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Re: Varicella - length of contagiousness

Public schools at least here in LA do not have a full time nurse. Most
have a nurse one day a week. I personally know of the largest elementary
magnet school where children have attended all year without providing
proof of immunization, children with fractures have been put on the bus
because parents refuse to pick up including one with a skull
fracture-dizzy,nauseous and incoherent who later deteriorated on the bus,
lice is ever present and children are without basis services. The schools
do not know who is immune suppressed nor even who is on chemo. I have
taken children to clinics myself who were trying to use binoculars to see
the blackboard and others who needed dental care.

In addition, some children do not feel up to attending when first
breaking out with varicella. Are these children to sit in the main office
all day? There is no other provision for sick children.
Eileen Duncan