[BHS Etree] ADMIN: School Wide COVID Exposure Letter

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Fri Jan 6 20:29:38 PST 2023 

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January 6, 2023

Dear BHS Community,


Please do not reply to this message. If you have questions, contact BHS
Principal Juan Raygoza at juanraygoza at berkeley.net.

Working with our Public Health partners at the City of Berkeley and in
alignment with K-12 COVID-19 guidance from the California Department of
Public Health (CDPH) we are notifying you of high COVID-19 case rates in
our school community.  Given these high case rates, please consider it
possible that your student has been exposed to a COVID-19 case at school
this week.

During periods of higher case rates, the district does not make individual
parent/caregiver close contact notifications. Instead, the district uses
this notification to encourage parents/caregivers to exercise caution and
to do the following:


   -

   Test their students frequently for COVID-19
   -

   Screen for symptoms
   <https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html>
   before school
   -

   Keep any student with symptoms home and follow return-to-school
   protocols in the BUSD COVID-19 Safety Plan
   <https://www.berkeleyschools.net/covid/campus-safety/>
   -

   Report positive student cases using this Google form
   <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyK1cIT4ARrqCHVTCz-YfjmmfxkQksnQ_vSqG8TXnEn6Q6bA/viewform?usp=sf_link>
   or email covidcase at berkeley.net
   -

   Encourage indoor masking at school


Please encourage your student to take home the over-the-counter COVID-19
tests available to them at school. The district is also offering free
COVID-19 testing for students and staff on Mondays-Fridays from 10:30 am to
6:30 pm at the Curtis St. Entrance to Berkeley Adult School.  Berkeley
Adult School testing is not available on school holidays.

Most BHS students and staff are already registered in Primary Health for
BUSD’s free COVID-19 testing available at Berkeley Adult School. If your
student is not registered for BUSD testing through Primary Health and you
want to test at Berkeley Adult School, please register them here
<https://my.primary.health/l/berkeley_usd>. This is one-time registration
only.  It is not necessary to register for each test date.

We will inform the community when we determine we have the capability to go
back to individual close contact notifications for students.

Please refer to the COVID Case Dashboard
<https://www.berkeleyschools.net/coronavirus/case-dashboard/>to see case
numbers on a daily basis.


Thank you.



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6 de Enero de 2023,

Por favor, no responda a este mensaje. Si tiene preguntas, comuníquese con
el director de BHS, Juan Raygoza, en juan raygoza at berkeley.net.

Estimada comunidad de BHS,

Trabajando con nuestros compañeros de Salud Pública en la ciudad de
Berkeley y en consonancia con la orientación de K-12 COVID-19 del
Departamento de Salud Pública de California (CDPH por sus siglas en
inglés), le notificamos de las altas tasas de casos de COVID-19 en nuestra
comunidad escolar. Dadas estas altas tasas de casos, por favor considere,
si es posible, que su estudiante haya sido expuesto a un caso de COVID-19
en la escuela esta semana.

Durante los períodos de altas tasas de casos, el distrito no realiza
notificaciones individuales de contacto cercano con los padres/cuidadores.
En cambio, el distrito usa esta notificación para alertar a los
padres/cuidadores a tener cuidado y hacer lo siguiente:

●      Examinar a sus estudiantes con frecuencia para COVID-19

●    Detectar síntomas antes
<https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html> de
la escuela

●      Mantenga a cualquier estudiante con síntomas en casa y siga los
protocolos de regreso a la escuela en el Plan de Seguridad COVID-19 de BUSD
<https://www.berkeleyschools.net/covid/campus-safety/>

●      Reporte casos positivos de estudiantes utilizando este
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyK1cIT4ARrqCHVTCz-YfjmmfxkQksnQ_vSqG8TXnEn6Q6bA/viewform?usp=sf_link>formularia
de Google
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiMGCoxBKii6ncRnf43nylJvb8hMhCKiCUtZp-vYMIYaGqGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>
o envíe un correo electrónico a covidcase at berkeley.net

●      Fomente el enmascaramiento en interiores en la escuela

 Anime a su estudiante a llevarse a casa las pruebas COVID-19 de venta
libre disponibles para ellos en la escuela. El distrito también ofrece
pruebas gratuitas de COVID-19 para estudiantes y personal de lunes a
viernes de 10:30 a. m. a 6:30 p. m. en la entrada de Curtis St. a la
escuela para adultos de Berkeley. Las pruebas de la Escuela para Adultos de
Berkeley no están disponibles durante las vacaciones escolares.

La mayoría de los estudiantes y el personal de BHS ya están registrados en
Primary Health para las pruebas gratuitas de COVID-19 de BUSD disponibles
en Berkeley Adult School. Si su estudiante no está registrado para la
prueba de BUSD a través de Primary Health y desea realizar la prueba en la
Escuela para adultos de Berkeley, regístrelo aquí
<https://my.primary.health/l/berkeley_usd> . Este es un registro de una
sola vez. No es necesario registrarse para cada fecha de prueba.

Consulte el Tablero de casos de COVID
<https://www.berkeleyschools.net/coronavirus/case-dashboard/> para ver los
números de casos a diario.

Gracias.



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