The CDC announced Friday that students who are exposed to the coronavirus can still attend school as long as they continue to test negative for the virus in the following days.
Dec. 18, 2021 --
In recent months, the CDC has collaborated with several school districts across the U.S. to evaluate test-to-stay programs. On Friday, the CDC published two studies in itsthat demonstrated the effectiveness of these programs in limiting the spread of the virus while also keeping students in class. Before test-to-stay was implemented, the average daily number of cases was 10 cases per 100,000 students in districts that later adopted the protocol and 20 cases per 100,000 students in districts that didn’t. After the program was implemented, average daily case rates declined in all school districts but remained lower in test-to-stay districts, with 6 cases per 100,000 students as compared with 11 cases per 100,000 students in districts that didn’t do the protocol.
The Lake County Health Department examined the number of close contacts that later tested positive and whether the virus further spread from the close contacts to other people. They found that 16 of the close contacts tested positive and that these were all students. No one appeared to transmit the virus to others at school, but nine cases were identified among household contacts.
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