Screen Students For COVID Daily: Lower Merion School District

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA — With the school year underway, the Lower Merion School District is asking parents and guardians to screen students daily for coronavirus.

District families should follow step-by-step instructions to scree their student to decide whether they should go to school.

See the screening instructions online here.

Symptoms include fever, chills, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, sore throat, congestion, running nose, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, and new loss of taste and smell.

Students with these symptoms should be tested for the virus. If a student tests positive, their parent or guardian should call the school nurse or the COVID Healthline at 610-645-1973.

If a student's test comes back negative or they are given a different diagnosis, parents or guardians should wait 24 hours without fever and with improved respiratory symptoms before sending their student back to school.

Parents or guardian who are unsure whether their student has symptoms of coronavirus, the district's Health Services says to keep the child home and contact healthcare providers or the LMSD COVID Healthline at 610-645-1973.

"If everyone in the LMSD community uses the screening tool, wears masks and follows the other mitigation efforts, our students will have the best chance to safely stay in school for the year," the district said.