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Hello everyone,
A lot has changed since this conversation in December. What is everyone thinking now?
In December we thought we were going to require vaccination. Now we are backing off of that primarily because it seems that the CDC guidance for quarantine is based on “up to date” vaccination. So, just being vaccinated isn’t getting us anywhere, you also have to be “up to date” with boosters and that seems like a moving target that could change quickly and many younger people who got the initial vaccines are not getting boosters. Also, our schools aren’t doing anything anymore… they are not posing/masking/contact tracing/ and they are not even telling parents if someone was positive in their kid’s classes.
Is anyone willing to share policies now? We are thinking about using the CDC NEW Red/Yellow/Green map saying “if all the counties in our jurisdiction or where campers are primarily coming from” are red, then we will go back to all of the NPIs from last summer. But if they are all “Green or Yellow” (which they are all green now) then we will highly recommend up-to-date vaccines, test upon arrival, and operate as “pre-covid”… until there is a positive test. Then we have a question…. since we won’t be cohorting/poding everyone could be exposed. So we are debating about saying anyone who is not “up to date” needs to go home. We really don’t want to say that as it could be a lot. So, we are wondering if we could implement cohorts/pods and protocols like masks and such at that point and monitor everyone and test after 5 days if they are still there or test everyone immediately. We are mostly one week.
I am wondering if we should require masks and poding inside even for the “green and yellow” plan, but not outside. I”m not sure what that gets us. Because it doesn’t change who may have been in contact for quarantining…
Is there a way to have attachments on these conversations??? I’m not seeing it.
Thanks,
Jill Frey
Ohio