COVID

  • COVID-19 Symptoms

    • Fever or chills

    • Cough

    • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

    • Fatigue

    • Muscle or body aches

    • Headache

    • New loss of taste or smell

    • Sore throat

    • Congestion or runny nose

    • Nausea or vomiting

    • Diarrhea

If you have symptoms, take standard respiratory virus precautions:

Stay home and away from others until, for 24 hours, both are true:

  • Your symptoms are getting better overall, and

  • You have not had a fever and are not using fever-reducing medication.

When you return to normal activities, the CDC recommends that for five days you take additional precautions.

Please follow these precautions whenever you have a respiratory illness:

Timeline

BPSD Final Procedures
ESSER Funds Narrative
Return to Learn Plan
Use of ARP ESSER III Funds

Optional COVID Tests

Rapid Self-Tests are available for purchase at pharmacies.

If you do a rapid antigen test, false positives are quite rare, so a positive result is considered confirmation you have COVID-19. But a negative result from an antigen test is false about half the time. As of early 2024, people were sometimes not testing positive on a rapid test until the third, fourth, or fifth day of symptoms.

PCR Tests

  • Contact your family doctor. 

  • Testing may be available at CVS and Walgreens or various clinics.

  • Free PCR tests are provided by the Washington County Health Department at 5121 Jacquelyn Lane; use their online portal or call 918-335-3005.

Insurance coverage of COVID testing is no longer guaranteed; contact your insurer for details. FYI, HealthChoice covers 80% of testing, after you meet your deductible, if it is completed at a Network office or facility.

Optional Vaccinations

Both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are now available for those ages 6 months and up and are available at local pharmacies. 

Please note that the district does not expect students or parents to solicit medical advice from Bartlesville Public Schools personnel; they should consult trusted health care providers.

Public Comment

Opportunities for public comment are available at monthly school board meetings. In addition, the public is invited to email any comments/suggestions regarding the Safe Return to Learn Plan and Use of ARP ESSER III Funds Plan to CurtisSA@bps-ok.org.