re: Covid rules for exposed kids in school make no sense

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statement doesn’t carry the weight you think it does.


of course not for the folks here. And all the people that just make up rules. But IF people would even try to follow them we would be so much further ahead of this thing.

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According to CDC for severe cases any isolation over 10 days is based on what healthcare provider states as these cases only might need to isolate more than 10 days to up to 20 days after symptoms first appeared before they can be around others.

Maybe original poster updated or corrected somewhere, but OP mentioned discharge paperwork stated something like 3 days after discharge and 10 days after first positive test (assuming that’s longest combo of timeframes depending on where discharge date fits within the 10 days or outside of the 10 days), and then within this there is what meets definition of contact between kids and wife. That could be less than 20 actual days from start of wife’s symptoms or even more in some scenarios, but that’s is what should be start of kids’ quarantine not just automatically requiring it to start 20 days from start of wife’s symptoms or using the date wife’s employer agreed she can go back to work.