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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, in addition to pushing for a vaccination drive at your school, another thing you can do is organize parents at your school around opting in to asymptomatic testing. Make the case for why everyone should opt in, help folks with the form, etc. The more people who participate in testing, the better off we will all be.

(This will be more effective than trying to change the testing plan that is in place or complaining that it is insufficient.)[/quote]

Not sure more testing will help more than it hurts. Most positives will be false (statistically if overall prevalence is lower than the specificity of the test), or they will pick up asymptomatic cases that may not have spread. Sure, in some instances they will prevent transmission, but they will also cause a lot of unnecessary quarantines.[/quote]
Exactly! Our school (not DCPS) is planning to do pooled testing on asymptomatic kids. I think it’s crazy since we don’t even know whether they even transmit! It’s going to cause so many false alarms and hand wringing. [/quote]

We do know that asymptomatic people can transmit virus!

And the most prevalent symptom with Delta is a headache.  How are you going to check elementary students for a headache at the door?![/quote]

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