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**Note that information regarding symptoms and recommended symptom wait time changes based on health cares recommendations.
If a student becomes ill at school with the following symptoms, a form will be filled out and parents will be called.
Parents: If your child has asthma, a regular runny nose, or headaches without additional symptoms, and you would have normally sent them to school, then continue to send them to school.
However, if any of the “regular” symptoms are combined with COVID related symptoms or a combination of symptoms that aren’t typical for your child, then keep them home. Please contact your health provider if you are uncertain. See the Penn Medicine document.
Recommendations for being symptom free (without medications).
If the student experiences the following symptoms they should not report to school:
- Temperature of more than 100.4
- Coughing or shortness of breath
- Loss of smell and taste
- Headaches
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
When to Return to school:
Students/Teachers may not return to school unless 48 hour symptom free.
Combination of more than one symptom from the list above:
- Temperature of more than 100.4
- Coughing or shortness of breath
- Loss of smell and taste
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Students/Teachers may not return to school until 24 hour symptom free.
- Headaches
- Cough related to allergies, asthma, or cleared by a doctor
- Itchy throat
- Runny nose
