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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]394 new cases in Virginia today. What a terrifying surge.[/quote]

There's alway a jump on Mondays because those include numbers from over the weekend. But by all means, continue to live in terror. [/quote]

Lmao you can’t read sarcasm? 394 is nothing. I’m mocking the “ba.2 surge” hype [/quote]

My children’s school (private) has tracked COVID cases all year. Two weeks ago there had been 88 cases in the whole school of around 1000 pupils and 350 faculty/staff). 44 of those cases had been in the prior 2 weeks. Since then there have been another 67 cases.

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What state is this? My state doesn’t have a single county reporting pediatric Covid numbers that high. For the whole county. [/quote]

New York. Also, these are mostly at home tests, which are vastly underreported in most government counts because people don’t report them. So yeah, it’s definitely out there. [/quote]

I hardly doubt NY doesn't have any schools reporting high numbers.[/quote]

Well, *most* private schools here were on a 2-week break for those weeks, so they weren’t reporting then, and most schools (including all public schools) have completely done away with any sort of school-organized testing so there’s a lot less data coming in. Our school (one of the few privates that takes a February and then an April break) dropped masks on March 7 like most others (end of the state mandate), and saw cases start to tick up the week after. We got exposure notices for our kids (because they were still doing them) on a daily basis so we were testing them almost daily, as per the school’s suggested guidelines to test on the day after exposure is known and 3-4 days later, but since we got notices nearly every day I just tested them daily. Finally after a couple of weeks of that they switched to an anonymous dashboard showing the number of cases in each grade/among staff. The first 3 days of this there were over 20 cases in the school. I checked the private school a few blocks away from ours on the state COVID dashboard and because of their spring break they are still reporting 0 new cases in the last 2 weeks.

In addition to all the kids/staff at our school I know of more parents or other adult friends who have had COVID in the past month than any other time during the pandemic - even more than December/January with omicron, and I knew of quite a few then. [/quote]

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