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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are willing to teach because the risk of infection is considerably lower.

Solve the virus spread and you solve the problems of schools (and work, and travel, and just about everything else). But most people here would rather just argue about the everything else rather than solve the real problem. [/quote]

Many NOVA jurisdictions positivity rate is below 5%. Honest question, what number are you okay with?  NYC’s metric to reopen is 5%— although they are lower. [/quote]
DP.. what's the 7 day rolling average? Is nova/VA seeing cases go up even as the rate is below 5%?  Then that's a concern.  NY's rate is flat or going down. That's why they feel it's ok to re-open.

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Fairfax County is currently at 5.6 cases per 100,000 and steady if not slightly declining (we were at 6.1 at end of July).[/quote]

So, on average, 99,994 healthy students/adults in Fairfax County out of 100,000. . [/quote]

If we get to 99,996 heathy students/adults, can we reopen?  This is ridiculous. [/quote]

Exactly.  Does anyone know what positivity rates we are waiting on?  I believe DC and NYC have similar positivity rates, yet one is closed and the other is allowed to open.  Assume that in the absence of federal guidance this is a district-based decision?  Are teachers looking for 0%?  Not sure if the unions have said anything in this regard.[/quote]

Not DC, but a district in nearby NoVA:[i]

#8 Controlled community transmission: A demonstrated decline in new cases and hospitalizations for at least 14 days, a positive test rate of less than five percent, a transmission rate of under 1.0, and testing, contact tracing and isolation capacity in a given public health jurisdiction is necessary to move from remote instruction to in-person. A policy must be adopted that provides sick leave for educators and staff. [/i]

https://www.fcft.org/safe-reopening

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