Anonymous wrote:I have two kids in APS and things don’t seem to be falling apart at all.

Interesting.

I know tons of APS families down with COVID. It’s spreading like crazy out there!

Seems like the problem is the school polices not the covid.

Hospitalizations very low in our area.

I have two kids in APS and things don’t seem to be falling apart at all.

Interesting.

Yeah its nuts. I read 15% of kids tested positive at St. Thomas More (it wa8 80 kids).

Congressional has half their 5th grade in virtual right now and is debating switching MS to all virtual because their numbers are so high.

Our S. Arlington ES, I am convinced all of 4th grade has covid.

Luckily everyone is fine, but sucks that so many kids are missing out. Schools should have fought to keep masks on until after SOLs (I am saying this TIC)

These are the after effects of the great unmasking. Biggest mistake, along with the change in the CDC color coding system, which gives the false impression that transmission levels are low when they aren’t.

Now things are falling apart as we head towards the end of the school year. I know so many families in the area (APS, FCPS, ACPS) that have COVID right now. All are cases where kids brought it home and infected the rest of the family.

Anonymous wrote:There were a ton from DHMS today. Way more than any previous day.

And even more today. Highest numbers seen so far.

There are a TON of cases at my ES kid’s school but it doesn’t look like they are being reported. Maybe parents aren’t notifying the school?

130+ cases the monday after a weekend and 75 cases on Tuesday is approaching January levels at this point. Highest numbers now at Taylor, Hamm, Cardinal, and Yorktown.

There were a ton from DHMS today. Way more than any previous day.

130 reported today - double numbers from last week. Arlington County overall is averaging 139/day.

Many families decided to only "mask until spring break" so not surprised more are still getting it.

You shouldn't be hugely surprised. As a nation we're in the middle of a surge in cases. Far fewer hospitalized and dying which is great, but cases are way up. Reality is they're even higher than are being reported since huge swaths of the population aren't even testing.

Anonymous wrote:Just noting that cases haven't really seemed to drop off from last week -- so far today we're at over 60, which is higher than where we were this time last week right after break. I do expect them to go back down within a week or two but do find it interesting that 22207 is getting the majority of the cases -- 95 compared with next highest zip of 31 cases in 22204. Not sure if this is lack of mask wearing in schools or fallout from Spring Break travel (folks coming back from break and infecting family members or others at their northern schools like Yorktown, Jamestown, and Discovery, which are the top 3 school vectors right now (beating out all the other high schools, even).

We're 3 weeks out from Spring Break now and actually cases seem to have gone up rather than down, if anything, however the outbreaks are moving around. 22207 is still the leader with 117 cases in the last week. https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee Jamestown and Discovery etc. numbers have dropped off and the new leaders are Yorktown High and Cardinal Elementary.

Not panicked AT ALL, just a little surprised the numbers haven't gone down earlier as I thought they would. I guess the new outbreak needs time to make its way through different schools before numbers recede back to earlier levels. I would predict then that in coming weeks other zip codes besides 22207 will become leaders again once the virus fully works its way through the schools in that population.

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Anonymous wrote:22 cases at Jamestown in the last week. That's more than at any high school, which is unusual. https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

Up to 35 in the last 7 days!

So like five a day which is less than one per grade. Anyone with inside info have insight into the cases? Are the cases from disparate sources (travel, sports, inside activities) or are kids getting it from not wearing masks in the classroom? Like- are there 15 kids from one class out.

Anonymous wrote:22 cases at Jamestown in the last week. That's more than at any high school, which is unusual. https://apsva.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941#/dashboard/60d5f170495a0000108b9941?pageId=Page_c7dbca22-0199-45ae-94fa-a01dbf2296ee

Up to 35 in the last 7 days!

Wish some of you would have traveled somewhere nice for spring break instead of monitoring everyone else's plans and mask statuses.