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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BTW, if you look at last year's dashboard compared to this year's, there definitely seem to be more cases this year.  Last year there were onesie twosie days interspersed occasionally with four and five cases a day.  Now we are getting three and foursies interspersed with eight and nine cases a day.  Eight kid cases reported today, 9 kid cases reported last Friday, 10 kid cases reported last Monday.

Not sure if these dashboard cases are overreported, or duplicates.  That was a problem last year (though also underreporting on the dashboard has also been a problem).[/quote]

There are more kids in school this year.  A lot more.[/quote]

or its bc of the stupid 'surveillance' testing which is catching asymptomatic cases that don't spread to anyone- and would have previously gone undetected- and insisting that they, and all their contacts, quarantine for 10-20 days.[/quote]

I mean some people look at the '3 people' who were reportedly caught as asympomatic positives last week and say ' whew- that's three outbreaks averted.'

SOme of us look at the fact that only 1.4% of school contacts go on to test positive, and the amazingly low/no rate of transmission from asymptomatic cases (as compared to pre-sympomatic) and say- oh how dreadful, thats 3 kids who have lost 10 days of learning, plus their siblings who have now lost 20 days (can't get out of quarantine until 10 days after the end of positive person's quarantine) contacts, who have lost 10, etc...   all of whom will almost certainly test negative.

yes- I am opposed to 'surveillance' testing in a school setting.[/quote]

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