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    COVID-19 Self-Screening Form for ISM Campus Visitors
    Monterey County Vaccine & Testing Sites

    Coronavirus Information & Updates

    Coronavirus Information & Updates

    Health guidelines

    • Students who test positive for COVID-19 are required to isolate at home and may NOT attend school. 

      • Parents should contact the school and report this absence, as always. When reporting the absence please make sure to include the date the positive test was administered and the first day the student experienced symptoms, if at all. 

        • Someone from the school, or the county health department, will follow up with you regarding the student’s absence. 

      • Five days after the positive test result, students should be retested. 

        • If the test is negative, and they are fever and symptom free, the student should return to school the following day, but must wear a mask on campus for an additional nine days. 

        • If the test is positive, the student should remain in isolation for an additional five days. After 10 days (from the original test date) students should return to school, regardless of test results, as long as they are fever and symptom free. When returning to campus the student must wear a mask on campus for an additional four days. 

    • Students exposed to someone with COVID-19 in school:

      • The school will notify families of students who spent more than a cumulative total of 15 minutes (within a 24-hour time period) in a shared indoor airspace with someone with COVID-19 during their period of infectiousness.

        • Notification will occur by "groups" of exposed students.

        • Notifications will be provided to all individuals considered exposed, including those who are vaccinated and/or recently infected. 

        • Students exposed on campus, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status or prior infection, should get tested for COVID-19 with at least one diagnostic test obtained within 3-5 days after last exposure.

          • In the event of wide-scale and/or repeated exposures, once weekly testing for COVID-19 may be considered until such time that exposure events become less frequent. 

      • Students exposed at school, who participate in testing, may continue to take part in all aspects of K-12 schooling, including sports and extracurricular activities, unless they develop symptoms or test positive for COVID-19. 

      • Any FDA-approved antigen diagnostic test, PCR diagnostic test, or pooled PCR test is acceptable for evaluation of an individual's COVID-19 status.
         

    • Students exposed to someone with COVID-19 at home, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status or prior infection, should get tested for COVID-19 with at least one diagnostic test obtained immediately. 

      • If they test positive they should then isolate at home and follow the school guidance in the section above.

      • If they test negative AND the positive household member is in isolation -  they should then quarantine at home for three days. If on the morning of day four the student is still negative they may return to school. If they test positive they should then isolate at home and follow the school guidance in the section above.

      • If they test negative AND the positive household member is NOT able to remain in isolation - they should then quarantine at home for five days. If on the morning of day six the student is still negative they may return to school. If they test positive they should then isolate at home and follow the school guidance in the section above.

    • Students exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the community, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status or prior infection, should get tested for COVID-19 with at least one diagnostic test obtained immediately and again 3-5 days after the last exposure.

      • If they test positive they should then isolate at home and follow the school guidance in the section above.

      • If they test negative AND the positive community member does NOT live in the student’s household - s/he may continue to take part in all aspects of K-12 schooling, including sports and extracurricular activities, unless they develop symptoms or test positive for COVID-19.  

    • Any family who does not wish to test their child after an exposure must keep their child home for 10 consecutive days following the initial exposure. On the 11th day the child may return to school. 

    Current ISM Status

    • ISM is providing in person instruction for the 2022-2023 school year. 

      • No hybrid or distance learning options are currently available.
         

    • To maximize safety, ISM has elected to implement the following policies and procedures effective with the start of the 2022-2023 school year:

      • To reduce the overall number of individuals sharing the space, only students, staff, authorized volunteers, and others conducting official business (e.g. district employees, contractors) may enter the school grounds during school hours.

        • Parents/guardians may enter campus to walk their children to the door of their homeroom class.

    • To minimize exposure to airborne viral droplets and aerosols ISM recommends that all staff, students and community members wear a mask on campus when indoors with others. 

    • To minimize COVID-19 infection both at school and at home:

      • ISM employees must be fully vaccinated with updated booster shots or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing. 

      • ISM strongly encourages all school community members to become fully vaccinated, if eligible. 

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