ILLNESS AND EXPOSURE: 

1. If your child is not feeling well, keep them at home.
2. If your child or someone in the immediate household is experiencing symptoms of COVID, keep your child at home.
3.  If your child or someone in the immediate household has taken a COVID test and waiting results, keep your child at home until the test results are received as negative.
4. If your child tests positive for COVID, they must quarantine for 14 days*. 
5. If someone in your child’s household tests positive for COVID, your child must quarantine for 14 days (beginning 2 days after the person first experienced symptoms or beginning 2 days prior to taking the test). After the 14 days, your child must then take a COVID test and may return to the team following a negative result.

*CDC continues to endorse quarantine for 14 days and recognizes that any quarantine shorter than 14 days balances reduced burden against a small possibility of spreading the virus. Reducing the length of quarantine may make it easier for people to quarantine by reducing the time they cannot work. A shorter quarantine period also can lessen stress on the public health system, especially when new infections are rapidly rising. While public health authorities may reduce quarantine to 7-10 days, Herndon is maintaining a 14-day quarantine out of caution.

PROTOCOL AFTER EXPOSURE:

Communication with the club is an important first step in determining who is at risk and how best to ensure the safety of the players, the teams and the community. It is important for the club to have details to gather a timeline and do contact tracing to determine if a player must quarantine and/or if the team is at risk and must also quarantine. Decisions are made considering the risk of primary exposure (contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or is displaying symptoms) or secondary exposure (contact with someone who has been exposed to someone else who tested positive for COVID-19 or is displaying symptoms).

• In the event of exposure to someone displaying symptoms, or someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, the player must quarantine and contact coach, manager and Club Administrator Michelle Alioto (703.945.6768; michelle.alioto@herndonyouthsoccer.org). Based on the information, the club will determine the next steps.

In this scenario, quarantine is used to keep the player from possibly exposing others. The player can then return to the team after a 14-day quarantine from the date of exposure or can return before with a negative COVID-19 test result. If a player is in continued close-contact with someone who has symptoms or tests positive for COVID, the player must quarantine for 14 days and then must have a negative COVID-19 test result before returning to the team. This scenario would most likely include living in the same household where the risk of exposure continues, whether or not the player themself shows symptoms or tests negative initially.