The CDC has updated their K-12 recommendations as follows if an outbreak is similar to earlier this year:
- Stay home when sick (at least 24 hours without a fever off of fever-reducing medications)
- Separate ill students and staff
- Hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette
- Routine cleaning (shouldn't they be doing this already?)
- Early treatment of high-risk students and staff
- Consideration of selective school dismissal
For an outbreak of increased severity, the following:
- Active screening
- High-risk students and staff members stay home
- Students with ill household members stay home
- Increase distance between people at school
- Extend the period for ill persons to stay home (up to 7 days)
- School dismissals
Click here for the detailed updated recommendations
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