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Please keep your child HOME if they are experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms OR if they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 OR someone in the household is awaiting COVID results.
LEARNERS MUST STAY HOME IF:
SOMEONE WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD IS EXPERIENCING COVID-19 SYMPTOMS
SOMEONE WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD IS AWAITING COVID-19 TEST RESULTS
EXPERIENCING COVID-19 SYMPTOMS THEMSELVES
Before leaving for school, please make sure of the following screening. If your child has any of the following symptoms, that indicates a possible illness that may decrease the student’s ability to learn and put them at risk for spreading illness to others.
☐ Temperature 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher when taken by mouth
☐ Sore throat
☐ New uncontrolled cough that causes difficulty breathing (for students with chronic allergic/asthmatic cough, a change in their cough from baseline)
☐ Diarrhea, vomiting, or abdominal pain
☐ New onset of severe headache, especially with a fever
In the past 14 days has your child:
☐ Had close contact (within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes) with a person with confirmed COVID-19: OR
☐ Had close contact (within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes) with person under quarantine for possible exposure to COVID-19; OR
☐ Had a travel history
If the answer is YES to any of the questions in Section One, but NO to all the questions in Section Two, www.mi.gov/coronavirustest or call 2-1-1 to find a location to have your child(ren) tested for COVID-19.
If the answer is YES to any of the symptom questions, but NO to any close contact/potential exposure questions, your student may return based on the guidance for their symptoms (see “Managing Communicable Diseases in Schools”):
Fever: at least 24 hours have passed with no fever, without the use of fever-reducing medications
Sore throat: improvement (if strep throat: do not return until at least 2 doses of antibiotic have been taken);
Cough/Shortness of breath: improvement
Diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain: no diarrhea or vomiting for 24 hours
Severe headache: improving