Anne Arundel County Health Department Recommends Shortening Quarantine Time For Fully Vaccinated Students And School Staff

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The Anne Arundel County Health Department connected Thursday said it is recommending afloat vaccinated students and schoolhouse unit who are asymptomatic volition not person to quarantine aft a adjacent contact, successful accordance with caller CDC guidelines.

Under the suggested protocols, afloat vaccinated adjacent contacts should get tested 3 to 5 days aft being exposed to COVID-19, the bureau said. But students and unit without symptoms tin proceed to be schoolhouse in-person and enactment successful different activities.

Close contacts volition person to decently deterioration a disguise successful the schoolroom and should proceed to bash truthful successful each indoor nationalist settings for 14 days aft being exposed to the virus, the wellness section said.

“Quarantining is indispensable to support students and unit from continued exposure; however, quarantine is disruptive to a child’s learning process,” Dr. Anne Arundel County Health Officer Nilesh Kalyanaraman said. “Fully vaccinated adjacent contacts who are asymptomatic bash not
have to quarantine – the champion enactment for extortion from illness and avoiding quarantine is vaccination.”

Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. George Arlotto and administrators yet person the last accidental connected adopting this caller guidance, and the schoolhouse strategy has had changeless conversations with the wellness section astir schoolroom protocols, said Bob Mosier, main communications serviceman for Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

As of Sept. 30, 1,725 students and 35 unit members successful Anne Arundel County are quarantining, and determination are 204 progressive pupil cases and 27 progressive unit cases, according to Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ COVID-19 information dashboard.

The schoolhouse strategy started with quarantine protocols requiring that students and unit enactment astatine location for 14 days aft a imaginable exposure, but the line was yet reduced to 10 days, said Mosier.

Under the caller recommendations from the wellness department, students and unit would lone person to quarantine for a week if they trial antagonistic 5 to 7 days aft a imaginable exposure.

Kalyanaraman urged parents of students property 12 oregon older to person their children get vaccinated if they privation to enactment successful the schoolroom and enactment successful sports.

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“Get astute and get the shot. That’s however we get up of COVID-19 and spell to the caput of the class,” helium said.