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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, Monday my school reported 12 cases and gave out rapid tests. Tuesday my school reported 40 cases. So that’s a lot of people caught by the rapid tests who maybe didn’t know they were sick and are presumably now out of school? Good that they are not in school, bad that maybe they didn’t realize they were sick? [/quote]

I assume they weren´t sick, just infected.[/quote]

Well, yes, that’s my point.  Rapid tests in school appear to be catching people who were infected but were unaware they were infected, presumably because they either had no symptoms or they had mild non-specific symptoms they didn’t attribute to COVID.  Nonetheless those 40 people who tested rapid positive were presumably capable of transmitting to others, so the rapid test handout presumably prevented some forward transmission.

I wish rapid tests were freely available at MCPS schools for all staff, teachers, students and families thereof. I wish that schools offered regular pooled PCR salivia testing.l[/quote]

At this level of transmission, pooled testing would be pretty pointless, because every pooled sample would show Covid! It was also hard to do last year because of low numbers of opt-ins and the lack of isolated class groupings in many schools. [/quote]

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