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a ora <br />Town of Reading 'RIVE'IVED <br />' Meeting Minutes TOWN CLERK <br />READING, MA. <br />w"ax�onvv°v <br />21121 OCT 12 AM 8; 58 <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Board of Health <br />Date: 2021-08-19 Time: 7:00 PM <br />Building: Location: <br />Address: Session: Open Session <br />Purpose: Open Session - Remote Meeting Version: Final <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Chair Richard Lopez, Vice Chair Kerry Dunnell, Paula Curren; Associate <br />Members: Gen Cramer, Kevin Sexton <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Assistant Town Manager Jean Delos, Interim Health Director Peter Mirandi, <br />Public Health Nurse Shuang Shen, Public Health Nurse Kristine Harris, <br />Director of School Nursing Mary Giuliana, Carlo Bacci <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Jacquelyn LaVerde <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />This meeting was held remotely via Zoom. <br />Chair Richard Lopez called the meeting to order at 7:01 pm and reviewed the evening's <br />agenda. <br />There was no comment from the public <br />Update on Role of School Nurses with respect to COVID: <br />RMHS Director of Nursing, Mary Giuliana, explained the collaboration between the School <br />Nurses and Town nurses for COVID. When positive cases come in, they are given a number <br />in MAVEN and the Public Health Nurse follows up for contact tracing. When cases are found <br />in the schools, the school nurses are the first to know, and they perform data collection and <br />contact tracing in those cases, then notify the Public Health Nurse for follow up. Killam <br />School Nurse Sharon Grottkau assisted with contact tracing for the Town on Saturdays. <br />School nurses are well -versed in DPH guidelines and capable of doing contact tracing. <br />For pool testing in schools last year, DESE provided support with some medical assistants, <br />but each school's nurse would coordinate testing in their building. However, DESE staff is <br />not available after school, so a lot of after school testing with athletics and preschool was <br />done by school staff. When there was a positive pool in the spring, follow up testing and <br />contact tracing would fall on staff. <br />This year, DESE has said that they can do follow up in the lab and students in Kindergarten <br />and up can swab themselves. There are two other types of testing that can be utilized this <br />year. One is a symptomatic test with Bynex, which is a rapid antigen test. The other is test <br />and stay, when there is a positive case in school, those close contacts would be able to <br />Page I r <br />