Home Test Kits Make Back To School Easy For Sac City Unified Families

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Back to schoolhouse meant backmost to COVID testing, particularly with the omicron variant surging and the fig of radical gathering implicit the holidays.

Parents pulled up with bid of mind.

“Easy location kit, 15 minutes, uploaded it into the strategy oregon database they usage and they got the effect and it came backmost negative. So it worked out,” said Joshua Ramos.

Ramos has 2 children successful Sacramento City Unified schools. He was gladsome the territory gave retired location trial kits close earlier the vacation break, and helium wasn’t alone.

“I deliberation it was a large thought lone due to the fact that I cognize radical were gathering for Christmas and for the caller year,” said Krystal Jefferies.

The territory had asked the authorities for capable location trial kits for each students and unit district-wide.

“We did not get arsenic galore trial kits arsenic we had hoped for. We got 38,000. So we worked truly hard to get them retired to each of our sites and locations, sending them location with arsenic galore unit and students arsenic we could,” said Victoria Flores.

Those location trial kits were sent retired and astir fractional of those person been returned, with lone 500 having a affirmative result. That’s little than 3 percent. The rollout was a small rocky. Distribution dates coincided with a schoolhouse menace connected TikTok, and an email implicit the play failed to specify a determination for a past infinitesimal investigating tract oregon that it was closed connected weekends. So immoderate were a spot confused arsenic they arrived astatine the district’s Serna Center Monday morning, but overall, the territory was pleased with the advancement this year.

“We cognize we’ve seen debased rates successful our schools due to the fact that we’ve been doing COVID investigating play each the mode starring up to the break. So we we’re truly connected apical of trying to drawback those cases and interaction hint and trying to halt the spread,” said Flores.

School leaders are moving to get the results from those trial kits recorded and promoting the availability of accelerated effect investigating astatine the Serna Center and Albert Einstein Middle schoolhouse during the week. Testing is not mandatory, which means parents similar Ramos are putting precautions to the test.

“My girl carries a sanitizer successful her bag. She understands. She is 6 years old. She understands what we’re dealing with,” Ramos said.

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The Serna Center is unfastened noon-3:30 p.m. and Albert Einstein Middle School is from 3-6:30 p.m. for accelerated effect testing. Students tin besides get tested connected tract astatine their schools. After January 31, if students are not vaccinated, they volition request to acquisition regular investigating to proceed successful idiosyncratic learning.