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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're not going to sign up for testing, that's pretty clear. Very sad. [/quote]

Tell that to the 80%+ of people who didn't sign up.[/quote]

LOL. We don’t have 80% anti-testers.

We have some who didn’t know about it, some who didn’t understand it, and some who tried but the opt-in form was too confusing/laborious.

Only a small % were selfish a-holes who decided NOT to do the right thing.

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My impression from talking to people I know is that a lot of the people who didn't sign up support the idea in theory, but are concerned about how it will work in practice.  Someone raised questions on AEM last night (in the thread about the algorithm from the woman who called the testing company) about what happens if there are conflicting results between the algorithm and the confirmation test or if there are multiple positives in the pools that implicate several students not all of whom have covid.  People are legitimately concerned about how opaque the process is and whether their child could be barred from going to school when they are negative for covid because of flaws in the testing protocols.[/quote]

As one of the "very small %age of a--holes who didn't sign up,"  -- THIS!  This is why we didn't sign-up, except for one child who is being tested daily to participate in extracurricular activity.[/quote][/b]

All of this. APS needs to send an email as well as update the website with exactly how these algorithms work. Because this is all they have right now, and it's not enough information:
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During this method of testing the identity and integrity of individual samples collected as part of the program are maintained.  If a pool were to come up as a positive, the laboratory uses an algorithm to determine which samples to test for confirmation of which student(s) within the pool are positive.  These confirmation results will be followed up with a running of the individual sample(s) identified to confirm positive status.

During the confirmation period, the suspected positive student(s) in the pool who are identified using the algorithm will be excluded from in person instruction and activities.  The family can expect to receive definitive confirmation of the positive results after individual sample(s) are ran for confirmation which on average is 12-24 hours.  The entire participants in the pool will not need to quarantine during this process unless they are identified as a suspected case using the algorithm on the pooled samples.[/i][/quote]

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