MCPS covid cases

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened? A few days ago they were just discovering omicron in some states

https://www.cnet.com/health/covid-19-omicron-faq-cases-doubling-nfl-postponement-its-going-to-take-over-fauci-says/

now it makes up 73% of all new cases

https://apnews.com/article/omicron-majority-us-cases-833001ef99862bd6ac17935f65c896cf

are we this bad at tracking it???

Yes. We’ve been doing far less sequencing that most European countries, or places like Israel and South Africa. I think we’ve stepped it up in recent weeks, but having stuff decentralized means many states don’t have the resources to sustain that pace.

Well, the next variant will be PI. It is going to be even more transmissible. When will this end?

It has to end by Omega, right?

This comment absolutely made my day. Thank you, PP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened? A few days ago they were just discovering omicron in some states

https://www.cnet.com/health/covid-19-omicron-faq-cases-doubling-nfl-postponement-its-going-to-take-over-fauci-says/

now it makes up 73% of all new cases

https://apnews.com/article/omicron-majority-us-cases-833001ef99862bd6ac17935f65c896cf

are we this bad at tracking it???

Yes. We’ve been doing far less sequencing that most European countries, or places like Israel and South Africa. I think we’ve stepped it up in recent weeks, but having stuff decentralized means many states don’t have the resources to sustain that pace.

Well, the next variant will be PI. It is going to be even more transmissible. When will this end?

It has to end by Omega, right?

Yeah. Unfortunately, the world is a boring place. We will have omega 1, omega 2, ...

This comment absolutely made my day. Thank you, PP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not saying we shouldn't try the school by school approach, just be prepared that it isn't going to work AT ALL so you aren't suprised.

Don’t be surprised that Omicron burns through exceedingly fast and it works really well.

How fast do you think omicron will "burn through" a local school community?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not saying we shouldn't try the school by school approach, just be prepared that it isn't going to work AT ALL so you aren't suprised.

Don’t be surprised that Omicron burns through exceedingly fast and it works really well.

How fast do you think omicron will "burn through" a local school community?

The way it goes it probably will burn through MCPS in a month or so after the winter break.

[Anonymous]

ZERO new cases at DC's school today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ZERO new cases at DC's school today.

Our ES has had very few cases, but DC's teacher says she's sending the kids home with some of their workbooks over break "just in case" and was told by the county to do so.

Hopefully it really is "just in case" and not because yesterday's announcement was a complete lie.

[Anonymous]

We didn't get any letters yesterday or today but I know of two families who have kids home with Covid. Did they just not report? Seems like they would report! Are schools behind on letters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn't get any letters yesterday or today but I know of two families who have kids home with Covid. Did they just not report? Seems like they would report! Are schools behind on letters?

a conspiracy to keep schools open by underreporting the cases!!!

[Anonymous]

Walter Johnson high school -
Last Friday: 14
This Monday: 26
Today Tuesday: 6

I think practically nobody came...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walter Johnson high school -
Last Friday: 14
This Monday: 26
Today Tuesday: 6

I think practically nobody came...

Monday's numbers were from weekend testing of students who were quarantined the previous week. Tuesday's numbers are remaining test results from Friday/Monday close contacts.

I wonder if they will continue any of the reporting after tomorrow (Wednesday) because no one will be in schools for 11 days.

[Anonymous]

Poolesville was 5 cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn't get any letters yesterday or today but I know of two families who have kids home with Covid. Did they just not report? Seems like they would report! Are schools behind on letters?

We were told that letters don’t go out until the contact tracing has been completed and close contacts notified.

[Anonymous]

I think the contract tracing is a joke. A kid my kid eats lunch with everyday has COVID and we received no notification through contract tracing. The kid did tell my kid directly, which is how we know. They eat indoors everyday in a classroom with a teacher.....so apparently none of the contract tracers interviewed either the kid who is positive or the teacher? I'm a little unclear how they are doing contract tracing if they don't speak to anyone about whether there was unmasked exposure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ZERO new cases at DC's school today.

Lucky you (or maybe you didn't get the letter yet). We had several at the ES level, 5 at the MS, and 9 at the HS for our kids. Just today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened? A few days ago they were just discovering omicron in some states

https://www.cnet.com/health/covid-19-omicron-faq-cases-doubling-nfl-postponement-its-going-to-take-over-fauci-says/

now it makes up 73% of all new cases

https://apnews.com/article/omicron-majority-us-cases-833001ef99862bd6ac17935f65c896cf

are we this bad at tracking it???

Yes. We’ve been doing far less sequencing that most European countries, or places like Israel and South Africa. I think we’ve stepped it up in recent weeks, but having stuff decentralized means many states don’t have the resources to sustain that pace.

Well, the next variant will be PI. It is going to be even more transmissible. When will this end?

It has to end by Omega, right?

This comment absolutely made my day. Thank you, PP!

Oh yeah, it ends with Omega all right....but not in a good way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Man