Elements of Routine Disease Response

The routine disease control model moves the school away from the case-investigation response model to one more typical for schools in responses to other communicable diseases. While the school will still track and monitor individual COVID-19 cases, the strategic focus will be responding to clusters or outbreaks of cases. In partnership with Ouray County Public Health, Ouray School will respond with additional mitigation strategies for an outbreak of five or more non-family cases identified in a 14 day period or a cluster of cases of three or more in a week within a single class group.

• CDPHE: Transitioning to a Routine Disease Control Model

Elements of the Routine Disease Control Model

Routine disease control measures include the following.

• Continue to encourage vaccination of staff and students;
• Isolation requirements for ill and COVID-positive staff and students;
• Recommend but not require masking at all grade levels;
• Continue with opt-in COVID screening;
• Track attendance and illness data to identify clusters and outbreaks; 
• Continue to report identified cases to public health; 
• Continue to require quarantining for family-related exposures; and
• Communicate with families about cluster and outbreak situations.

Routine disease control does not include the following, unless there is a cluster or outbreak.

• Individual case investigation and contact tracing;
• Quarantine of students and staff with school-related exposures.