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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s been 12 days since masks became optional. When is doomsday, again? I want to get it on my calendar. [/quote]

Me too. 
Where are all the cases????[/quote]

Tons at our APS. [/quote]

Troll. There are no more than 5 cases at any APS school in the past 7 days. 
https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee[/quote]

You assume all cases are reported on that dashboard. They aren’t. We are at nottingham, and there are more than 5 cases and bunch of contacts/friends/siblings awaiting positives. [/quote]

I love “awaiting” positives.  As if it’s a done deal.

Do you know how many times my kid has been a contact and never gotten it and same for many others I know.

Also Nottingham is supposed to send out school wide notifications.  Have they been going out about all these cases?[/quote]

No, and [b]if the kids weren’t in school for 2 days prior to their positive[/b] the principal does not report them to families. We got one email this week thst just said “several cases” but didn’t give grades or even classes. All of this info about who is out is coming from friends. The principal doesn’t want her stats to look bad, but it seems we have an outbreak at Nottingham. [b]If you have uploaded your child’s vaccine info into the portal, then you are not a close contact and will not be contacted.[/b] Imo, and including my family, once one kid got covid, the whole family did. That’s what I mean by awaiting positives. [/quote]

Wow.  A lot going on in this post.

1  If the kids weren't in school for 2 days prior to their positive, the child wouldn't have been in school when they were considered contagious by CDC.  Your principal is following CDC close contact protocols.  That's like saying you should have been notified of all the kids who got covid over winter break.  Your principal has no obligation to tell the school community that information.  Why would you need to know that?

2. I don't think the stats make any principals look "bad".   The principal does not cause anyone to get covid.  Also, an outbreak would be occurring at Nottingham if multiple kids in one classroom got it from each other while at school.  Perhaps that happened.  But also perhaps, multiple kids at Nottingham got Covid.  You're calling it an outbreak when you have no actual information that is what is going on.

3.  You can be (and are) contacted as a close contact if you are a close contact.  If you are a vaccinated close contact, you just don't need to quarantine.   But you still are contacted.

4.  The vast majority of kids who are close contacts at school are not getting covid from these exposures.  I think it remains to be seen if that will still be the case if a lot of the kids are unmasked.

So in conclusion, if you have FACTS that 5 unmasked kids in one Nottingham classroom all gave each other covid at school and it's an outbreak, definitely come back and let us know.

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So much to unpack here.

2. If you think the Nottingham principal doesn't care about these stats then you don't know the Nottingham principal. 
3. APS contact tracing is a joke. Many close contacts are not being contacted. They should be, but that does not mean that is actually what is happening. 
4. Agree that so far most close contacts at school didn't get Covid but that's when both were masked. Could look very different now especially if the Covid positive kid is unmasked. And yes there are cases with positive unmasked kids.

It takes VDH weeks to officially classify an outbreak as an outbreak, but those close to it can usually tell much sooner. You don't think 5 cases in one small school the week after masks came off are significant? [/quote]

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