School and child care screening
Are you:
- living in a highest risk congregate care setting (for example, a hospital school, an Education and Community Partnership Program) and/or
- immunocompromised (for this question, factors such as old age, diabetes and end-stage renal disease are generally not considered immunocompromised)
Examples of being immunocompromised include those:
- undergoing cancer chemotherapy
- with untreated HIV infection with CD4 T lymphocyte count less than 200
- with combined primary immunodeficiency disorder
- on prednisone medication - more than 20 mg per day (or equivalent) for more than 14 days
- on other immune suppressive medications