APS COVID Tests for Spring Break - What percentage do you estimate are going straight in the trash?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

18-19% of APS families were crazy enough to sign up for surveillance testing too (with the risk of false positives, are just backdoor school closures - no other place in society has such surveillance testing, but kids have to bear the burden if their parents are crazy enough to sign them up).

Yeah, this isn't that. The surveillance testing is done during school hours, at school. We signed up for this actually but nobody is doing the routine weekly testing during break. These positive covid tests are being reported in from at home covid testing, or maybe if you take your kid in to Kenmore or something (is that even open?).

The surveillance testing has been helpful for us fwiw. Haven't tested positive yet but the negative results were reassuring when friends were getting covid. Masking works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

18-19% of APS families were crazy enough to sign up for surveillance testing too (with the risk of false positives, are just backdoor school closures - no other place in society has such surveillance testing, but kids have to bear the burden if their parents are crazy enough to sign them up).

Yeah, this isn't that. The surveillance testing is done during school hours, at school. We signed up for this actually but nobody is doing the routine weekly testing during break. These positive covid tests are being reported in from at home covid testing, or maybe if you take your kid in to Kenmore or something (is that even open?).

The surveillance testing has been helpful for us fwiw. Haven't tested positive yet but the negative results were reassuring when friends were getting covid. Masking works.

The same tiny 18-19% who do surveillance testing are the same using these tests.

[Anonymous]

I am not an extreme parent at all and we opted in for surveillance testing - all 3 times. We think it is the responsible, kind thing to do. My kid doesn’t wear a mask at school and we just flew cross country for spring break where we ate indoors on several occasions.

We kept the test and will use it if someone in the family gets symptoms. My preschooler has “test to stay” for exposure and we go through a lot of tests so I’m happy to take the free one.

Why throw out a test? Why not just put it in a drawer in case you need it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

18-19% of APS families were crazy enough to sign up for surveillance testing too (with the risk of false positives, are just backdoor school closures - no other place in society has such surveillance testing, but kids have to bear the burden if their parents are crazy enough to sign them up).

My elementary student had been in surveillance testing all year as our my friends’ kids at several other APS schools. I have yet to hear of a single false positive. Please name the school if you know of an actual instance of a false positive .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

Great, glad to see it's working and that families are being responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

18-19% of APS families were crazy enough to sign up for surveillance testing too (with the risk of false positives, are just backdoor school closures - no other place in society has such surveillance testing, but kids have to bear the burden if their parents are crazy enough to sign them up).

Yeah, this isn't that. The surveillance testing is done during school hours, at school. We signed up for this actually but nobody is doing the routine weekly testing during break. These positive covid tests are being reported in from at home covid testing, or maybe if you take your kid in to Kenmore or something (is that even open?).

The surveillance testing has been helpful for us fwiw. Haven't tested positive yet but the negative results were reassuring when friends were getting covid. Masking works.

The same tiny 18-19% who do surveillance testing are the same using these tests.

Yup. My kids who just flew cross-county will attend APS schools tomorrow without testing and without masks like the majority of the country. Traveling has taught us that Arlington has been way out of line regarding COVID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

30+ now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

30+ now

Most people don’t care! 30+ is 1% of students and staff.

[Anonymous]

150 by end of the week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:150 by end of the week.

Oh, fun. Are we doing over/under bets on this baseless estimate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

30+ now

Most people don’t care! 30+ is 1% of students and staff.

APS has almost 27,000 students. It’s not even close to 1 percent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

18-19% of APS families were crazy enough to sign up for surveillance testing too (with the risk of false positives, are just backdoor school closures - no other place in society has such surveillance testing, but kids have to bear the burden if their parents are crazy enough to sign them up).

Yeah, this isn't that. The surveillance testing is done during school hours, at school. We signed up for this actually but nobody is doing the routine weekly testing during break. These positive covid tests are being reported in from at home covid testing, or maybe if you take your kid in to Kenmore or something (is that even open?).

The surveillance testing has been helpful for us fwiw. Haven't tested positive yet but the negative results were reassuring when friends were getting covid. Masking works.

The same tiny 18-19% who do surveillance testing are the same using these tests.

Yup. My kids who just flew cross-county will attend APS schools tomorrow without testing and without masks like the majority of the country. Traveling has taught us that Arlington has been way out of line regarding COVID.

I agree traveling is eye opening. These remaining strong blue clusters are just really outliers. But it’s changing. I was in Target tonight and it was about 50/50 masked.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t sign my kids up for surveillance testing, but we did us the tests before returning to school, because we traveled & all have allergy symptoms this time of year… wanted to rule out COVID.

[Anonymous]

APE parents can’t be burdened with their kids home for one more second. They aren’t testing because they don’t want to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually it looks like quite a few people ARE using these tests. There are 23 cases of covid reported to the dashboard today so far, whereas before it was just a case or two each day over spring break. Yay, APS families -- don't send your sick kid into school!

30+ now

Most people don’t care! 30+ is 1% of students and staff.

APS has almost 27,000 students. It’s not even close to 1 percent.

Correct! Should have said ~0.1% (assuming with staff APS is over 30K) Roughly one case per school.