately have your child begin to isolate. More specific information on the duration of isolation is provided in this overview of isolation.
- Keep all unvaccinated siblings home, and any symptomatic vaccinated siblings. Report to their healthroom.
- Contact their healthcare provider for evaluation.
- Seek PCR testing. Only negative PCR tests will be accepted for a student who is symptomatic. Please speak with your doctor about this or inquire at a testing site. If positive, further dates will be discussed with health staff. If PCR negative, return to school dates can be discussed with health staff.
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Contact your student’s health room. All Health Room contacts can be found HERE.
If your child has been exposed to a positive Covid case outside of KM Activities, please keep them home and immediately notify their healthroom.
PLEASE NOTE: In younger children, single symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea are being seen more often with the positive test results. While the CDC guideline is two or more symptoms, it is HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to have your child tested even with the one symptom. If your child has been out within the past week or two with what seems to be the 24 hour flu, testing is recommended, but not required. As a reminder, your child needs to stay home a FULL 24 hours after having a fever, vomiting, and or diarrhea regardless of a negative PCR COVID test.