Big outbreak at Wakefield High School in Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused by the Qualtrics data - it shows Wakefield as having the highest number of Covid cases at 33, but only 1 close contact with all those cases? For example Washington Liberty has 23 cases and 126 close contacts. Does this make sense?

You are looking at the data from the very beginning, including last school year. Look at this school year.

Thank you. I just updated my dashboard so I am only looking at this school year. It now shows 29 positive case and no close contacts. I understand you are not a close contact if you are vaccinated or if you were wearing a mask. However, were there really no students who were not vaccinated, who did not have lunch with a student who tested positive?

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I don't know but we're at a different high school and learned there's basically no contact tracing from contacts at lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:Two other discussions of this wasn’t enough for you OP? We get it, you want schools shut down again.

Weird that people can't deal with reports of actual cases and when someone bring up reality they just accuse them of wanting to shut down schools.

Actually I do not want school shut down which is why I'd like to know what's being done at WHS.

Denial and refusal to take action could shut school down though.

+1 I also would like to know the nexus and how the spread then occurred. I also want to know what is being done to mitigate and contain it. If these students were athletes then they were (supposed to be) vaccinated. 26 breakthrough cases is A LOT plus 3 teachers who also were (supposed to be) vaccinated. This is scary. We need transparency.

Athletes aren’t mandated to be vaccinated until 11/8. If they want to play w/o masks they get tested every day. There were a couple of unvaxxed kids on the FB team and SPECULATION is that is how some kids got it.

However it is good news that the other players were getting tested every day, so it could be limited, and a game was cancelled out of caution. I think it is a win for the process.

It makes sense that a lot of positives are being caught through daily testing bog athletes, but we’re two weeks in to weekly voluntary testing at other schools and none of the elementary and Junior high schools are finding “hidden” outbreaks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused by the Qualtrics data - it shows Wakefield as having the highest number of Covid cases at 33, but only 1 close contact with all those cases? For example Washington Liberty has 23 cases and 126 close contacts. Does this make sense?

You are looking at the data from the very beginning, including last school year. Look at this school year.

Thank you. I just updated my dashboard so I am only looking at this school year. It now shows 29 positive case and no close contacts. I understand you are not a close contact if you are vaccinated or if you were wearing a mask. However, were there really no students who were not vaccinated, who did not have lunch with a student who tested positive?

88% of kids 12-19 in Arlington are vaccinated, so it is certainly possible.

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For athletes, the info is confusing bc it says the vaccine is
mandated but at the same time says well if an athlete isn’t vaccinated then they have to test every day.

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Anonymous wrote:For athletes, the info is confusing bc it says the vaccine is
mandated but at the same time says well if an athlete isn’t vaccinated then they have to test every day.

To my understanding the testing is related to wearing a mask. If you are tested daily you don’t have to wear a mask to play. The vaccine mandate is a separate issue.

I believe the testing will continue to allow for no masks even after the vaccine mandate takes effect on 11/8.

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ArlNow reports 34 positive cases with the lacrosse team as the epicenter.

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/10/13/series-of-covid-cases-reported-at-wakefield-high-school/?fbclid=IwAR3LcF1Cs8T9ApZnRb3F0b7DUIPUl8p0Ay_g_BLXB4EzcZ4-GTJY9A2fivY

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Weird that Frank Bellavia said there are 16 cases. That's not true.

Anyone can pull up the dashboard and see there are twice that many.

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2 new cases today, 3 new cases yesterday. I really hope they get this under control.

What are they doing to contain it???? Anything?

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that Frank Bellavia said there are 16 cases. That's not true.

Anyone can pull up the dashboard and see there are twice that many.

The key word there is “outbreak,” which he what he was asked about. You can have multiple cases in a single setting but if there is no evidence it would as spread in the setting (e.g., you can confirm certain students most likely caught it elsewhere, and others who tested positive were never in each others’ presence at school), then it is not technically an outbreak. But if there ate 16 cases within a single team, there is good reason to believe there has been spread in the school-based setting within the team, so those particular cases constitute an outbreak. But that still doesn’t mean all others cases at the school that have zero connection to those team members are included in the outbreak count.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that Frank Bellavia said there are 16 cases. That's not true.

Anyone can pull up the dashboard and see there are twice that many.

The lacrosse team hasn’t even started conditioning days yet, so if its focused on the team it must be just friends from the team, not because of the team.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird that Frank Bellavia said there are 16 cases. That's not true.

Anyone can pull up the dashboard and see there are twice that many.

The lacrosse team hasn’t even started conditioning days yet, so if its focused on the team it must be just friends from the team, not because of the team.

ArlNow has changed their reporting. Originally they had a tipster who said it was connected to the lacrosse team, but apparently they got other tipsters after that telling them it was related to other sports. People elsewhere (including here) have claimed it was tied to the football team.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird that Frank Bellavia said there are 16 cases. That's not true.

Anyone can pull up the dashboard and see there are twice that many.

The lacrosse team hasn’t even started conditioning days yet, so if its focused on the team it must be just friends from the team, not because of the team.

ArlNow has changed their reporting. Originally they had a tipster who said it was connected to the lacrosse team, but apparently they got other tipsters after that telling them it was related to other sports. People elsewhere (including here) have claimed it was tied to the football team.

Interesting. I heard football too but it wasn't firsthand.

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Anonymous wrote:ArlNow reports 34 positive cases with the lacrosse team as the epicenter.

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/10/13/series-of-covid-cases-reported-at-wakefield-high-school/?fbclid=IwAR3LcF1Cs8T9ApZnRb3F0b7DUIPUl8p0Ay_g_BLXB4EzcZ4-GTJY9A2fivY

Lacrosse is a spring sport.

That's strange.

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Anonymous wrote:ArlNow reports 34 positive cases with the lacrosse team as the epicenter.

https://www.arlnow.com/2021/10/13/series-of-covid-cases-reported-at-wakefield-high-school/?fbclid=IwAR3LcF1Cs8T9ApZnRb3F0b7DUIPUl8p0Ay_g_BLXB4EzcZ4-GTJY9A2fivY

Lacrosse is a spring sport.

That's strange.

So basically all the speculating based on rumors isn’t true. Shocking!!