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[quote=Anonymous]Dec 20- Total Number of DCPS Students Tested Positive: 1954
Dec 16- Total Number of DCPS Students Tested Positive: 1437

It took 3.5 months of school to get almost 1500 cases and 4 days to add another 500.  And knowing how overtaxed school admin are doing contact tracing right now (yes it is your principal and other staff in charge of this not DC health or central).  I’d be shocked if this isn’t an undercount.

I get some/many are in the camp that they don’t care how many kids test positive anymore.  I just want people to own that position in the light of these numbers.

The spike this week has nothing to do with  limitations in DCPS mitigation.  Is the mitigation strategies great?  Meh.  But the level of masking, hepa filters, etc DCPS has been doing was good enough for Delta abd earlier variants.  This is omicron and the game has changed.

I don’t want extended virtual school.  I don’t even want virtual school after break.  I do think DCPS should have closed or went virtual these last 3 days.  When there is a fundamental change like this a short pause to assess and adjust is completely warranted.  DCPS and the mayor should own this too instead of allowing the true scope of cases to be hidden by misleading statements in press conferences and super delayed notifications to school communities due to insane red tape.  Just say we think 3 days of school is important enough to override the negative of high covid transmission in school right now.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/node/1506966
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