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[quote=Anonymous]They won’t need to test every single person, just enough to justify closing.

Teachers must test on Monday. If “too many” are positive, they will likely close individual classes, grades, or schools. Knowing how many teachers are available will tell them how many students they can handle…

Then on Tuesday, they’ll look at the student population submissions. If they have enough negative-tested kids AND enough negative-tested teachers, they’ll start mixing and matching and building temporary classroom groups. They will also know the ratio of tested to untested students and the ratio of positive to negative within the tested population. From this they can extrapolate and estimate the whole population ratio.

By the Tuesday deadline, they’ll know if they’ll have enough teachers to handle admitting the estimated number of students who will test negative at the door, and be able to print out the “admit” and “deny entry” lists for Wednesday morning, as well as classroom assignments.

They probably have some threshold they’ll use to declare defeat and just cancel school. If they do actually hold school on Wednesday, all the non-tested students will be denied entry and have their parents called or texted (the night before or when they arrive). If an unescorted student shows up at school untested, the parents can be called to come (back) to the school, fetch their kid and a test kit and upload their results or present them or just say it was negative.

Also, and here’s the fun part, the rapid tests miss about half of the positive specimens. So for each student who is identified as positive and told to stay home there is another positive student whose test reports negative and who gets admitted.

Source: informed speculation [/quote]

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