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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Agree. More testing is NOT in the interest of those who want schools open. It’s in the interest of those who want maximum risk avoidance, don’t mind frequent quarantines, and are perhaps hoping for schools to switch to virtual instruction due to asymptomatic cases.[/quote]

So we don’t test, have COVID running rampant through classrooms.  Kids become symptomatic and then we quarantine anyway.  Except this time it’s the whole class instead of just a couple of kids.  Smart move. [/quote]

Kids who feel sick can stay home. They can come back when they feel better. Just like with every other virus. [/quote]

You realize the people are thought to be contagious before they are symptomatic?[/quote]

You realize I don't think that preventing infections is worth keeping kids who feel well out of school at this point? Kids who feel sick should stay home to recover and because it's unpleasant to be in school when you're not well. [/quote]

So you think a kid who feels okayish should just go to school, infect others, and then some if those kids have to stay home?  Nice.

There is a reason kids are suppose to stay home a full 24 hours after the end of fever, diarrhea, etc.  Generally, society expects others to not willfully spread highly-contagious diseases.

Finally, there are not all that many asymptomatic covid positives — usually “asymptomatic” means pre-symptomatic.[/quote]

Your last sentence is completely wrong for kids. I work in a pediatric ED and fully 50% of our positives are incidents findings in kids there for unrelated reasons (we test everyone who might be admitted). I would guess that the asymptomatic rate in children is around 50%.[/quote]

I think that kids' covid cases have been found to be 50-60% asymptomatic in large-scale population-survey studies in the UK.  [/quote]

Was the study of Delta or before?[/quote]

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