Data today 7pm

[Anonymous]

Since I didn't see it linked, here are the school-by-school numbers for yesterday: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/Coronavirus/dashboaird/January%2014%20Daily%20Data.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

This should have been done by MCPS instead of trying to hide the accumulated infection rate in last 10 days.

100%

There's no excuse for the lack of transparency

There’s the rationale - MCPS doesn’t want transparency. The numbers will show a school system falling apart.

Why is the Board of Education so silent?

Falling apart? Stop the catastrophizing. It has been a normal two weeks at our elementary school minus some bus disruptions. Maybe we should send our daily counts of students infected with RSV, flu, or the common cold. Then se can start a whole thread about how the system is falling apart.

[Anonymous]

These numbers are very suspiciously low. The numbers listed for my school could represent just one of my classes, not the whole school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These numbers are very suspiciously low. The numbers listed for my school could represent just one of my classes, not the whole school.

They are only the numbers self-reported on the form by parents of new cases- it is not all the students who are infected or quarantining

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Disagree. Really appreciate that somebody is analyzing these data.

[Anonymous]

The charts include people who have already recovered and are back to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Disagree. Really appreciate that somebody is analyzing these data.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

You know that people can catch COVID more than once?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

It's safe to assume that 10% will spread it in school and we are mandating everyone to go to school in a small space. That means another 10% will catch. It will go on .... Other places are also spreading, but there is no state mandate forcing everyone to go to those places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

You know that people can catch COVID more than once?

Yes, I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is doing this independently! Check it ou

https://sites.google.com/view/mcpsactivecovidcases/home

Somebody with an agenda to close schools. The figures are constructed in a way to lead to certain conclusions. The fact X percent of students or staff have Covid is neither evidence of school spread or an indication that an individual school is in “chaos.” I’m sure it will stop being updated once cases decrease.

Strongly disagree here. I am for keeping the schools open but not showing accumulated 5-7 days of data is highly misleading. MCPS started with that and then dropped it. You can decide when to close or switch or not close or not switch ... all that, but be transparent about the data which can be seen by families.

Families can decide if they want to send their kids to school. My kids already have gotten covid so I am not worried, but it hardly means that we hide data and force families.

But what is it exactly that anyone can conclude from the data that is at all useful for making decisions? If 10% of the students in a school tested positive, I have no idea whether they caught it at school or the mall, and they are isolating at home.

For MCPS parents’ purposes, it doesn’t matter where they caught it. What matters is that statistically, 2-3 kids *in every class* have an active covid case. That makes it much more difficult to avoid catching covid than when 2-3 out of every hundred kids has an active case.

Isn't that why the COVID positive kids are isolating? I mean, I really just don't understand the fear of COVID in kids at this point. I'm not keeping my kid out of school and foregoing working to prevent a COVID infection. What is the endgame?