13 COVID cases in one day at Janney??

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Agree. The HVAC at our school is broken. Classrooms are closed and we have classes where everyone is a close contact now joining classrooms where we hadn't previously had outbreaks. For at least two of the teachers, this is the first time catching COVID so it seems much more likely that being packed in a crowded classroom without HVAC with at least a few covid cases is how it caught up with them...not that they've suddenly started partying it up on the weekends.
My kids have brought it home twice now. And yes-I know that because I know my life.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Of course it is spreading at schools, just not exclusively from kids to adults. In your situation, it is also possible that one of the adults brought it in and gave it to the others, since they were working with each other, not just with kids. And no, I am not saying it never spreads from kids to adults, but the reality is that there is a lot of Covid in the community, and you tend to jump to conclusions when you really don't know who was the index cases and who gave it to whom.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Of course it is spreading at schools, just not exclusively from kids to adults. In your situation, it is also possible that one of the adults brought it in and gave it to the others, since they were working with each other, not just with kids. And no, I am not saying it never spreads from kids to adults, but the reality is that there is a lot of Covid in the community, and you tend to jump to conclusions when you really don't know who was the index cases and who gave it to whom.

Right, I mean I think at this point its only a problem because we are missing so many staff members. It reminds me a lot of the period right before winter break when we barely had enough people to safely run a school

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Of course it is spreading at schools, just not exclusively from kids to adults. In your situation, it is also possible that one of the adults brought it in and gave it to the others, since they were working with each other, not just with kids. And no, I am not saying it never spreads from kids to adults, but the reality is that there is a lot of Covid in the community, and you tend to jump to conclusions when you really don't know who was the index cases and who gave it to whom.

Right, I mean I think at this point its only a problem because we are missing so many staff members. It reminds me a lot of the period right before winter break when we barely had enough people to safely run a school

Agreed, but my broader point is that mitigations at school might not substantially improve the situation, because many of those cases that pop up in various classrooms, and many of the staff infections (your musical situation notwithstanding), don't originate at school.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Of course it is spreading at schools, just not exclusively from kids to adults. In your situation, it is also possible that one of the adults brought it in and gave it to the others, since they were working with each other, not just with kids. And no, I am not saying it never spreads from kids to adults, but the reality is that there is a lot of Covid in the community, and you tend to jump to conclusions when you really don't know who was the index cases and who gave it to whom.

Right, I mean I think at this point its only a problem because we are missing so many staff members. It reminds me a lot of the period right before winter break when we barely had enough people to safely run a school

Agreed, but my broader point is that mitigations at school might not substantially improve the situation, because many of those cases that pop up in various classrooms, and many of the staff infections (your musical situation notwithstanding), don't originate at school.

And, of course, because "mitigations" don't tend to work.

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Of course it is spreading at schools, just not exclusively from kids to adults. In your situation, it is also possible that one of the adults brought it in and gave it to the others, since they were working with each other, not just with kids. And no, I am not saying it never spreads from kids to adults, but the reality is that there is a lot of Covid in the community, and you tend to jump to conclusions when you really don't know who was the index cases and who gave it to whom.

Right, I mean I think at this point its only a problem because we are missing so many staff members. It reminds me a lot of the period right before winter break when we barely had enough people to safely run a school

Agreed, but my broader point is that mitigations at school might not substantially improve the situation, because many of those cases that pop up in various classrooms, and many of the staff infections (your musical situation notwithstanding), don't originate at school.

Ha, well then I think we just generally agree - boring end to the discussion. I do hope this leads to some sort of more reasonable quarantine policy next year because there's no end in sight for people being infected

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Anonymous wrote:So what 1.5% of the school? What’s the big hoopla about?

If it was just kids, it might not be such an issue but it's teachers and staff. Schools across the city have tons of teachers out. In some schools you have almost the entire grade level without a teacher right now. DCPS has a backlog for background checks so substitute teachers are in short supply.

My fear is we're going to see another call for 'volunteers' from the Wilson building to come take care of our kids if we don't get HVACs, background checks, staffing resolved. Covid coordinators were a great concept but they never happened. Having a nurse in every school would also go along way in helping these issues. But instead of more, the Mayor's budget is giving us less and less.

I don't want to go back to masking all the time but I also don't want an unvetted volunteer from central office babysitting my kid when I can't even get cleared to volunteer to be in the classroom.

Again, the assumption that teachers and staff are catching it in the classroom... Not saying that never happens, but I think it is more likely they often are among the people who are bringing it into the school, just like in the case of the kids.

Our school musical knocked out at least 4 teachers who were organizing the show - not sure how many kids it will end up impacting, as we just found out about exposures today

What does "knocked out" mean in this context? You are saying that 4 teachers were exposed?

They probably tested positive in the aftermath. Which doesn't mean they caught it while interacting with kids.

Correct, they tested positive. I think its safe to assume that these four people who don't live together or interact outside of work, got it during their time working with kids. I guess you can doubt that it happened around children if it makes you feel better?

I'm not particularly concerned if I catch it from school at this point as its already happened once; to pretend that it isn't still spreading at schools though is some mental gymnastics I'm not capable of doing.

Of course it is spreading at schools, just not exclusively from kids to adults. In your situation, it is also possible that one of the adults brought it in and gave it to the others, since they were working with each other, not just with kids. And no, I am not saying it never spreads from kids to adults, but the reality is that there is a lot of Covid in the community, and you tend to jump to conclusions when you really don't know who was the index cases and who gave it to whom.

Right, I mean I think at this point its only a problem because we are missing so many staff members. It reminds me a lot of the period right before winter break when we barely had enough people to safely run a school

Agreed, but my broader point is that mitigations at school might not substantially improve the situation, because many of those cases that pop up in various classrooms, and many of the staff infections (your musical situation notwithstanding), don't originate at school.

Ha, well then I think we just generally agree - boring end to the discussion. I do hope this leads to some sort of more reasonable quarantine policy next year because there's no end in sight for people being infected

Yes, completely agree. And stop testing asymptomatic people, kids and adults. I hope the money for that dries up.

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about - would love to see your citations on one in five adults suffering from long term conditions.

Covid has been everywhere for two months now at Janney and every where else. But since almost everyone at Janney is vaccinated no one is getting seriously ill so I don't know what you are going on about.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7121e1.htm

Summary
What is already known about this topic?

As more persons are exposed to and infected by SARS-CoV-2, reports of patients who experience persistent symptoms or organ dysfunction after acute COVID-19 and develop post-COVID conditions have increased.

What is added by this report?

COVID-19 survivors have twice the risk for developing pulmonary embolism or respiratory conditions; one in five COVID-19 survivors aged 18–64 years and one in four survivors aged ≥65 years experienced at least one incident condition that might be attributable to previous COVID-19.

Both that study and infographic are garbage.

+1. Where are all these long COVID patients?? Hiding in the basement of comet ping pong?

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Anonymous wrote:Parents, please opt out of covid testing for your child. It's the only way to stop this madness of masking and quarantines.

I want my kids masking if there's lots of covid in the class. And I don't want them going to school if they have covid. But if they don't have covid, I want them at school. I don't have any problem with the asymptomatic testing — or with keeping school open despite lots of cases.

NP. You will always, always be free to mask your kid. I don't want my kid to be forced to mask for ten days every couple of weeks because another kid in the class tested positive. That leads to nearly permanent masking, and it will continue indefinitely.

There is a reason the NFL stopped asymptomatic testing, as another PP above explained: they found very little evidence of asymptomatic transmission, and it was a far bigger problem for people to take a negative test as carte blanche to come in. Keep your kid home if they have symptoms. Don't pull a healthy kid out of school because of a random positive test.

We opted out of testing at the beginning of the year.

This. It's a de facto masking policy because the clock starts over for masking for 10 days with each new asymptomatic positive case. The masking doesn't even help because my kid's class has been masking for over a month and there are still new cases. Who are these crazy parents who haven't opted out of asymptomatic testing???