2025/2026 Lutz Preparatory Covid Protocols Update
Lutz Preparatory continues to follow the CDC guidelines for Covid-19.
Please see your family physician and/or refer to the CDC’s most current guidelines (see below) to help reduce the spread of Covid-19. Any additional questions, please call the school.
Covid Guidelines 2025
COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses, including influenza and RSV.
Protective tools, like vaccination and treatment that decrease risks of COVID-19 disease are now widely available and resultantly, far fewer people are getting seriously ill from COVID-19. Complications like multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and Long COVID are now less common as well. Data indicate rates of hospitalizations and deaths are down substantially, and that clinically COVID-19 has become similar to, or even less severe in hospitalized people, than influenza and RSV.
These factors have enabled CDC to issue updated Respiratory Virus Guidance that provides the public with recommendations and information about effective steps and strategies tailored to the current level of risk posed by COVID-19 and other common respiratory viral illnesses.
Students can return to school if they have been fever-free for at least 24 hours after their symptoms have improved, regardless of a positive test. When they return to normal activities, the CDC recommends people use preventative strategies for the next five days. This includes limiting close contact with others, enhancing hygiene like hand-washing, improving ventilation, masking and testing as needed.
Lutz Preparatory School Wellness Pledge (excerpt from the 2025-26 LP Student Handbook)
