COVID-19 Updates

Quarantine Requirements

Regardless of vaccination status, you should isolate from others when you have COVID-19. You should also isolate if you are sick and suspect that you have COVID-19 but do not yet have test results. 

If you had no symptoms, Day 0 is the day you were tested, you may end isolation after Day 5. (Day 1 is the first full day following the day you were tested If you develop symptoms within 10 days of when you were tested, the clock restarts at day 0 on the day of symptom onset.)

If you had symptoms, Day 0 of isolation is the day of symptom onset, regardless of when you tested positive. Day 1 is the first full day after the day your symptoms started. You may end isolation after day 5 if you are fever-free for 24 hours (without the use of fever-reducing medication and your symptoms are improving. If you still have a fever or your other symptoms have not improved, continue to isolate until they improve.

After you have ended isolation, when you are feeling better (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and symptoms improving), Wear your mask through day 10 OR with two sequential negative tests 48 hours apart, you may remove your mask sooner than day 10.

Vaccines

All students, faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated. This is the number one way to protect ourselves and our community. 

Please note, no one is considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after receiving the Johnson and Johnson shot, or two weeks after receiving the second shot of Pfizer or Moderna. Being fully vaccinated will be important in some situations, especially in regard to requirements surrounding quarantine or participation in select off-campus activities, such as service sites. 

Health Screening 

If your child is exhibiting any COVID-19 symptoms, do not send them to school, even if they are fully vaccinated.   

Symptoms of COVID include: 

  • Fever greater than or equal to 100.4 F

  • New onset or worsening cough

  • Difficulty breathing

  • New loss of taste or small - or- 

  • At least two of the following:

    • Sore throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, muscle pain, excessive fatigue, new onset of headache, new onset of nasal congestion or runny nose.

If an unvaccinated person is experiencing any of the COVID symptoms above, a negative. COVID test is required before returning to school. It is also recommended that vaccinated people experiencing COVID symptoms take a COVID test.

Contact Tracing and Quarantine

CDH will follow the MDH Decision-Making Tree which provides the most up-to-date protocols and best practices based on variants and local rates of infections.

Parents must alert the CDH COVID Coordinator, Katie Carroll if a student has a positive case of COVID, or if they have been exposed to a known positive COVID case, whether they have symptoms or not. Parents must also alert the school if the student is un-vaccinated and any member of their household has a positive diagnosis of COVID.  

A student can return to school following a positive diagnosis five days after their first symptoms or postiive Covid test, and they have been symptom-free for at least 24 hours. Students will be required to wear an N or KN95 mask for five days after returning to school. 
 
Unvaccinated students, and those who's last does was more that six months ago, who are un-masked with exposed to a positive case, will be required to quarantine for five days, be asymptomatic and wear an N or KN95 test upon return to school. 
 

If masked, most students will not be required to quarantine upon exposure, unless they become symptomatic. 

We are following the MDH guidelines on what to do if you have a close contact with COVID-19 or test positive for COVID-19.

Of special note: CDH students will not have a remote learning option this year. Students will not have access to the teacher and class via Zoom or other technology when absent.  There will be no synchronous learning so students will have to complete their work as independent study. A student on quarantine due to COVID exposure will be considered an excused absence.   

Monitoring and Adjustment to Protocols

CDH COVID Coordinator Katie Carroll and School Nurse Tara Kaup continue to monitor all guidance regarding spread, risk and COVID protocols. 

At the end of each month, CDH will review our school’s COVID protocols, with attention to our local, state and national guidance surrounding schools and COVID. Once the situation improves, CDH will update this protocol. It is our sincere hope that these mitigation measures, such as masking, will become less necessary as the COVID situation improves.

Again, thank you for your support as we launch the school year with these structures in place to protect the health and safety of our community and to maintain in-person learning.  We want you to have this information as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please contact our COVID Coordinator, Katie Carroll, by email or by calling 651-696-3325.