My daughter woke up friday morning with a sore throat and fever. We kept her home from school. When her fever kept escalating, I took her to urgent care on saturday night, and they said she probably had H1N1. She still had her fever last night, but it was gone this morning. She still has the sore throat, though. Her school has a policy that you’re supposed to keep the kid home until she’s been fever-free for 24 hours.
My question:
If the kid’s fever has been gone for 24 hours but she still has the sore throat, is she still contagious for H1N1? We don’t want her to miss any more school, but we don’t want to send a Typhoid Mary into the classroom either?
Have them send her work home. While its likely that she caught it from someone at the school, sending her back too early is going to expose dozens of her classmates, plus their siblings, their parents, their parents co-workers, etc.