Require Covid Test

[Annalee]

Food for thought, I now have three children with covid....If I had not asked for the testing, I would have never known and thought it was a simple stomach bug?

[Momboss]

I go back and forth on whether i should treat this super seriously or whether i think covid is just a cold. My state has strict policy on how to treat covid and could lose my license if i let a child attend with covid without quarentining the required amount of time

[GirlMomma]

*I too am following my illness policy. Kids will go home with diarrhea, green runny noses and persistent coughs.

I still didn’t have to exclude anyone 🙏🏽

[GirlMomma]

This is going to be an unpopular opinion… but I am treating COVID like any other illness. Children can return 48 hours without medication and of course being symptom free. I haven’t had any issues so far.

For example, I had one family I know diagnosed with COVID. DCD got it the week I was closed for break. DCM got it the week I opened after break. Child came the Monday I opened after break. DCK didn’t have any symptoms or signs of it. We made it two weeks later and no other family has been out and none of my kids are showing symptoms of it. My immediate family is healthy. I disinfect and sanitize like I usually do.

[Cat Herder]

I refuse to put a kid through it. There is no treatment, so a test is an invasive procedure that could potentially expose them to injury or secondary infection. Why bother?

The silliness with this flu is legendary.

I just follow my usual illness policy and exclude for symptom's.

[Momboss]

With covid presenting as pretty much anything, especially in kids, are you requiring a covid test to return to daycare if the child is sick with anything?
I almost feel like making this a requirement and im okay with the results of a home test. DCM texted last night that DCB has a fever but that she had taken a test earlier this week and her test was negative, so she doesnt think he has covid. Even though that doesnt make any sense….
the child goes to preschool twice a week at another facility so theres other places and situations where he can be exposed. For the safety of everyone i almost think testing even for JUST a fever or JUST vomitting would be best and gets rid of any doubt.