MCPS covid cases

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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.

Got the letter now. 24 cases today.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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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.

Got the letter now. 24 cases today.

That is a lot (unless you didn't have many yesterday). Which school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

[Anonymous]

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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.

If mcps holds to its policy of returning to virtual, it will put a break on burning thru, but without a firebreak, roughly speaking, assuming a doubling rate of every three days (which seems to be slower, perhaps than what the data indicates about the Omicron doubling rate), a school with 24 students sick (which is what my school had today only), would get to a total of 1512 cases on 5th double (which would be 15 days if doubling every 3 days). On the 6th double, there would be 1536 cases, bringing the total to 3048 cases - larger than most high schools.

Of course, that doesn’t account for the slowing of the doubling when so few uninfected students remain (assuming that once recovered from Omicron, one is immune - something we are not sure about).

This virus is moving so fast that, exponentially speaking, the numbers will be so big, that it is unsustainable for more than one or two months at the same high rate, maybe even less?

Of course, there are all kinds of variables - percent immunity in population, availability of testing and willingness to quarantine, distancing practices, masking, the effect of rotations in and out of school, and the broader community rate of cases, etc. Once the virus slows, it could still hang around at a lower level for awhile given how contagious it is.

Of course, What I write is only a very rough supposition based on the exponential math.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

[Anonymous]

No one has been immune to covid after infection yet.

On the other hand, plenty of people have had health problems after getting multiple cases of covid.

I think it's adorable you have such a rosy outlook that this time will be different. May your optimism continue, because I know the kidney failure, chronic fatigue, and diabetes would be hard to handle otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one has been immune to covid after infection yet.

On the other hand, plenty of people have had health problems after getting multiple cases of covid.

I think it's adorable you have such a rosy outlook that this time will be different. May your optimism continue, because I know the kidney failure, chronic fatigue, and diabetes would be hard to handle otherwise.

Do what now?!

Of course there is such a thing as immunity after infection. That's true for SARS-CoV-2 as for any other virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one has been immune to covid after infection yet.

On the other hand, plenty of people have had health problems after getting multiple cases of covid.

I think it's adorable you have such a rosy outlook that this time will be different. May your optimism continue, because I know the kidney failure, chronic fatigue, and diabetes would be hard to handle otherwise.

Do what now?!

Of course there is such a thing as immunity after infection. That's true for SARS-CoV-2 as for any other virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html

DP - the point is that it is short lived. There is no durable immunity, therefore getting infected doesn't help you much going forward, and can in fact harm you absent a subsequent vaccine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has been immune to covid after infection yet.

On the other hand, plenty of people have had health problems after getting multiple cases of covid.

I think it's adorable you have such a rosy outlook that this time will be different. May your optimism continue, because I know the kidney failure, chronic fatigue, and diabetes would be hard to handle otherwise.

Do what now?!

Of course there is such a thing as immunity after infection. That's true for SARS-CoV-2 as for any other virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html

DP - the point is that it is short lived. There is no durable immunity, therefore getting infected doesn't help you much going forward, and can in fact harm you absent a subsequent vaccine.

So? Even if that were true, 6 months of immunity gets us to June. And then, of course, there's the immunity from being infected AND being vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has been immune to covid after infection yet.

On the other hand, plenty of people have had health problems after getting multiple cases of covid.

I think it's adorable you have such a rosy outlook that this time will be different. May your optimism continue, because I know the kidney failure, chronic fatigue, and diabetes would be hard to handle otherwise.

Do what now?!

Of course there is such a thing as immunity after infection. That's true for SARS-CoV-2 as for any other virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html

DP - the point is that it is short lived. There is no durable immunity, therefore getting infected doesn't help you much going forward, and can in fact harm you absent a subsequent vaccine.

So? Even if that were true, 6 months of immunity gets us to June. And then, of course, there's the immunity from being infected AND being vaccinated.

True! By June you should have a handle on any long term effects, learned how to give your kid the insulin, etc. Then in June, when the virus that's been happily mutating all along reinfects your family, we will get to see what exciting new cell damage y'all get. Thanks for signing up for this medical experiment, PP. You really are doing your part to advance science.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

[Anonymous]

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True! By June you should have a handle on any long term effects, learned how to give your kid the insulin, etc. Then in June, when the virus that's been happily mutating all along reinfects your family, we will get to see what exciting new cell damage y'all get. Thanks for signing up for this medical experiment, PP. You really are doing your part to advance science.

My one kid is vaccinated. My other kid is vaccinated and boostered. I am vaccinated and boostered. And you are a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

This has happened to us, as well. MS. We contacted school. We were told that the rule is to be in close proximity with an infected person indoors without masks. But, I would think that lunch time should qualify for exposure. Weird that you have not been notified.

I honestly don't understand why anyone is eating with anyone. The best thing to do would be to have all the eating socially distanced and outside. Does that suck? Yes. So does infecting five friends and the cool teacher who let you eat in her classroom. The cool teacher invited my kid to eat with them too, because she felt sorry for her, and my kid explained that she eats in a corner of a hall near a supply closet ad far away from others as possible. Does this suck? Yes. I wish she could eat outside.

For MS and HS kids, lunch time is the only social time.

Then here is what you do. Eat in your isolated corner. Then put on your mask and go socialize. Shocking, how that's not complicated. It's also true that kids have access to a wealth of social media options they use for socializing. Unless you're concerned they're not having enough time to make out with each other, I don't see the issue.

I don't see the issue either. But we are not they.