April 29, 2021
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April 27, 2021
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April 22, 2021
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April 21, 2021
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REMINDER
Ottawa Elementary Families- Please remember to continue to check your child’s temperature and screen for COVID like symptoms prior to sending your child to school or the bus stop. Please check your child for a fever of 100.4 or higher, congestion, runny nose, headache, stomach ache, new loss of taste or smell, nausea, fatigue, muscle or body aches.
If your child exhibits any of these symptoms, please contact us and keep your child home from school.
Nurse Contacts
Lincoln
Abbey Niewinski
815-434-1250 Ext. 3005
[email protected]
Jefferson
Gina Hogan
815-434-0726 Ext. 2005
[email protected]
Shepherd
Angela Doermann
815-434-7925 Ext. 5005
[email protected]
Central
Samantha Alvarado
815-433-3761 Ext. 1005
[email protected]
McKinley
Rachel Bressner
815-433-1907 Ext. 4005
[email protected]
GENERAL GUIDELINES and INFORMATION
The teachers and other staff members at Ottawa Elementary are very excited to have students back on Wednesday. However, we want to make sure that families understand the new IDPH requirements that were most recently updated on August 13
th. Students will be required to go home more quickly, with less serious symptoms, than in previous years. If a student goes home sick with known COVID-19 symptoms, the school district is now required to send home all the other children who live in that household. A doctor’s note would need to be obtained documenting an alternative diagnosis or a negative COVID-19 test result, otherwise the children in that household would not be able to return for up to 14 days (the initial sick student could return in 10 days). If your child is currently experiencing allergies, or other possible symptoms of COVID-19, please consider contacting your local physician to obtain the documentation that will be required for school. For more information, please see the full IDPH document:
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/IDPH-School-FAQs.pdf
How many symptoms does a person need to have to be considered suspect COVID-19?
Students and staff exhibiting one or more COVID-like symptoms should be immediately isolated, and evaluated. Schools should evaluate each student/staff to determine if this symptom is new or if it is part of an existing condition for this student/staff
If a student is sent home sick with suspected COVID-19 symptoms (e.g., runny nose, fever, diarrhea, etc.), must all their siblings/household members be sent home as well and quarantined for 14 calendar days?
Yes, if one of the household members is being evaluated for COVID-19, the rest of the household must be quarantined until an alternative diagnosis is made or negative result received. If the sick student becomes a confirmed case (i.e., tests positive for COVID-19) or a probable case (i.e., has COVID-like symptoms and is epidemiologically linked to known case), the local health department (LHD) conducting contact tracing will place household contacts, including siblings, in quarantine for 14 calendar days. The health department also will provide guidance on how to safely quarantine and isolated within the household.