Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

My son is home sick, second ear infection i a month, sitting is cold drafty class rooms isn't helping in anyway.

One of mine has 9/20 out in their class since the beginning of last week. It'll go around a bit, like any winter virus.

It seems to be calming down in our school after carnage before christmas and in the first two weeks of Jan. Only one out in my younger daughter's first class yesterday, and three out in my older one's fourth class. Less out sick than there would be in a normal January. That said, they are still uploading work to seesaw for the kids at home, so there must be more out in the other classes, but I'll know that it has all calmed down once they stop uploading the home-schoolers work.

Well technically speaking the child has recovered from Covid so is not obliged to isolate if a close contact

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I had same

One child,few days later another one.I asked contact tracer when she called for 2nd child close contacts.She said first child can go back after isolation period finishes,doesnt matter second child cought covid few days later

Thanks - confused as I thought they would fall within the rules of being close contacts even though they are through it themselves already. Don’t want them to go back into school and pass on anything from home.

Agree cluedo. The 5 yr old has it now one day tired / temp & right as rain after. We just did 2 antigens came straight up positive & it's running through the class. Didn't bother with PCR. What's the story re getting a recovery cert for her or any of us if we get it off her (going to US at Easter might save her having to do an antigen if that still a thing!) .

Can someone please clarify as I'm finding different things online, 5yo symptoms on 23rd so today is day 8, can he go back to school tomorrow even though still faint positive antigen? Rang HSE, they said yes but wear a mask?! My 8yo has remained negative throughout but from what I read he has to stay home 14 days?

Why 14 days? It says in the above graphic household close contact age 0-12 restrict for 7 days ?

This is from the HSE site

Age 4 to 12 and a household close contact

Here's what you need to do if your child is aged between 4 and 12 years old and a household close contact.

There is separate advice if your child has recovered from COVID-19 after getting a positive test anytime since 1 December 2021.

Testing

Your child needs to do 3 antigen tests over 7 days.

They should do the:

• first test as soon as possible
• second test 3 days after their first test
• third test on the 7th day of their restricted movements period

So the schools are a safe, 50 cases in my kids primary school in the last week. That's about 10% of the school, 13 in my kids class so far, including my two (I have twins). Their teacher was off in November for two weeks, we weren't told but it was probably Delta, hope she doesn't get it again. For kicks and giggles there is another dose doing the rounds my son has it last week so that's two weeks off school for him.

Great Post and alot of parents would gladly like to see this instead of the mish mash that is the hse site.

Just one addition to your post... if the unvaccinated sibling of a positive case does not get covid they must stay home for 14 days (assuming the positive case could not self isolate). This is not clear on the hse site and I'm annoyed that lots of parents are sending children back to school too soon.

This is the case if the positive case can isolate. It says then unvaccinated persons can stop restricting movements 7 days after last contact.

if the house member cannot isolate then it’s 14 days

https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/covid19/restricted-movements/caring-for-people-who-cant-self-isolate/#your-situation

It doesn't say anywhere in that the article that he says we should keep them beyond February 28th.

The masks should be off the children. Ridiculous they’re trying to coerce parents into putting their children forward for the vaccine using masks as the weapon to do so.

1. Nearly all children had Omicron at Christmas or will have had it shortly, and therefore immunity.
2. Vaccine benefit v risk ratio is not in favour of the vaccine for children. It’s currently running at 1 in every 2,200 children aged 5-11 with reported side effects after 88,000 doses given according to HPRA. The doctors claim it will prevent the rare inflammatory condition which they use a figure of 1 in 3,000 for. This article gives the figures in which the headline also includes the 12+ age group. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/one-in-2-500-children-with-vaccine-reports-suspected-side-effect-1.4781873
3. The vaccine is for the Wuhan strain of Covid which isn’t the current strain in circulation.
4. It doesn’t prevent transmission or infection.
5. Teaching and learning is severely impacted with masks on younger children.