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Question: Can you talk about the 14 day quarantine for anyone who was in close contact with a covid positive person? The 14 day quarantine guidance does not include a required COVID test, but couldn't the person begin presenting symptoms or present with COVID even up to the 14th day of the quarantine?

Susan Neeley Gaston County Schools, Good Morning

Would you provide Larry's contact information in the chat please?

Will PE also be addressed in updated guidance?

Good morning everyone! Jean Sawyer - School Nurse Camden County Schools

Good Morning - Heather Duane, School Nurse Onslow County Schools

Good morning, everyone! Deborah Hoffman, Principal, Jacksonville Commons Elementary School (Onslow County Schools)

Monica Hurley, Randolph County School System

Welcome to everyone! So excited you could join!

Good Morning! Terri Gallop - Washington County Schools

Larry D. Michael, REHS, MPHState Environmental Health Director/Section ChiefDivision of Public HealthOffice: 919 707 5855larry.michael@dhhs.nc.gov

Good morning. Shamon Cheek, School Nurse-Weldon City Schools

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Larry D. Michael, REHS, MPHState Environmental Health Director/Section ChiefDivision of Public HealthOffice: 919 707 5855larry.michael@dhhs.nc.gov

Ashley Kennedy, Vance County Schools Nurse

Julie Burger - Asheville City Schools and Buncombe County School Health

Good morning. Brooke Hamby, Forsyth County Communicable Disease, School Investigation Team

Per Executive Order having no exception with wearing face mask during strenuous exercise-how does that affect students with chronic respiratory health problems during these times?

Mask breaks were allowed for school aged children. Is this still permitted?

Is there still language in the EO pertaining to people who may qualify for mak exclusions?

Is there not more risk with children taking sweaty masks on and off during strenuous exercise

In what manner is it recommended schools do mask breaks

Good Morning, Kathy Wiborg, Lead Nurse Washington County Schools.

will masks be required for individuals alone in their offices

Good morning, all - masks are required for PE, yes. But for an individual who is alone in their office, a mask would not be required.

Good morning! Janet Johnson, Lead Nurse, Harnett County Schools

https://files.nc.gov/covid/documents/guidance/NCDHHS-Interim-Guidance-for-Youth-Amateur-Sports.pdf

for this new quarantine guidance we are waiting on, can antigen testing be used at day 7 if no symptoms or just PCR tests? Do we know yet?

Does executive order 180 require prek students age 5 to wear a mask?

what about wearing masks at outside recess

If a person tests positive, but was asymptomatic, how do we determine quarantine dates for the person -- and for close contacts?

Please address outside recess explicitly

are masks required?

at the present time, our students do not wear masks while at the 30 minute recess time daily.

Do they need to have the mask on while at daily outside recess.

Hi all - Yes, students are required to wear masks during recess.

are going to allow testing out of quarantine with antigen testing or just PCR?

What is the guidance around providing mask breaks? What could this look like?

The current mask break guidance on page 5 of the StrongSchoolsNC guidance still applies

https://files.nc.gov/covid/documents/guidance/Strong-Schools-NC-Public-Health-Toolkit.pdf

Yes, if/when the CDC changes quarantine guidance we will be widely sharing what that means for our state - not only for our schools, but for everyone.

Page 5 mentions that it is ok to not wear the mask during strenuous activity. But, we are saying this has changed, correct?

Yes, that's exactly right - any reference to a mask exception during strenuous activity will be updated for December with reference to the new executive order 180

How do we sign up for the pilot for testing?

Are these more likely to produce a false positive or a false negative?

Will private schools have the opportunity to participate in the pilot testing program?

Thank you for the question about Spanish translations - We are working with our translations team to re-do our guidance translations. My hope is that by this Friday, we will also be back up-to-date with all of our guidance translated into Spanish.

If a person is asymptomatic, how would one know to possibly test? Missed the recommendation on previous slide regarding testing asymptomatic persons. Thank you

Thanks for this question, Shamon. We recommend for K-12 student/staff testing that a symptomatic individuals be tested, and that close contacts (whether they are symptomatic or not) be tested. For asymptomatic testing, something like testing 10% of your staff once a week as some of our higher education institutions are doing, we'd recommend adults be tested if a broader testing strategy is pursued.

How quickly will results of Binax be available after swabbing?

If they expire, what is the shelf life in general?

Thank you for your response. This webinar is very helpful. We have been working closely with our health department in Union County and have been working on procedures and consent forms for the past 3 weeks. The health department has said that they can provide us with 2000 antigen tests. We have our CLIA certificate in place. We would love to be part of the pilot program.

Will school districts that are full remote or Plan C be eligible to participate in the pilot program?

are you saying for rapid testing someone might collect the swab at the school then transport it to a waivered facility (LHD for example) to actually run the test?

would guardian consent be expected before testing symptomatic students?

Will parental consent be required for antigen testing?

Can this presentation be shared via email?

Yes...we will send this deck out with the recording later today.

who will be receiving the info on participation at the district level?

Currently we cannot accept a negative antigen test if someone is symptomatic without a follow up molecular/PCR test. How will that change with this process?

The information will be shared with all superintendents and charter leaders.

More information about the antigen testing pilot opportunity will be shared this week and widely distributed to all of our education and health leaders across the state - all the info about how to apply to be in the pilot will be included.

The BinaxNOW antigen tests (the specific manufacturer whose tests we have free from the federal government) provide results within 15 minutes, on site.

Responding to your question on quarantine: yes, a close contact to an infected person

close contact to an infected person (whether symptomatic or not) should quarantine for 14 days. And while testing at day 6 Is informative, "you do not test out of quarantine." A person testing negative at day 6 during quarantine should still continue quarantine through day 14.

Just a reflection: It is difficult to consider opening schools, thinking that a death of a staff or student may be the result of that decision.

Thank You Everyone for all of the great information shared today.

Thank you!

Thank you so much, everyone!

Thank you so much! These calls are absolutely invaluable!

thank you all so much, very informative session