COVID-19 Information
DASHBOARD
CURRENT STATUS
The MD Dashboard serves to be a transparent communication tool to our Mater Dei community.
At MDHS the Health & Safety protocols have several mitigation strategies to limit exposure risk to students as outlined below:
- All students and adults are required to wear a mask while in classrooms or office areas with one or more persons present.
- Hand hygiene is reinforced in classrooms and across the campus
- Due to the recent increase in cases, masks are not required but recommended while outside on the MD campus.
- Implementing minimum day schedule during times of increased cases.
MDHS continues to follow guidelines from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA). and the directives of the Superintendent of Catholic Schools, Diocese of Orange in all COVID related Health and Safety measures.
QUARANTINE AND ISOLATION GUIDANCE
COVID-19 SYMPTOMS
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• New loss of taste or smell
• Cough
Low Risk
• Fever or chills
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body aches
• Headache
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea
COVID RELATED ABSENCES
Covid related absences will be excused through the attendance office. A doctor’s note is not required for exposures, quarantine or positive cases.
Please call attendance:
To report a student’s absence due to quarantine – it is not necessary to call in each day.
Please contact the health office:
To report a positive Covid case use the Covid Positive Reporting Form below.
COVID-19 POSITIVE CASE REPORTING
If you test positive for COVID-19 and have been associated with the Mater Dei High School campus, students or employees, please notify the health office using the Covid Positive Reporting Form. The health office will provide guidance so that you can safely return to campus.
• Complete this form if your student tests positive for COVID
• This form is not to be used for exposures or quarantine
• Submit one form for each student
• If there is a required answer and it does not pertain to you, please write N/A
• Your information will be kept confidential
• Complete this form if your student tests positive for COVID
• This form is not to be used for exposures or quarantine
• Submit one form for each student
• If there is a required answer and it does not pertain to you, please write N/A
• Your information will be kept confidential
After submitting the Covid Positive Report you will receive direction with return to learn date options.
- You May return after a full 10-day quarantine
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- No testing required
- Students are eligible for a shortened 5-day quarantine with a return on day 6 if you meet all requirements outlined below:
- You must have improved symptoms AND
- be fever-free for the last 24 hours without the help of medicine AND
- wear a mask indoors/outdoors for 5 more days AND
- have a negative covid test (antigen test recommended, home tests accepted)
- Submit a photo of the negative test result via text or email on or after 5 days of the first date of symptoms or the date of your positive test
- Label the test with the date and student’s first and last legal names
- Results may be emailed to: ccalderon@materdei.org AND aboyles@materdei.org OR texted to: 714-955-3019
- Please wait until the health office has cleared you via email/text message confirmation prior to returning to campus
*Please note: a faint line is a POSITIVE test result, and you will not be cleared to return until you test negative (no trace of a line)
*If your child participates in a CIF sport and was symptomatic, they must by cleared by a physician and complete the Return-to-Play protocol before returning to their sport. You will receive the forms from our athletic training office.
Thank you for helping to keep our Mater Dei community safe.
COVID-19 EXPOSURE REPORTING
If you were identified as a close contact or exposed to someone that tested positive for Covid please complete the following form. Please note if you are fully vaccinated and do not have symptoms you are not required to quarantine.
ATHLETICS
Athletes are required to be cleared by their doctor to begin the return to play (RTP) protocol so that they can safely return to their sport.
COVID TESTING
Because of the limited testing available to the public, home testing is now being accepted.
Testing Options:
• PCR tests work by directly detecting the viral genetic material (RNA)
• Antigen tests work by detecting specific proteins on the surface of the virus
• PCR tests work by directly detecting the viral genetic material (RNA)
• Antigen tests work by detecting specific proteins on the surface of the virus
HEALTH RESOURCES
For the latest information, please visit the OC Health Care Agency’s COVID website
Managing Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19 at School
COMMUNICATION
Guidelines for 2021-2022 School Year
Update from Department of Catholic Schools - 11/8/2021
CONTACT US
Health office phone number: 714-850-9520