ECS Covid-19 Guidelines

Covid-19 Symptoms on Campus

Under CDC recommendations, any person exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms will be assumed to have COVID- 19 unless a negative test or alternative diagnosis by a medical professional deems otherwise.

Therefore, we will immediately contact a student’s parents and expect the student to be immediately picked up if any such symptoms are noted. COVID-19 symptoms include the following:

• Fever or chills
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body ache
• Headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea or vomiting
• Diarrhea

Covid-19 Case on Campus

If any student, faculty, staff or on-campus essential service worker tests positive for COVID-19, we will follow the CDC recommendations which state that the individual may return to our campus when all three of the following criteria are met:

• At least 72 hours have passed since fever ended (resolution of fever without the use of fever reducing medications).
• The individual has improvements in symptoms.
• At least ten days have passed since symptoms first appeared.
• A person may return to campus after one negative test.

We will inform all parents, teachers, staff, and essential service workers when a positive case emerges, and inform all families whose child came in “close contact” with the infected person.

The identity of the person who tested positive will be kept confidential. A person that has tested positive also has the option to self-identify. Any person who has had “close contact” with the person who tested positive must quarantine for a period of 14 days prior to returning to campus.

Our cohort model and social distancing practices will allow the school to remain open if there is a positive case on campus, since everyone who has not had “close contact” would be able to continue with classes on campus.

If several students in a given class had “close contact” with another student that has tested positive, we will transition that individual class into distance learning until return to school criteria has been met.