Employee Information

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has lifted the requirement for face coverings to be worn by students, staff, and visitors when outdoors on school property, regardless of vaccination status, and regardless of whether or not physical distancing can be maintained. 

Face coverings will no longer be required for children or adults during any outdoor activities on Lakeside Union school campuses. This includes PE, lunch, recess, breaks, pick-up, and drop-off, etc.

CDPH also indicates that no one can be prevented from wearing a face-covering outdoors if they so choose.

Though no longer required, CDPH currently strongly recommends that individuals continue to mask in
indoor school settings. Masking will continue to be an important layer of protection to keep our school
staff safe.

Employees are not required to wear masks indoors at non-school sites. The CDC does recommend
masking at all times in healthcare settings, including school nurse’s offices.

A close contact is defined as the following:

1. Close Contact  is defined as someone sharing the same indoor airspace (e.g., home, clinic waiting room, airplane etc.) for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minutes) during an infected person’s (laboratory-confirmed or a clinical diagnosis) infectious period.
2. Anyone who is within 90 days of a prior COVID-19 infection do not need to test. 
3. If the exposed person has symptoms consistent with COVID-19, they must stay home, should get tested, and must follow the guidance in the SDCOE Decision Tree. 
4. Students and employees who test positive must stay home and notify the school/employer of the positive test. To continue to participate in school and extracurricular activities, student close contacts should test negative on Day 3, 4, or 5 following their last exposure. 
5.  Schools are not required to verify negative test results. 
6. Parents are expected to test their children as required by the public health order and notify the school of positive test results. It is strongly recommended that exposed students wear a well-fitting mask indoors around others for at least 10 days following the date of last exposure. Employees must wear a well-fitting mask indoors around others for at least 10 days following the date of last exposure to a person who was contagious

Return to Work Criteria

1. Stay home until symptoms have improved according to existing school policy, typically 24 hours without fever and no use of fever reducing medicine.

2. Then use the Close Contact and Quarantine Tree to determine when return to work or school is permitted

Has symptoms, use the Symptom and Isolation Tree.  HHSA and the San Diego County Office of Education 

A person (vaccinated or unvaccinated) has one or more symptoms associated with COVID-19 Possible symptoms include fever, 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, and/or diarrhea. 

YOU MUST TAKE THE FOLLOWING STEPS

1. 24 hours without a fever (no meds) AND
2. Then use the Close Contact and Quarantine Tree to determine when return to work or school is permitted.  HHSA and the San Diego County Office of Education
3. At least 5 days from symptom onset or test date

You must take the following steps:

1. Contact the school/district office immediately. 
2. Stay at home until they fulfill one of the following return to school criteria.

HHSA Criteria to Return to Work

You must isolate and you may return when you fulfill the following criteria:

1. At least 5 days from symptom onset or test date AND
2. 24 hours without a fever (no meds) AND
3. Symptoms are improving
4. On Days 6 – 10, wearing a mask that fits snugly over the mouth and nose while indoors is recommended.

Please reference the illustration provided by HHSA and the San Diego County Office of Education for further information.