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: 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). 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: