Total number of BVR community reported negative results—this includes school-directed and volunteered tests

Please continue to share all instances and results of COVID testing with the School Nurse at tossowski@bcdschool.org.

As cases continue to rise in the Commonwealth and at Beaver, please continue adhering to the big 3 (mask-wearing, social distancing, hand washing) and limiting unnecessary social gatherings—both on and off-campus.

Throughout the year, we've been aligning our health and safety policies with those from the Department of Public Health and the Center for Disease Control. At times, out of an overabundance of caution, our policies have been stricter than those recommended—specifically our quarantine policy and our close contact definition.

Now that we are several months into the year, we can confirm our mitigation practices of mask-wearing, social distancing, and hand-washing are working, and we believe there is no known community transmission on campus. Administrators, board members, and medical and physical plant experts have also been in ongoing conversations throughout the first half of the year. Based on all this information, we feel comfortable redefining our quarantine policy and close contact definition to more closely align with the DPH and CDC.

These are not major changes to our current policies, but rather slight shifts that will continue to reduce risk while allowing us to have the maximum amount of days on campus.

Aligning with the latest MA state guidelines, if an individual is exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and they themselves have no symptoms, they have the following options before returning to campus (day of last exposure is Day 0):

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All test results will need to be shared with the School Nurse, Talia Ossowski via screenshot to provide date documentation, prior to being able to return to campus.

We will no longer include an entire class section by default as potential close contacts when we contact trace. A close contact is defined by the CDC as someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for asymptomatic patients, 2 days prior to test specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated.

When a BVR student or adult tests positive for COVID-19, only those identified as close contacts through contact tracing interviews will be asked to quarantine—not the entire class section. This change should minimize the need for (1) quarantining large groups of students and adults and (2) an entire division going remote.

Students and teachers will continue to be notified via email if there is a positive case in their class section. While it won’t be mandatory to quarantine, if a teacher or student feels more comfortable going remote, they will have the option and support to do so.

Students must have their flu shot as soon as possible, and proof of this documentation must be in Magnus. Please contact the Health Office if you have any questions.