Published on Oct 08, 2021
https //health screening.schools.nyc/ : All DOE employees, students, families, and visitors seeking to enter DOE buildings must complete a health screening before entering DOE facilities. This health screening must be completed on each day of arrival and results will reset at midnight of each day.
Upon entering the facility you will be asked to provide the results of your screening either by showing your phone or a printout of the results.
The guidance detailed here relates only to students in K-12 school settings and is unique for two reasons:
1. Children and adolescents with COVID-19 might experience different symptoms and varying symptom severity compared to adults. See “Information for Pediatric Healthcare Providers” for more information.
2. K-12 schools provide essential educational, developmental, and support services to students and families. Therefore, excluding students from school has different consequences from excluding individuals from other settings. This makes the considerations for symptom screening in students in K-12 schools different from those for other settings or populations.
Based on the best available evidence at this time,
• CDC does not currently recommend schools conduct symptom screening for all students in grades K-12 on a routine (e.g., daily) basis.
• Parents, caregivers, or guardians (“caregivers”) should be strongly encouraged to monitor their children for symptoms of infectious illness every day through home-based symptom screening.
• Students who are sick should not attend school in-person.
People with COVID-19 have a wide range of reported symptoms – from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19.
Symptoms can include
• Fever or chills
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body aches
• Headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea or vomiting
• Diarrhea
When implemented, symptom screening is intended to identify people who have possible symptoms of COVID-19. Those people are then kept from entering a setting to reduce the risk of spreading the virus that causes COVID-19. Screenings can be conducted in many ways and may range from assessing for only one symptom of COVID-19 (e.g., daily temperature checks to assess for fever) to assessing for multiple or all known COVID-19 symptoms.
There is no single approach to COVID-19 symptom screening that is right for all populations or settings, and there are limitations and challenges to using symptom screening in general, as well as using it as part of a school reopening strategy.
The effectiveness of COVID-19 symptom screening in schools is not well known. A recent study found that symptom screening that evaluated for all known COVID-19 symptoms and was conducted by health professionals in a hospital setting failed to identify nearly half (45%) of all pediatric patients infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, and 40% of those with COVID-19 symptoms did not have the virus that causes it.
