The Indiana State Department of Health says asymptomatic students should quarantine if identified as a close contact to someone who tests positive for COVID-19. However, one local school district has chosen to go its own way.
The Lewis Cass School Board voted Aug. 19 to allow asymptomatic students to remain in school. The decision came after a survey of staff, faculty, students and community members overwhelmingly supported the move.
Now, parents can keep their child home or send them to school if they do not display symptoms. Students are required to check in with the school nurse daily for 14 days — the recommended length of quarantine — to monitor symptoms.
According to ISDH recommendations issued in June, students should quarantine, even if asymptomatic, unless fully vaccinated and not experiencing symptoms.
Specifically, “asymptomatic individuals, unless fully vaccinated or recovered from a COVID-19 infection within the past 90 days, who are identified as a close contact of a COVID-19 case shall quarantine.”
The list can be found online at https://tinyurl.com/fktnbzbm.
However, Lewis Cass Superintendent Tim Garland said they interpret quarantining those students as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation.
This is different from the federal mandate that requires all students to wear a mask on school buses, the superintendent said, or reporting positive cases to the local and state health department and contact tracing, which schools are required to...
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