Anchorage School District shortens COVID-19 isolation period to 5 days for students and staff, with caveats:
document — which is available online, and which Bishop linked to in her email.
That document includes additional information on what students and staff should do after a close contact, the emergence of COVID-19 symptoms or a positive test result. It says that students and staff with virus symptoms and a negative test result can return to school as long as they are fever-free without fever-reducing medicine for at least 24 hours and have improved symptoms, the document says.
A five-day quarantine for unvaccinated staff and students who are close contacts of someone with COVID-19 is recommended but not required by the school district, the document says. Driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant, COVID-19 case counts have been rising sharply in the state and around the country, though omicron cases appear milder than prior variants and have not yet overloaded hospitals in Alaska. By Friday,
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