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What if a child experiences symptoms at home?
If the child has more than 37.5 degrees of temperature, has a cold, cough, headache, loss of taste or smell, the diarrhea should be kept at home. Parents should contact the pediatrician, who can determine if a swab is appropriate. him to make the first projection, even without visiting the child, but giving his consultation by phone, WhatsApp or email. At the same time, the school is notified of the reasons for the absence.
What if you have symptoms once you enter the classroom?
In this case, the school leaders isolate the sick child in a room and summon the parents. Also in this case, a passage with the reference pediatrician is required to establish whether, once the child is taken home, she must undergo a swab.
Where are you taken to take the exam?
For a few days, a priority channel has been active in Lombardy to subject school-age children to hyssop. In Milan and its province, there are 31 direct access points, many in drive-in mode (which perform the test directly in the car, by rolling down the window), almost all supported by hospitals. Parents with a self-certification endorsed by the pediatrician or school staff can come directly without reservation to take the exam immediately.
How long do you have to wait for the result?
Almost all the shortcuts are operational in the morning, to be able to process the exams in the afternoon and guarantee the result before 11 at night, although given the traffic in the laboratories, it can be postponed until the next day. The result is uploaded to the electronic medical record and anticipates the corresponding ATS call, which may arrive after a few days. In case of positivity, the report arrives immediately. To shorten the procedures, parents can sign the authorization of access to the data to the pediatrician, who in this case can check the result in real time.
What happens in the meantime in the classroom?
The person who undergoes the swab, until the result is determined, should remain in isolation, obviously without going to school. The rest of the classmates usually attend class. The goal of direct logins is to minimize the time so that you can isolate the class the next day.
What procedure is activated if it is positive?
The child or young person, once the swab is positive, remains isolated at home. At that time, all close contacts in the family and at school are quarantined. In the case of kindergartens, kindergartens or elementary schools, we opted for the quarantine of the whole class. For middle school or high school students, since it is easier to reconstruct internal relationships through an interview, part of the class can be isolated. At the end of the quarantine period, after 14 days, the positive child will be subjected to a double swab to certify recovery. Colleagues and close contacts, if they have not had symptoms such as requiring a tampon before, will perform one to return to class or leave the house. If the swab result is negative, return to class with the swab certificate.
What is the balance for the first 20 days of classes?
Of the 30,257 swabs made to children and young people in Lombardy, 439 were positive: 1.45%. The highest number of infections occurred in secondary schools (141). In Milan, 33 positive (27 students and 6 operators), of which 14 in the city.
Are there other active school selection operations?
Statale and Asst Fatebenefratelli Sacco are monitoring 14 schools with 6,000 rapid tests, the so-called fingersticks. Yesterday the first results with an average seroprevalence of 3.25%. Which rises to 6% in the range of 3-6 years, to 4% between 6 and 10 years and drops to 2% from 11 to 18 years. No positive swab.
September 25, 2020 (change September 25, 2020 | 07:54)
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