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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]What is the deal with the anonymous tweet about 25% of these phase one teachers/staff contracting Covid? Are there any legs around that?[/quote]

No, there isn't.  If it were anywhere close to true, APS would be required to report it and it would turn up in the Covid outbreak dashboard for Arlington (there have been zero in K-12 schools in Arlington County for the entire pandemic).  You only need two confirmed cases in a facility to have it be listed as an outbreak. [/quote]

Also worth noting that the tweet appears to have been deleted.[/quote]

If you look on the latest on AEM, an APS staff person who works with the superintendent posted that they did indeed announce 55 have been infected, however that includes staff not working in person in schools. The major issue is that there’s been no transparency on this unlike other local counties. [/quote]

Yeah and why did this have to leak through staff and then AEM before he admitted that? Come on APS. Other schools are disclosing Covid cases. Be better. [/quote]
Because a 0.8% infection across a large population that aren’t even in the same physical location simply isn’t news right now.  It’s completely expected.

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This. This right here. This is either APS or APE chiming in. APS said this in the staff meeting and the APE crowd said it on AEM.

They are trying to make the case rate look lower by using all 7000 APS staff as the denominator. But that's not honest. Most of the staff are working virtually. Only 237 are back in person. If you instead use the 237 as the denominator, you get a 24% case rate. Quite different.

Of course, we don't actually know how many of those 55 cases were from the in person staff because APS will not say. But because virtual staff are not required to report cases to APS, I would have to think that the vast majority are from in person.

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Virtual staff requesting CARES leave due to COVID would report. [/quote]

+1.  One of my kids’ teachers is currently on sick leave because she has covid.  She admitted to the parents in her email detailing the sub plan that she caught it visiting a family member over the holidays.[/quote]

I think our kid has the same teacher ;) If not, it's the same scenario. [/quote]

This is exactly why so many parents are incredibly disappointed with APS teachers that do not want to return to the classroom. There are more safety measures in school than visiting family. Was this teacher wearing a mask/face shield when visiting family? Probably not. Was she staying 6 feet apart from everyone? Did they eat lunch/dinner with their family?? It seems OK to risk visiting family with no safety measures, but returning to class with masks and face shields, and half the amount of students present, is considered super high risk somehow. This is so hypocritical and NOT OK. [/quote]

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