Title: Updated: Cases and outbreaks in child care and schools | Colorado COVID-19 Updates
Headings: Updated: Cases and outbreaks in child care and schools
Updated: Cases and outbreaks in child care and schools
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Special Considerations for Child Care
Definitions
Defining COVID-19 outbreaks in schools
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Tools to determine who needs to be home from school
Responding to COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in schools and child care
Criteria for closures
Notification letter templates
Considerations for ...
Reporting for schools and child care providers
Helpful links
Appendix
At-home symptom screening tool
Child/staff feels/appears unwell after arriving at school
Return to learn: guidance following a positive COVID-19 symptom screen
What happens to the close contacts?
Who is a close contact?

Content: Public health professionals will assign the case a definition using the Colorado COVID-19 case and outbreak definitions. School outbreak-associated case: a case among students, teachers, or staff that meets the outbreak definition. Family members or others outside the school who get sick should not be classified as outbreak-associated. COVID-like symptoms: loss of taste or smell, fever (100.4°F or higher), chills, new or worsening cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, headache, sore throat, muscle or body aches, congestion or runny nose, fatigue, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea. A person can be contagious two days before they start having symptoms and for 10 days after symptoms start. In children too young or unable to reliably report their symptoms, caregivers and teachers should monitor for symptoms and other age-appropriate signs of disease, including decreased appetite or activity. Symptoms of COVID-19 in this age group have not been well defined. Isolation: