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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point of surveillance testing is to have a broad repeated measure so that you can see if, over time or from one week to the next, the positivity rate is increasing (or decreasing).

If you simply refuse to contribute data then you are refusing to inform DCPS about the estimated population positive rate over time.

I hope that people are willing to consider the broader context here.[/quote]

This doesn't convince me as an argument to opt in for the following reasons:
1)  [b]DCPS generally sucks about data collection and analysis.  They certainly aren't set up to do medical testing.  I strongly doubt their ability to collect useful data.[/b]
2)  Even if DCPS was just trying to get a trend in positivity at school, why?  What would they do with that information?  They have never tied opening or closing to any metric.  There's no statements that they would use a positivity metric in the future for some stated purpose.
3)  DCPS uses the testing as a tool to try to prevent spread (supposedly).  It's unclear whether it is having that intended purpose.  DCPS seems to have no ability to weigh or remediate the downsides of (highly likely) quarantines from false positives against any potential benefits from preventing spread.  [/quote]

This is a really valid concern that I hadn't thought of. We've all seen DCPS educational data--it's not carefully collected or used. For them to now do this with health data?[/quote]

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