Beech Tree student tests positive for COVID-19
A student at Beech Tree Elementary School has tested positive for COVID-19, Principal Karim Daugherty announced in an email to families Nov. 4. Beech Tree is in the Falls Church area of Mason District.
“Any student or staff member identified as part of the impacted cohort will receive notification if it is necessary to temporarily transition to distance learning or teleworking until contact investigation and tracing is completed,” she says. “However, our school remains open to staff and all other in-person cohorts at this time.”
Anyone associated with Beech Tree who does not receive a call from the health department should assume that they have not been exposed to the individual with COVID.
The health department advises parents not to send any child experiencing respiratory symptoms to school.
A child who shows up with respiratory systems will be sent home and won’t be able to come back until they bring in a note from a healthcare provider.
Depending on the child’s diagnosis, parents could be required to keep the child home and away from others until the child has been symptom-free and without fever for at least 24 hours without the use of medication.
3 responses to “Beech Tree student tests positive for COVID-19”
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We'll all get it eventually & many of us have probably already had it without even knowing it. Hopefully an effective vaccine will come out soon before herd immunity finally takes place cus that will probably take a few years at least to achieve.
This is not a shock. With the number of playdates parents are having with others, taking kids into stores, traveling, picking up food at restaurants, dining in (even outside), etc. that people are now doing – cases are rising and will continue to do so. Play dates outside even with masks on can cause spread. And most aren't even doing that. This will happen. We can't let the kids suffer for years because of it.
probably everyone has already got covid its just not a surprise anymore but hopefully students get to go back to school in January