Illinois officials said Tuesday they halved the recommended quarantine time for students and teachers from 10 to five days.
As Illinois schools struggle to staff classrooms pummeled by the latest COVID-19 surge, state officials said Tuesday they halved the recommended quarantine time for students and teachers from 10 to five days.
In addition, students and staff who test positive must “continue to wear a mask around others for five more days after returning to school,” officials said. Individuals may return to school after five days if asymptomatic or “fever-free without fever-reducing medication for 24 hours, diarrhea/vomiting have ceased for 24 hours, and other symptoms have improved.
“But this new guidance looks extremely difficult to maintain, because there are so many permutations. ... It assumes that every mask is good, and that all schools have the ability to maintain 6 feet of distance,” Montgomery said, referring to a slate of directives that accompanies the CDC’s shorter quarantine recommendation.
Still, some teachers say while they are hopeful the shortened quarantine recommendations could help avoid school shutdowns by bringing teachers who test positive back into the classroom sooner, and might reduce the amount of school students miss, following the expanded guidance could prove nearly impossible.
“I just don’t think five days are as safe as 10, especially for schools that don’t have all of the support our district has,” said Baehr, a school librarian at Niles West High School in Skokie. “Putting economics above health and safety is not going to help students or help us attract and retain educators,” said Griffin.
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