Outdated CDC guidance may lead to a fourth year of disrupted schooling in some districts
The agency still recommends close contact testing and quarantines
With many children having experienced catastrophic learning loss during the pandemic, it is essential that the upcoming school year be as smooth as possible, but some districts will continue to apply CDC close contact testing and quarantine guidance that could lead to healthy children missing weeks of classroom instruction. One of those districts is metro Atlanta’s City Schools of Decatur.
According to the CSD mitigation plan, which links to CDC guidance, “individuals who are not up to date on Covid-19 vaccinations will be required to quarantine as directed by the CDC guidance [see below] if identified as a close contact.”
This means unvaccinated or unboosted students or staff will have to do the following if identified as a “close contact” (i.e. exposed to confirmed or suspected Covid-19 case for 15 minutes indoors) at school. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been previously infected.
