What's with all the positive Covid cases in staff at Williamsburg?

[Anonymous]

Four (4!) positive cases reported by staff over the last two days from the link on the dashboard -- are those three positive cases reported less than 10 minutes apart just a mistake or is that for real?

Apr 13 2021 1:03pm EDT In Person Williamsburg Middle Positive Diagnosis or Positive Test
Apr 13 2021 3:25pm EDT In Person Oakridge Elementary Close Contact
Apr 13 2021 5:58pm EDT In Person Syphax Education Center Close Contact
Apr 14 2021 6:14am EDT In Person Arlington Science Focus Elementary Close Contact
Apr 14 2021 6:47am EDT In Person Arlington Science Focus Elementary Close Contact
Apr 14 2021 7:39am EDT In Person Williamsburg Middle Positive Diagnosis or Positive Test
Apr 14 2021 7:43am EDT In Person Williamsburg Middle Positive Diagnosis or Positive Test
Apr 14 2021 7:46am EDT In Person Williamsburg Middle Positive Diagnosis or Positive Test

Moreover, if there are all those staff contacts, wouldn't there be some students reported as close contacts over the last two weeks, given that all 4 of these are in person staff? But there are no positive student cases at Williamsburg and no close contacts reported either -- it's the latter that seems unlikely. Wouldn't some of these be teachers and therefore wouldn't some in person kids have had contact in a classroom with those teachers?

I'm a little confused about how they arrive at these numbers, but 4 staff members from one school in two days seems like a lot, sheesh!

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t these people be vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Why would you expect close contact reports for students from the past two weeks in connection with staff members who only got their positive test results the past day or two?

[Anonymous]

Isn't it also possible that it is an admin staff and maybe there won't be a ton of close contacts

[Anonymous]

Or the student page will update with 4 pages of “close contacts” after the health department does contact tracing?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a staff cluster. A lot of the research on covid in schools has shown that adults failing to take precautions are a big factor.

[Anonymous]

Likely cafeteria workers - a cluster of staff and have to be there with kids unmasked for a couple hours.

[Anonymous]

As for the time reported, if the school can push through the data. It's not that the people all got their results within 10 minutes of each other.

[Anonymous]

Probably cafeteria workers. They are the only ones working closely together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably cafeteria workers. They are the only ones working closely together.

Could also be a special Ed classroom. I’ve had up to 5 adults in my room before.

[Anonymous]

I hope everyone is ok.

[Anonymous]

Two more added

Apr 15 20218:04am EDT In Person Williamsburg Middle Positive Diagnosis or Positive Test
Apr 15 20218:08am EDT In Person Williamsburg Middle Positive Diagnosis or Positive Test

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably cafeteria workers. They are the only ones working closely together.

Could also be a special Ed classroom. I’ve had up to 5 adults in my room before.

Or teachers eating together in a staff room at lunch? I don't know how they handle lunch there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably cafeteria workers. They are the only ones working closely together.

Could also be a special Ed classroom. I’ve had up to 5 adults in my room before.

Or teachers eating together in a staff room at lunch? I don't know how they handle lunch there.

Will be interesting to learn more, considering most have been vaccinated. Of course that doesn’t prevent all infection but to have 6 staff positives is certainly something to look into.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they had an in-person meeting or lunch. That's how most of the transmissions happen.