CDC finds scant spread of coronavirus in schools with precautions in place

[Anonymous]

The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

[Anonymous]

We have known this for months. This is not news.

[Anonymous]

As someone who is wary of the start times, but did choose hybrid in summer- this is a big relief to see!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have known this for months. This is not news.

I disagree, we have seen countless people on this board argue the opposite that schools are not safe.

Teachers who want to stay virtual, sorry the jig is up.

Once WaPo starts driving the agenda against you it’s over.

Let’s open em up!!

[Anonymous]

The data has been building and building and building. Major organizations (UNICEF, WHO, CDC, AAP, niche departments at various universities that specialize in this stuff, etc.) are all on board with schools opening with mitigation measures in place.

The only argument against has been from individual fringe voices.

Hopefully enough data will mount to embarrass either school boards or Richmond to act. It's time and past time. Principals and teachers can do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

Also email them today’s numbers:

874/100,000

15.1% PPR

[Anonymous]

This also says that if we want to open safely, some indoor sports without masks, like wrestling, should not take place. Chantilly has had indoor sports outbreaks. Please also tell the SB that Brabrand can and should choose not to follow VSHL, like Arlington did, and should immediately stop the indoor sports that are causing outbreaks so that school can reopen safely. It’s ridulous that kids are indoors wrestling without masks in FCPS while the littles try to learn to read on laptops at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

Also email them today’s numbers:

874/100,000

15.1% PPR

Maybe those numbers would actually go down with schools open. Some doctors are starting to think so. It would take kids and teachers OUT of the community into a situation where mitigation measures are in place.

“Schools may be little islands of safety,” Coffin [a professor of infectious disease at UPenn] said. “Where the people who gather, if they gather in good conscience and committed to safety plans, [can] go about their day as safely as the community, but even more safely.”

(source)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This also says that if we want to open safely, some indoor sports without masks, like wrestling, should not take place. Chantilly has had indoor sports outbreaks. Please also tell the SB that Brabrand can and should choose not to follow VSHL, like Arlington did, and should immediately stop the indoor sports that are causing outbreaks so that school can reopen safely. It’s ridulous that kids are indoors wrestling without masks in FCPS while the littles try to learn to read on laptops at home.

Northam and VA said schools were good to open this summer/fall. Its been safe for kids to be in school all along. FCPS has an HR problem, not a Covid problem. I don't have an issue with kids doing OTHER activities that Virginia is permitting under Covid restrictions (sports, clubs, etc). If all kid activities had been shut down all year, we still wouldn't have open schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

Also email them today’s numbers:

874/100,000

15.1% PPR

They are aware and voting to open anyway. The gig is up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This also says that if we want to open safely, some indoor sports without masks, like wrestling, should not take place. Chantilly has had indoor sports outbreaks. Please also tell the SB that Brabrand can and should choose not to follow VSHL, like Arlington did, and should immediately stop the indoor sports that are causing outbreaks so that school can reopen safely. It’s ridulous that kids are indoors wrestling without masks in FCPS while the littles try to learn to read on laptops at home.

Northam and VA said schools were good to open this summer/fall. Its been safe for kids to be in school all along. FCPS has an HR problem, not a Covid problem. I don't have an issue with kids doing OTHER activities that Virginia is permitting under Covid restrictions (sports, clubs, etc). If all kid activities had been shut down all year, we still wouldn't have open schools.

Yep. No point making all kids miserable AND having no school. If something is legally allowed under the VA guidelines, I don't have a problem with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

Also email them today’s numbers:

874/100,000

15.1% PPR

Where does the 874 come from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

Also email them today’s numbers:

874/100,000

The numbers look great!!

HUGE drops in all metrics and they are all falling off a cliff.



15.1% PPR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools different from nursing homes and high-density worksites where rapid spread has occurred.

“The preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,” wrote three CDC researchers in a viewpoint piece published online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

The only discussion we should be having now is how fast we should be opening.

Please email this to all SB reps!!!!

Also email them today’s numbers:

874/100,000

15.1% PPR

They are aware and voting to open anyway. The gig is up.

As they should be, per experts from the Brown University School of Public Health:

https://globalepidemics.org/2020/12/18/schools-and-the-path-to-zero-strategies-for-pandemic-resilience-in-the-face-of-high-community-spread/

Brabrand has most of this, except testing of teachers, in place. So if the school board wants to quibble about something, they can demand teacher testing. Shoot, I'd donate toward the cost of periodic testing for teachers who have yet to receive 2 doses of the vaccine myself if it would get schools open.

[Anonymous]

You forgot this paragraph. Which sort of kills the APS and FCPS plan for middle and high school. Cohorts are needed: this was obvious in July.

The CDC recommends that schools require masks, allow for a distance of six feet between people and keep students in cohorts to limit the number of people who must quarantine in the case of an exposure.