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: Case and outbreak guidance should also be followed for sports where the participants are within grades P-12. Additional guidance for sports is found on the Organized Sports page . Special Considerations for Child Care
Child care and pre-K settings are different from K-12 settings in important ways. The particular facilities, curriculum, and modes of supervision in child care facilities require modifications to the outbreak guidance developed for K-12 settings. Please take note of special instructions for pre-K and child care settings throughout the document. In the guidance and tools below, the term “schools” includes K-12 schools and child care providers, including in-home providers. Residential settings, including overnight camps and group homes, have different transmission characteristics and abilities to isolate and quarantine as compared to K-12 schools and other child care settings. These settings should follow the outbreak guidance relevant to their particular circumstances. Definitions
Confirmed case: a case in a person who has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus using certain laboratory tests (usually PCR).