Dear NUSD Community,

This week NUSD is seeing an increase in COVID positive cases across our district, and we’d like to share a couple of reminders:

  • If your child has been exposed or considered a close contact to a COVID positive person either at school or in the community, please have them wear a mask for 5 days in public and at school until a negative test result is received.
  • Test your child if they become symptomatic. Rapid antigen tests are readily available at all NUSD schools.
  • If your child tests positive, isolate for 5 days, a negative test on Day 5 is required to return to school on Day 6 or later if symptoms are resolving and without fever for 24 hours (without the use of medication).
  • NUSD is seeing that children that are exposed are testing positive 3-5 days after becoming symptomatic.

 

  • Positive person: Anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 with either an antigen or PCR test within the past 10 days.
  • Infectious period: 48 hours prior to and including the day symptoms began and 5-10 subsequent days. If the positive person has no symptoms, the infectious period is 48 hours prior to and including the day that the positive test was taken and 5-10 days afterwards.
  • Close Contact: Anyone who has shared indoor airspace for a duration of 15 minutes or more.
  • High Risk Exposures: Certain exposures may be deemed higher risk for transmission, such as, in a household with longer periods of exposure, or while performing unmasked activities with increased exertion and/or voice projection or during prolonged close face-face contact (e, g., during contact sports like wrestling, during indoor group singing, during crowded events where cheering occurs like games, concerts or rallies, particularly if indoors). In such cases, exposed persons should be extra vigilant in undertaking recommended mitigation measures.

More information can be found in the Marin County Public Health and Marin County Office of Education Isolation, Quarantine, and Travel Guidance for TK-12 Schools can be found here.

We appreciate your help in keeping our schools safe for everyone.

Respectfully,

Jan La Torre-Derby, Ed.D., Superintendent

Leslie Benjamin, Director, Communications  & Community Engagement