Through this I found out how they are treating potential Covid in kids--THEY AREN'T TESTING KIDS!!! I cannot believe this, that is ridiculous. Apparently their son was the first one in the family to get sick, they took him to the doctor who treated him, prescribed some things to help his symptoms, and sent him home without testing!
Yep! There are no standards for when to test kids and most testing sites won’t do it. We all got tested here (Ohio) including my 9 and 6 year old only because we “lucked” out that the governor was doing a pop up all ages testing the day we needed it. We were negative.
My pediatrician posts every day how they don’t know what to do about testing kids. There aren’t tests to test the exposed but asymptomatic kids. So they are only referring the sickest kids. And the rest are out there trapsing around.
That’s “fine” for now when many kids are still at home. When school opens this will be an issue.
I teach special needs preschool. We are exempt from mask orders for students and staff. I will be one of the only ones wearing a window mask, and until last night I thought I wouldn’t be allowed. And I still might not be.
So how do we know when to close or warn people? We can’t say there is Covid without a positive test. So a bunch of Covid kids will be going around spreading it because we can’t close for presumed cases, but we can’t get confirmed cases in the kids because they won’t test them!
What a freaking nightmare. I’m so worried.