This is not a good sign for schools reopening

[Anonymous]

Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

[Anonymous]

According to that there have been 19 cases in DC schools which (correct me if I'm wrong) are all private schools (since DCPS/charters have been closed.

I have a kid in one of the big DC privates and they have tested every kid/teacher twice in the past month. Each time they test (500+ people) they come
up with 2-5 cases. All asymptomatic but they're caught on the screen. The school only tests after a break (most recently Thanksgiving) so they're finding
disease that was caught elsewhere in the community or when people went out of town. This isn't school-related spread at all.

If you're going to repeatedly test a population you're going to find cases and these schools are testing a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

Posted in another thread:

"D.C. officials acknowledged Tuesday that they are not seeing community spread within school buildings."

So they had to walk it back a day later and admit that those cases did not originate in classrooms, and that the cases didn't have to be linked in order to be considered an "outbreak". This means either they lied in the original release about what was an "outbreak source" or they're even bigger morons than I have given them credit for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-...b-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

Posted in another thread:

"D.C. officials acknowledged Tuesday that they are not seeing community spread within school buildings."

So they had to walk it back a day later and admit that those cases did not originate in classrooms, and that the cases didn't have to be linked in order to be considered an "outbreak". This means either they lied in the original release about what was an "outbreak source" or they're even bigger morons than I have given them credit for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-...b-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

Ditto this!
I'm the poster above this.
Within those 19 cases are ones that the privates caught on their very first testing screen of students (before they brought ANY kids back).
Clearly, any positives weren't the result of school attendance. But they were "credited" to schools on this report.
It's idiotic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

So Newsweek is uncritically reporting on DC's misleading publication of "outbreaks" "tied to" K-12 schools, which DC already had to admit weren't really "outbreaks" in any meaningful sense of the word, and weren't really "tied to" the schools because the infections weren't actually acquired or spread at school. Newsweek has seen better days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

Posted in another thread:

"D.C. officials acknowledged Tuesday that they are not seeing community spread within school buildings."

So they had to walk it back a day later and admit that those cases did not originate in classrooms, and that the cases didn't have to be linked in order to be considered an "outbreak". This means either they lied in the original release about what was an "outbreak source" or they're even bigger morons than I have given them credit for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-...b-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

Ditto this!
I'm the poster above this.
Within those 19 cases are ones that the privates caught on their very first testing screen of students (before they brought ANY kids back).
Clearly, any positives weren't the result of school attendance. But they were "credited" to schools on this report.
It's idiotic.

Astounding incompetence to publish such an error

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

So Newsweek is uncritically reporting on DC's misleading publication of "outbreaks" "tied to" K-12 schools, which DC already had to admit weren't really "outbreaks" in any meaningful sense of the word, and weren't really "tied to" the schools because the infections weren't actually acquired or spread at school. Newsweek has seen better days.

And DCUMers are falling for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

Posted in another thread:

"D.C. officials acknowledged Tuesday that they are not seeing community spread within school buildings."

So they had to walk it back a day later and admit that those cases did not originate in classrooms, and that the cases didn't have to be linked in order to be considered an "outbreak". This means either they lied in the original release about what was an "outbreak source" or they're even bigger morons than I have given them credit for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-...b-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

Ditto this!
I'm the poster above this.
Within those 19 cases are ones that the privates caught on their very first testing screen of students (before they brought ANY kids back).
Clearly, any positives weren't the result of school attendance. But they were "credited" to schools on this report.
It's idiotic.

Astounding incompetence to publish such an error

I doubt it was an error. I think it was someone with an agenda who thought they could get away with spreading such misinformation. After all, it's the age of Trump!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

So Newsweek is uncritically reporting on DC's misleading publication of "outbreaks" "tied to" K-12 schools, which DC already had to admit weren't really "outbreaks" in any meaningful sense of the word, and weren't really "tied to" the schools because the infections weren't actually acquired or spread at school. Newsweek has seen better days.

And DCUMers are falling for it.

Because it's what they want to hear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone seen this Newsweek report about Covid spread in DC:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/nearly-third-washington-dcs-covid-19-outbreaks-last-4-months-tied-daycare-k-12-schools-1552995%3famp=1

Posted in another thread:

"D.C. officials acknowledged Tuesday that they are not seeing community spread within school buildings."

So they had to walk it back a day later and admit that those cases did not originate in classrooms, and that the cases didn't have to be linked in order to be considered an "outbreak". This means either they lied in the original release about what was an "outbreak source" or they're even bigger morons than I have given them credit for.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-...b-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

This was a serious lapse in judgment, to call these outbreaks and strongly imply the source as schools themselves.

Who did this? Who on earth got away with that under Nesbitt? This clearly is someone with a strong agenda and I didn't see her as having that agenda (keeping schools shut).

This had a serious impact; many people did not read more closely, including many at our school. It went viral.

[Anonymous]

I am so confused now. I can’t figure out if schools are a source of spreading the virus or not. It seems like people on both sides of the issue have an agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so confused now. I can’t figure out if schools are a source of spreading the virus or not. It seems like people on both sides of the issue have an agenda.

They're not; at least in DC.

These 19 cases are screens that private schools did PRIOR to bringing kids back or after breaks (fall break which many schools had and now Thanksgiving break).

Now who knows what is happening in the elsewhere in the US or would happen if we brought public school kids back in DC.

But at least THIS DATA does not support school-related transmission. They are positives caught on screening tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so confused now. I can’t figure out if schools are a source of spreading the virus or not. It seems like people on both sides of the issue have an agenda.

You sound like my SIL who in the face of Trump's corruption and lies just throws up her hands and says, "All politicians are corrupt, so I might as well stop trying to figure out the facts and just stick with the guy from my side!". (Exactly what the Russian propaganda machine wants people to do.)

Of course on the school issue both sides have an agenda. But only one is distorting the truth by publishing misleading information about "outbreaks" despite the fact that these were a small number of disconnected cases where nothing indicates that infection happened in school. If you are too intellectually lazy to figure that out and would rather remain "confused", I can't help you.

If you can figure that out but think that even a small number of disconnected cases discovered at schools that originated outside of them are a reason to keep kids out of school indefinitely, I can't help you either (or your kids).

[Anonymous]

The only children that got Covid in our private school were children whose parents worked in the administration. The parents caught it and their kids did too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only children that got Covid in our private school were children whose parents worked in the administration. The parents caught it and their kids did too.

So far no cases in our private that has been open since Oct. (but also only know of one GOP family).