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Actually I was wrong. LA Unified is mandating weekly testing of all teachers and students regardless of vaccination status. 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-10/gov-newsom-expected-to-order-school-employees-to-get-vaccinated-or-be-tested-regularly%3f_amp=true
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I wonder how they afford that.

Also, I wonder what their policies are regarding positives -- do they allow for retests to see if it was a false positive, do they send the entire class home, etc.

Their summer school testing I believe was the same thing -- weekly testing -- and that caught a very low rate of cases and very little spread in schools.[/quote]

Weren't we given massive Covid relief funds? I know states have used them for EVERYTHING on their fantasy shopping lists, but shouldn't we (with these funds) be able to "afford" means to keep schools open and children safe? If that were high on the list, that is. Our summer camps tested, but schools not so much? I'm annoyed by the afford argument as we were given funds specifically to reopen society as best we can, not to backfill pet projects.[/quote]

Quick back-of-the-envelope:

say you've got 100,000 kids in DC schools

35 weeks of school

Each test is $5 (?).

That gets you a cost of $17.5M.

I don't know if that's big or small in relation to DC's covid relief funds, nor do I know if that $5 includes the lab capacity (or it is just the cost of the test itself).[/quote]

Tests are going to be more than $5 unless you are pooling. Pooling can work if pods are isolated, but if incidence is high, the amount of confirmatory testing required creates some operational complexities. Not saying there shouldn't be testing, but it is going to be more expensive than that BOE math. The CDC had a pot of $10B in ELC funding for school testing that states/districts had to apply to receive. Not sure what D.C. asked for. There are additional federal funds and programs, but not sure what D.C. has specifically. [/quote]

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