As of yesterday, Grafton county (~90,000 people) has 10 identified active cases of COVID-19. Lyme has 1-4 active cases, Hanover has 1-4 active cases, and Lebanon has zero active cases.
It was nice seeing many of you at last week’s PA roundtable zoom meeting. The two health updates shared at the PA meeting were: 1. Crossroads administration will notify all families if someone tests positive and was in any school building during their infectious period. And 2. The Crossroads health office CMS-116 application has been approved. We have a CILA Certificate of Waiver and we have an assigned CILA ID number. Basically, this means the Crossroads health office is set up to procure an Abbott BinaxNow COVID-19 Antigen test when it becomes available to schools.
During the PA roundtable zoom, there were discussions on how to build community with our new families while protecting health and adhering to public health guidelines. A lot of good distanced zoom ideas were presented as well as some in-person outdoor, masked, and physically-distanced ideas. We took your hike proposal and an earlier playground proposal to NH DHHS (epidemiology state physicians), and together we weighed the pros and cons. Taking their input, our Task Force decided we want to minimize mixing our students with outside members (siblings, parents, guardians, nannies, etc) to the extent possible; therefore, we do not want school-affiliated or school-sponsored class gatherings that bring members from outside the classroom physically together. This is a bummer, but it is the reality during this pandemic if we want to better our chances of keeping our community well and our school open to in-person operations. We hope the PA will continue their quest of community warmth and inclusiveness in a physically-distanced way. It is a worthy cause even more so during this time – please continue to try to bring your class families (physically-distanced) together.
