Sacramento Families Scramble to Find COVID Tests Before Students Go Back to Class

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The nighttime earlier students successful the Sacramento City Unified School District went backmost to school, galore parents rushed to get their kids tested.

The unreserved to find a COVID-19 trial oregon investigating tract comes aft the holidays, erstwhile galore families gathered and the hazard of vulnerability to the virus, including the highly contagious omicron variant, increased.

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SCUSD received 38,000 at-home COVID-19 trial kits from the California Department of Public Health to administer to students and unit the week of December 13th. The kits went location connected Thursday and Friday of that week and included instructions connected however to usage the kits. Each contained 2 COVID-19 tests that were meant to beryllium taken connected December 2nd and January 1st.

Some families did not person an at-home trial done their schoolhouse and spent Sunday going to investigating sites listed connected SCUSD’s website and included successful a back-to-school message, besides sent Sunday.

Parents came to Albert Einstein Middle School, 1 of the SCUSD’s centrally-located investigating sites, to spot if they could find a trial for their student. The connection lone included the clip astatine which the determination would beryllium open, and not the day, which the SCUSD’s website lists arsenic Monday-Friday.

“[We privation a] small spot much absorption connected what to bash and what they privation to spot happen, if you’re going to nonstop retired a substance to the full territory marque definite it’s correct,” said Joseph, a SCUSD parent.

Across town, different household was prepped to spell backmost to schoolhouse astatine Kit Carson International Academy and Caleb Greenwood. Negative tests passim the wintertime break, and the nighttime earlier they were acceptable to spell backmost to school, offered a portion of mind.

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“I thought you cognize what, let’s conscionable beryllium safe, support connected apical of it, and marque definite that we’re antagonistic earlier we spell back,” said Kara Synhorst, a parent of 2 and a teacher astatine Luther Burbank High School successful Sacramento.

Synhorst said she worries astir the dispersed of COVID from each angles, a genitor and a teacher but besides wishes determination was much absorption from SCUSD leaders.

“In presumption of like, nonstop guidance, reaching retired to teachers, I don’t deliberation there’s been arsenic overmuch of that to marque america consciousness comfortable,” said Synhorst.

A SCUSD spokesperson said much at-home trial kits are expected this week, provided done the Sacramento County Office of Education.

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Testing volition continue astatine each schoolhouse sites and astatine SCUSD cardinal locations including the Serna Center from 12-3:30 p.m. and Albert Einstein Middle School from 3-6:30 p.m. Surveillance investigating resumes Monday and each time this week.

Madisen Keavy