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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, Jeff redirected the thread about today's numbers over here. Here was what was going to be my response:

I'm looking all over and don't see it either. I mean, I do see "9643 Active Cases" and "3640 Active Quarantines" in the blue graphic dashboard part, but I don't know how that's changed since yesterday, if at all.

Ohhhhhhh, if I look in TINY print below the bottom right of the dashboard graphic area, it does say it was "Last updated 1/12/2022"

If it is so, it's about 170k students + staff, right? So that's somewhere around 5-6% active cases and 8% either cases or quarantined.

That actually seems low.

In any event, the entire dashboard graphic section hasn't been updated, because my school is showing 32 *total* cases in the menu on the left side and it had 32 positives yesterday alone. But it's also not meant to be just active cases, because there are more than that. Maybe... all of these numbers are meant to represent JUST YESTERDAY'S NEWLY-REPORTED numbers? Oh, FFS, who can tell? [/quote]

Hmmm (NP)... Looking an hour later than you, the dashboard numbers for my kids' two schools are clearly totals-- as they are much higher than the Jan. 11 case numbers. The overall percentages of cases are still pretty low--around 4-5% in one and 7-8% in the other--which comports with their experience that not many kids and teachers are out (at least yet). Odd how varied the experiences seem to be across just one district.[/quote]

Hi, I'm the PP you were responding to.

There's no way ours could be total active cases, unfortunately. The only thing I can think of, that would make both your and my numbers "correct," is if that box with the individual schools still hasn't been updated since break. Like, maybe we did have 32 total cases through Dec 22, and just coincidentally had 32 yesterday. That actually sounds totally possible when I think back to our "community letters." We had ebbs and flows, but probably on average, 2 per week for ~16 weeks?

That would also explain why your total numbers were much higher than yesterday's daily numbers, especially if your Jan 11 daily numbers weren't shockingly high, like ours were. In fact, I believe our Jan 11 numbers were only so high because they had been implausibly low before-- we were just "catching up" with testing (higher-poverty school). So, let's say you had 8 cases in an ES yesterday, but your total before break was 30. They could say "30" and that could seem more like a reasonable number for your "active cases" (last 5-10 days or however they're counting them), but I suspect that 30 is really just the cases through Dec 22. Anyway, just a hunch.

It's not odd that experiences would vary across the district, though. SES at the very least is wildly divergent. [/quote]

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