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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m confused. CDC requires you either get a test or quarantine if you’ve had an exposure. How is sitting 3-6 ft from someone infected with covid not an exposure according to DCPS?[/quote]

CDC updated its requirements (and DCPS followed suit) to recognize that if students are masked, then they aren't exposed when one of them tests positive.  This is consistent with studies last year which showed that when students attend school while masked, exposures were not happening at school, and to the extent students did test positive, it was a result of exposure at home or elsewhere outside of school.  
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This is absolutely bonkers. As someone who has expertise in an adjacent area of public health, I’m so angry that public health guidance is a reflection of political interests rather than the public interest.

There are limited studies about transmission in the classroom, but they were all conducted *before* the Delta variant was prevalent. Epidemiologists know that Delta doesn’t need 15 minutes of exposure; it’s more contagious, and 15 minutes isn’t a magic number. Municipalities are already seeing school, camp and daycare-based transmissions. Preprint papers are talking about transmission happening in seconds, not minutes.

The whole point of the multi-layered, “swiss cheese” approach is that implementing multiple mitigation efforts reduces the risk and can make classrooms safe. But what’s the point of a cohort if they’re not going to be tested or quarantined when there’s an outbreak? CDC specifically does not count mask wearing when contract tracing for adults, but does for children. This just does not align with evolving data about the predominant variant constituting 97% of cases; it’s about politics and convenience. (Although CDC *does* say only “well-fitted and consistent” mask use is an exception to the “close contact” guidance, which honestly no student really meets).

Making politically convenient policy decisions and then justifying them by mischaracterizing the science makes my blood boil.[/quote]

I am sorry, are you claiming expertise based on being in an “adjacent field?”[/quote]

Whatever her credentials, she is right.[/quote]
Yes, she is. And that’s why people are so upset at her post. The facts are very inconvenient. [/quote]

Very convincing. I see what you got out of that PhD program![/quote]

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