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SATG COVID-19
- Beginning September 8, 2020, parents or guardians should notify their school within 24 hours of receiving a positive test or a clinical diagnosis. This would include Remote, and Face to Face learners.
- Please email Cathy Kucera ([email protected]) or
- Ed Vittardi ([email protected]) 24 hours 7 days a weekif you receive a positive test or a clinical diagnosis of
COVID-19.- Within 24 hours after receiving the notification, the school will notify parents or guardians about that case in writing, providing as much information as possible without releasing protected health information. The school will use their existing email notification system to send out this information.
- Our school must also notify their local health department within 24 hours.
- Beginning September 15, 2020, local health departments will report the number of newly reported and cumulative cases to the Ohio Department of Health every Tuesday.
- The Ohio Department of Health will publish this data by school or school district, including a breakdown by students and staff, every Thursday.
- In addition, our school has identified a COVID-19 coordinator to facilitate the reporting of case information.
- For SATG School, that is Cathy Kucera, SATG School Nurse [email protected]
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Update 2-25-2022
February 25, 2022
Dear Parents:
I have written to all of you in regard to COVID 19 many, many times in the past 24 months. It is certainly easier to write with good news. Throughout this entire period, we have made decisions based upon local data. Our local data has recently become extremely and progressively encouraging. The number of COVID cases in our zip codes have become very small in number. In fact, four of our zip codes have no cases in the last two weeks while others are the smallest since we have tracked these in the pandemic. It is for that reason that Father Estok and I met with the Saint Albert the Great School Advisory Covid Task Force again last evening. It was the unanimous recommendation of the group to incorporate the following changes effective Monday, February 28th.
- The wearing of masks will be OPTIONAL for all students and staff (except public school bus transportation in which they are still mandated}. We realize many of you will still want your children to wear masks. Please make your intentions clear to your child and their teacher so we can support that decision.
- Mask to Stay guidelines as directed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health will still be in place. Direct contacts (unless a household contact), regardless of vaccination or masking status, may remain in the classroom environment if they do the following:
- Wear a mask for 10 days after their last date of exposure.
- Self-monitor, or parent-monitor, for symptoms of COVID-19.
- Isolate and get tested if they start to experience symptoms associated with COVID-19 (regardless of level of severity).
- Sibling illness protocols will be removed. It is not necessary to have healthy siblings remain home when there is illness in the home.
- The 24-hour fever guidelines will be implemented, reduced from 72 hours.
- All positive COVID exposures and positive cases still need to be reported to the school as soon as aware. Email [email protected] and [email protected]
We have already returned most all of our activities including field trips and full school Mass attendance. Normalcy has been returning day by day to SATG and these additional measures will move us even closer to that goal.
Please know how much we appreciate your cooperation and support throughout these last months. I have never been prouder of our SATG students, staff and families!!!!
As always, it is my hope that we continue to see the promising retreat of the virus and that a pivot to our COVID protocols will not be necessary.
Please know you and your families are in my prayers and I ask that you keep me in yours as we approach the Lenten season.
In Christ Peace,
Ed Vittardi
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