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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools in New England have started reopening as normal — kids going to school in person, five days a week. These are states with similar coronavirus caseloads as DC.

I don’t understand these people who think schools can never reopen.[/quote]

We know people in NE whose kids are back in school like normal. They don’t have all the drama and hyperventilating around it like we do here (thanks to the DC teachers union). [/quote]

Please don't try to convince us that we live in New England.  They have entire states with 7-day average daily case counts in the low teens.  We have single cities like DC and single counties like Montgomery, PG, and Arlington that have 60-90 cases per day, and in the 500s for the entire state of Maryland or even approaching 1,000 a day for the entire state of Virginia.

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Well first off, this is the DC schools thread so the case loads in MD and VA are relevant (obviously higher caseloads there affect us in the city) but not definitive. DC is not seeing daily new cases of 60-70. The current daily positivity rate is just 3.3% and has been at or below 5% for a while. It does seem to be plateauing there, which is concerning— we probably want to see a rate of 1-2% before we open schools. But people are correct that DC’s numbers are quite low and have been staying low. Dismissing this by lumping DC in with MD and VA is not an honest rebuttal. Especially since DC has stricter policies regarding business closures, public gatherings, and mask requirements. DC’s policies are working. The goal of those policies is to make it safe enough to go back to school. So maybe stop dismissing school reopening as a crazy pipe dream? It looks like a realistic possibility sooner rather than later.[/quote]

The three adjacent DC area municipalities are collectively reporting nearly 80 average daily cases, including DC (45), Alexandria (19), and Arlington (12).  Their adjacent counties are each reporting close to 100 cases a day, including Fairfax (90), Montgomery County (95), and PG County (107).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

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