So my wife and daughter tested positive, my daughter had 1 day of symptoms and my wife has been asymptomatic. From what I read my son and I have to quarantine 14 days after contact (kids are not at the age where they can isolate) on top of the 10 days my wife and daughter have to quarantine.

Is there anyway we can reduce the time for my son's quarantine so he does not miss almost a month of school and testing negative the entire time? Seems insane to me that we are keeping kids home for that long without having any illness and testing negative the entire time.

Wife works in health care and we often see the in-laws that are 65+ so after my daughter had a known contact with her pre-school teacher testing positive and having a symptom we had to get her tested. Looking at it again it is 10 days for my wife/daughter and then my son can return 8 days after that with a negative test or 11 days if symptom free and approved by the nurse. So minimum of 18 days

sellthefarm said:

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I'll get ripped for saying this, but just wash your hands and wear a mask as much as you need to justify to yourself that your 14 days started the day your daughter tested positive.

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This is your best bet and I think the science will show as well as time goes on. But it's just not realistic to quarantine that long (24 days).

My situation. I had Covid first in our house but didn't test at first with symptoms starting Thursday. Then my wife started to feel bad and my kids got a fever. Mild ones. That was Saturday night. Monday the kiddos had fevers still so I took them to the pediatrician. I felt fine by then overall. They tested positive and the clock for them started from that Saturday. I tell work and the fact is we cannot quarantine the kiddos obviously so I am going to have contact as will wife. The school nurse at the MS where I work called me to say that I won't be able to return to work until Feb 11 unless I test positive but that since my symptoms had past I might test negative by then. But if I tested positive I could return to work 10 days after symptoms went away and the clock would start that Thursday I first noticed them. Meaning I could return the next Monday latest the last week of Jan. Crazy. So I wanted a positive test so I could return to work. Luckily it was positive. So I returned that next week. Our school nurse hates these quarantine rules but they are what they are.

My work has a similar policy to the CDC and I can return way earlier than my son. After 10 days and a negative test I can come back. Most of our customers and a large portion of our company has already had it since we did not shut down at all.

I have some personal experience with this one. Wife and one kid got covid 2+ weeks ago. We could not have isolated more thoroughly; they lived upstairs for 10 days while my healthy youngest lived down with me (both of us negative). They come out of 10 day quarantine and I test positive 4 days later (initially tested negative 2 days after they came out when i had a bit of congestion) . Doc seems to think i was exposed at the beginning and just had a really long incubation, but who knows

We had an exposure for one of my kids recently and he is at home. The school said to keep sending the other kids to campus.

The boy can go back either 14 days from exposure+symptom free or if he is negative on a PCR taken 9 days after confirmed exposure.

Your scenario seems crazy to me.

By the way, CVS turned a PCR test in about 18 hours. They really have this testing thing down pat.

Check with your son's school for their specific protocol.

When I tested positive in early December, we had the option to go back after 7 days following a negative test IF my son completely isolated from me. I was told we were "on the honor system" when it came to isolation.

We were near the end of the 9 weeks, though, and this was right before the Christmas holidays came so he just opted to finish out the semester at home.

sellthefarm said:

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I'll get ripped for saying this, but just wash your hands and wear a mask as much as you need to justify to yourself that your 14 days started the day your daughter tested positive.

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I just got hit like a freight train yesterday morning after being in a house with two positive people for 10 days...i had a pcr done 6 days post know exposure too people who where symptomatic, that was negative. Don't assume you're not going to catch it in the last few days they're contagious. I isolated, sanitized hands, mask, whole nine yards.

Jbob04 said:

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Should be 14 days from their test date. Nobody is quarantining for 24 days.

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Schools are, unless you isolated from the symptomatic person. That is exactly the protocol. Might be able to shorten the 14 day exposure quarantine with a negative test now but that has been the practice of same household symptomatic covid.

My son's kindergarten teacher came over yesterday to drop off some work and we verified, 18 days with test, 24 without testing.