Reply to Any rumors on when Hogan is going to make an announcement?

Forum Index » MD Public Schools other than MCPS

Reply to "Any rumors on when Hogan is going to make an announcement?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m hearing stage 1 earlier.  The trend has been going down or relative plateau on key metrics for MD for past few days (Tuesday is always a blip due to weekend reporting)  Cases are NOT the metric for stage 1 for MD since they are increasing testing by definition cases rise especially with universal testing at nursing homes.   [b]  ICU, hospitalizations and deaths are key metrics [/b]

Agree likely distance learning for rest of year.  [/quote]

But Hogan has been very clear that testing and tracing are another major part of the requirements for opening, and we're not there yet on either of those. He's admitted we still don't have the ability to use a lot of those 500,000 test kits because they're still sourcing swabs and reagents. And they're still working to hire people to do contract tracing.

That's why I think June is more reasonable for Phase 1. If hospitalizations stay down, and Virginia's reopening doesn't cause spillover spikes in MD, by that point they should have the infrastructure in place to test more widely than they're doing now, beyond just hotspots like nursing homes and packing plants. If done correctly, they could still be in Phase 2 in time to get child care facilities open (with enhanced safety measures) before the end of the month. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics