My kids are in 7th and 3rd grade. Good kids, good students. Here in FL school went back in person in the fall and we gave them both the option, virtual or in person. The both choose in person without hesitation.

On Sunday 3/7, I had some stomach cramps. But I had been at the ballfields all day for my daughters softball team and had eaten a concession stand hamburger. The cramps came and went throughout the week, nothing really too bad, but since that is out of the ordinary for me and since we were leaving on vacation, I went to my primary care Doc on Friday 3/12.

I covered the cramping issue with her, she checked me out, agreed that I probably ate something that upset my tummy, prescribed Pepcid and a pro-biotic and sent me on my way. I took those on Friday evening and woke up Saturday with a normal feeling tummy.

However, as I was going to sleep on Friday night, I got the chills. No teeth chattering, no shivering, but way colder than I should be in FL when the daytime temp was in the 70's. I took my temp and it was a completely normal 98.0. When I woke up Saturday morning though, I had this nagging thought. I normally have an iron stomach, it just doesn't get upset. And now the chills. Maybe I should get checked for COVID before we leave for vacation? And sure enough, I returned a positive result.

So on Saturday afternoon, my wife and kids got tested, all returning negative results. And since they were all negative, I sent them off on vacation on Sunday morning, with plans for me to join them on Tuesday, which will be day 10, and which is when the Doctor said I was free to end quarantine.

Today my wife gets a call from the kid's school principle. My wife is PTA board member and knows the principle well, we are all on friendly terms. The principle lets my wife know that the CDC has reported the kids exposure to the school, and they are not allowed to return to the classroom until Monday, April 5th.

April 5th? How the hell did they determine that date? That is 4 weeks and 1 day from first symptom. And anyway, the kids returned a negative result.

Well, the CDC has guaranteed that I will be very hesitant to play by the rules next time.

Reported your kid's exposure to what to the school? Not allowed to return to school because of what?

Is it possible that there was a mistake made in their calculation? I'm in Florida as well. I know my kids' school will come up with a return date, but I have yet to hear of one anywhere near that long.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Reported your kid's exposure to what to the school? Not allowed to return to school because of what?

Yeah, the CDC reported to the school that the kids were exposed to someone with a positive COVID result. That is of course what my wife told CentraCare when she and they went to get tested.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Is it possible that there was a mistake made in their calculation? I'm in Florida as well. I know my kids' school will come up with a return date, but I have yet to hear of one anywhere near that long.

Not sure. The principle was super nice about it. She loves my kids, she wants them at school. That date was dictated to her, but she was not sure how that date was arrived at. Both she and my wife will be looking into it this week.

Well, now you know better.

And I never heard of a 4 week quarantine simply from exposure. Ridiculous.

I hope you get better soon but that quarantine for your kids is BS. Last I checked CDC guidelines were 10 days w/o symptoms and a negative COVID test or 14 days w/o symptoms. Just quarantine yourself from your kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronaviru...sick/quarantine.html

What Jimbo Jones said. 4 weeks is absurd and totally against CDC guidelines.

I went through this with my oldest child recently. His "exposure" was a bit different (as in non-existent), but that didn't stop the local "nurse" in charge of the county health department from issuing a "quarantine".

I posed the question here, spoke with a few local attorneys, and then raised holy hell.

The health department would call the school, and the school would issue a "quarantine order" on the health department's letterhead. Here's what I got, in writing, from the health department:

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The letter from school is not a quarantine “order” it is a CDC recommendation based on the information provided by the positive case when telling the health department their contact list.

The Health Department makes decisions on quarantine recommendations based on the information provided to the health department from the positive person’s interview. The Health Department uses CDC guidelines to recommend quarantine for those names that are given based on the description of the event from the interview with the positive case and potential for exposure and subsequent spread. Many things are taken into consideration beyond the less than 6 feet and 15 cumulative minutes.

It is up to you; if you wish to abide by CDC guidelines, State DHSS & DESE, LPHA recommendations -which are in place to slow the spread and protect those at risk.

We all had Covid back in Oct. For those reasons, nobody went through the testing drill. We recovered then went back to work & school, as during any other illness.

I’ve seen myself, people getting tripped up due to testing or reported association. Plus, I don’t need a probe up my nose.

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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
Last I checked CDC guidelines were 10 days w/o symptoms and a negative COVID test or 14 days w/o symptoms.

The Doc I saw said I am free at 10 days from onset of symptoms. And they no longer recommend a follow up test because even though the virus has cleared your system you can test positive for 6 weeks afterwards. I am guessing that may not be CDC official, but that was the info she gave me.

A lady from the FL Dept of Health just called me to follow up. She started asking questions about who I have been around, where I have been, etc. I politely, and in not these exact terms, told her to pound sand.