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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that some schools have many more cases of COVID among staff than others.  
Are safety protocols such as masks being followed?  
Are staff eating lunch or going out together for maskless social events after work? 
How well are the ventilation measures in these schools? 
Are vaccination rates low among students and staff?

The extremes of the spread in some schools but relatively low numbers of COVID in other schools seems odd unless there’s an underlying risk for higher rates of transmission in specific schools.[/quote]

Honey, these teachers have been on winter break. Same as families.   Travel, socializing, restaurants.   Majority of staff are vaccinated.  We need to stop relying on vaccines to save us.  [/quote]

Perhaps it’s time to also point out those who want schools to close because of exposure risk, but then go out to eat and watch a moving on a theater.[/quote]

The scientist in me is puzzled by the differences in the numbers within the schools.  I would think the DHHS would want to comb through the numbers to see if safety protocols for staff and students could be improved.

If I were the teacher union or a parent, would you want to know if the air filtration is inadequate and needs fixing hence why one school rate of transmission is higher than another?

If I was in DHHS, do these schools represent pockets in the community that have been denied an opportunity for testing, vaccinations, and boosters because they can’t take off work. Does the county need to make testing and shots more accessible in these pockets?

The disparity in the data is something someone should comb through as a matter of public health and safety. Yes I know COVID is here, but learning to live with the virus is learning how to decrease community transmission. Sick employees can’t work, sick students can’t go to schools, and any family sick with COVID means the whole house needs to quarantine which is especially hard on hourly laborers.

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So,  you just want more theater?  We have plenty of  opportunities for testing and vaccines/boosters.  You can get them all over the place at different times.  You  are making  up excuses.

What needs to stop is behavior.  That is  what is  spreading it.[/quote]

Beyond behavior at school - such as not eating separately for lunch or eating outside - behavior is out of the control of MCPS.

Could the County Council close bars and restaurants for maskless in person drinking and eating? Sure, that would control community behavior.

Could DHHS set up vaccination and testing sites in the school communities with high COVID rates after school and on weekends? Yes, that would help more people in under served communities access shots and tests.

School nurses are DHHS employees and thus far they have been doing the testing in schools.  Should DHHS hire more staff and provide more access to testing in schools? Should MCPS move to a test to stay program? Yes, more testing decreases community spread - not only in schools but also entire family units. For every positive staff member and student identified as positive, whole family units are identified to quarantine to prevent spreading COVID to coworkers and in public spaces like grocery stores.

MCPS, DHHS, and the County Council need to work together for a comprehensive and collective approach to the rise in COVID. [/quote]

The issue is people like you are waiting for the do nothing government to fix this.  They aren’t.   The will not.  Ultimately people need to chill for a while and hope it passes.  [/quote]

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