Although large-scale, regular testing remains rare in the child care sector, the idea is gaining traction as omicron works its way into communities and as families fight to keep their kids in classrooms.
the use of a practice called test-to-stay. In test-to-stay, students who are exposed to the virus can remain in school if they test negative at least twice in the week after exposure. The CDC had previously recommended quarantines for those exposed.
Children are at extremely low risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19. But they’re still susceptible to contracting or at least carrying the virus, and they’re not eligible for vaccination. “While the whole country was agonizing about what we could do to make it safe for the mostly white K-12 workforce to return,” Muncey said, “no one batted an eye … at whether should go back to classrooms that, frankly, couldn’t be socially distanced.”
Over the course of their pilot, Muncey and her three team members developed a model that worked to keep centers open. The model involves weekly, pooled screening, when nasal swabs from a groupare combined for a single lab test. When a pool comes up positive, the original samples are tested to identify who's carrying the virus.
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