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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are these numbers saying that nominally 80percent of the suspected cases are actually covid? Or something along the lines of 50%? Either seems kind of high honestly, but I'm finding these numbers problematic.

Actually, after thinking about it for 30 seconds, I wonder if they have results for all those kids and /or are counting ones without results of a covid test for a certain amount of time as actually being covid.
 Open to the fact that these numbers could be correct, but it just sounds super fishy to me. Like super super fishy. And I am. I conspiracy theorist[/quote]

I'm **NO** conspiracy theorist. Sorry for the typo[/quote]

Yeah I agree- also my quick math says that's an average of 16 "close contacts" per positive case.  So can we presume the whole class was considered close contacts?  [/quote]

I am not aware of any situations in which the whole class wasn't quarantined. One thing they said in the BOE meeting today is that principals are in charge of contact tracing. And it is much easier for them to quarantine a whole class--in addition to not having to make calls on who was sitting where, it also means that they don't need to find anyone to teach virtually to the class. When a full class is quarantined, the teacher has to teach everyone virtually.[/quote]

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