Return to School after Illness

The Garrison Union Free School District has established protocols and procedures, in consultation with the local health department(s), about the requirements for determining when individuals, particularly students, who screened positive for COVID-19 symptoms can return to the in-person learning environment at school.

This protocol includes:

• Documentation from a health care provider following evaluation

• Negative COVID-19 diagnostic test result

• Symptom resolution, or if COVID-19 positive, release from isolation

• The District will refer to DOH’s “Interim Guidance for Public and Private Employees Returning to Work Following COVID-19 Infection or Exposure” regarding protocols and policies for faculty and staff seeking to return to work after a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 or after the faculty or staff member had close or proximate contact with a person with COVID-19.

• The District requires that individuals who were exposed to the COVID-19 virus complete quarantine and have not developed symptoms before returning to in- person learning. The discharge of an individual from quarantine and return to school will be conducted in coordination with the local health department.