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How Long Should Kids Stay Out of School After They’ve Had COVID?

MedPageToday When the daughter of MedPage Today‘s editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, got COVID in September, he strategized how best to prevent spread of the virus while causing the least disruption to her school schedule.

He debated whether the CDC’s most recent isolation guidelines  — which recommend resuming activities when symptoms are resolving and you’ve been fever-free for 24 hours — went far enough to stop the spread.

You can read his full plan in Inside Medicine but in the meantime, we asked other healthcare professionals with children how they’ve been handling return-to-school after their kids had COVID.

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