Dear Putnam Valley School Community,<\/p>\n
This afternoon, the District was notified that an individual at Putnam Valley Middle School has tested positive for COVID-19.\u00a0 As required by law, we must maintain this person\u2019s confidentiality, which prevents us from further identifying the individual.<\/p>\n
We are working collaboratively with the Putnam County Department of Health to identify any students or staff members who may have been exposed.\u00a0 Students who are determined to be potential contacts of the positive individual will be contacted via email, staff members who are identified as contacts will be contacted directly by an administrator.<\/p>\n
Any exposed individuals must quarantine for 14 days and are encouraged to get tested five days after their last exposure. A negative test is not required to return to school at the conclusion of the quarantine period. Additionally, a negative test does not reduce the 14 day quarantine period.\u00a0 In accordance with guidance from the New York State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, the school has been cleaned and disinfected in the areas where COVID positive individual was present.\u00a0 More information on precautionary quarantine can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n The New York State Department of Health has a contact tracing system in place for when there is a confirmed positive case of COVID-19. If you are identified as a contact of the person who tested positive, you should receive a call from a contact tracer. For such calls, your caller ID may read\u00a0NYS Contact Tracing\u00a0or display a phone number with a 518 area code. Please answer these calls promptly and provide the Contact Tracers with the information they need to protect our school community and families.<\/p>\n As a reminder, if you believe at any point you may have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19, you should self-quarantine and speak to your healthcare provider.\u00a0 If you suspect you or a family member is becoming ill, stay home and consult with a physician.\u00a0 Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, muscle pain, fatigue, new onset of loss of taste and\/or smell, and sometimes vomiting or diarrhea.<\/p>\n Visit the\u00a0NY State Find a Test Site Near You<\/a>\u00a0page and enter your address to view a list of the nearest testing sites. For more information on COVID-19, please call (866) 588-0195 or visit the\u00a0Putnam County Department of Health at Putnam County Department of Health website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thank you for your understanding and patience.\u00a0 We remain committed to the health and safety of all our students and staff.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Dr. Jeremy Luft<\/p>\n Superintendent of Schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Putnam Valley School Community, This afternoon, the District was notified that an individual at Putnam Valley Middle School has tested positive for COVID-19.\u00a0 As required by law, we must maintain this person\u2019s confidentiality, which prevents us from further identifying the individual. We are working collaboratively with the Putnam County Department of Health to identify… Continue Reading Msg. from Dr. Luft – COVID Notification 11-25-20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-superintendent","tag-covid19","clearfix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8478,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions\/8478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}