COVID Information (Updated 3/7/2022)

3/6/22

Face masks are strongly recommended but not required in class and outside. Masks are still required in the Nurse's Office and if you are a close contact of someone with COVID. 

2/18/22

Vaccinations are available Friday, February 18 from noon to 7 PM at Lincoln High School. Permission slips are in the Main Office. Boosters, second shots, and first shots are available for students, families, and staff. Boosters are due five months after the second shot. Students 5 and older are eligible for the vaccine. Students 12 and up are eligible for the booster. For any questions, contact Ms. Drew, at 323-441-4625 or email [email protected] or Rm 125

1/24/22

Dear Lincoln Families:

In an abundance of caution and in accordance with Los Angeles County Public Health (LACDPH) Guidelines, and due to an increase in positive cases throughout Los Angeles County during this Omicron surge, Lincoln High School is taking some added precautions at this time to treat all students and employees on campus as if they are a close contact.  

Our school is ensuring that all positive cases or individuals showing symptoms at Lincoln High School are isolated at home. Families can review daily case count updates for our school online at achieve.lausd.net/covidreportcard. 

Until further notice, families will not receive individual close contact notifications. Your child can continue attending school and participating in school activities including sports and before- and after-school programs as long as they do not have any symptoms. In case of possible exposure, we are asking all students and employees to take the following actions at all times to keep our community safe and prevent the spread of COVID-19:

• Mask at all times: All employees must wear surgical-type masks or higher-level PPE (e.g., KN95 or N95 respirator masks). Beginning the week of January 24th, and until further notice, students are required to wear well-fitting, non-cloth masks of multiple layers with a nose wire. Our school can provide your child with this type of mask if needed. Our school can provide your child with this type of mask if needed. Individuals must be masked at all times, including during sports and extracurricular activities, both indoors and outdoors. Eating and drinking should happen distanced from others. 

• Test weekly: All students and employees will continue to participate in weekly COVID-19 screening testing on our school’s regularly scheduled testing day with the mobile team. Students who have had a positive COVID-19 test in the past 90 days are exempt from testing. If your child does not participate in the mobile testing program on campus or is absent during our testing day, they must take and upload an external PCR or antigen test result via Daily Pass (dailypass.lausd.net) each week. If your child tests positive, they must isolate immediately and follow home isolation protocols.

• Monitor for symptoms: If your child is ill or develops symptoms of COVID-19, they must follow isolation protocols and test immediately, at an LAUSD drive-up symptomatic testing site --> GAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL (https://achieve.lausd.net/covidtestingappt) or by getting a PCR test with an external healthcare provider. 

If your child is absent due to COVID-19, your child may participate in a Short-Term Independent Study.  Please contact your school if you would like your student to participate.  Otherwise, your child will have an excused absence during this time and can make up missed schoolwork for full credit.

IF YOUR CHILD TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID - INSTRUCTIONS SEE BELOW

1. All individuals who test positive for COVID-19 must isolate at home for at least 5 days.
2. “Day 0” represents the date that the positive test was taken. “Day 1” represents the day after the positive test was taken. 
3. Individuals who test positive may be released from isolation on Day 6, provided any symptoms are improving, they are fever-free for the past 24 hours without fever-reducing medication, and they have a negative (antigen) test result from a test taken on or after Day 5. 
4. Individuals should test with an antigen test on or after Day 5, as PCR tests may continue to read positive even after an individual is no longer infectious
5. Between Day 5 and Day 10 of isolation, positive individuals may visit HILDA SOLIS LEARNING ACADEMY, appointments are not required. Rapid tests will only be distributed to LAUSD employees or students with a recent positive test result. Individuals are encouraged to bring proof of their recent positive test results to the testing site to receive a rapid antigen test. 
6. Individuals may also take any FDA-approved at-home antigen test.
7. All rapid antigen test results must be uploaded by the individual into the Daily Pass. (See Attachment D: Uploading External Test Results)

If you have questions or need support, please contact the school (323) 441-4601 or LAUSD’s Community Engagement team at (213) 725-5637.

Sincerely,

Rose Anne Ruiz, Principal