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Curley School Covid-19 numbers increase again; school again reminds families to self isolate
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self isolate
As Rocky the flying squirrel would say, "that trick never works."
Plague school
Scarlet C for you
"Privacy reasons"
I'm getting very tired of this. (Somerville does it too.) There's a large number of people in each group, and "got covid" isn't particularly sensitive information in the first place.
They can very well give rough numbers of the incidence in each group without compromising privacy, and that's valuable information for the community.
I dunno
It's a pretty major liability issue for the school, and without a lawyer to dissect every communication she makes, I don't blame the principal for erring on the side of vagueness. You're right that each group is large enough that anonymity likely isn't a problem, but the flip side of that size is that narrowing it down to "faculty" or "students" doesn't actually give us any better information about possible exposure risks.
Totally unrelated: by any chance are you the same Tim Mc. who used to sit at a desk on the third floor of a building on Congress Street, slinging bits across the table from an Erik G? If so, hi former coworker!
Sure am
and thought that might be you. :-)
The reason I think it's worthwhile to know about staff vs. students is that the two groups have different exposure profiles. I believe that staff are disproportionately more likely than students to bring an infection into the school (staff are adults who go to restaurants, etc.; kids have less of that sort of exposure). I also think that breakdown by grade is useful and non-sensitive.
If you see that most of the positives are staff, that gives you (a parent) a clue that transmission is mostly adult-to-adult in offices and breakrooms; if it's first in students in one grade and then in another, there's probably transmission happening in the cafeteria or specialist classrooms. And then you have a better sense of what to advocate for.
Ideally it would all be taken care of by professional contact tracers, the staff enforcing all safety guidelines on each other and the students, and the district doing good modeling of spread... but I've seen too much to believe that parents can just have faith in that. We need more information so that we can participate in ensuring safe schools.
School transmission
Most of the in-school transmission now is student-to-student. Most staff are vaccinated; most kids are not yet. Students also don’t do a great job of either wearing their masks correctly or social distancing. It’s just not what kids do well.
I was surprised to see
That they do not list students and teachers separately on the Covid Dashboard. It has not been updated to reflect this past week yet…
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1_wonz_KKza2ctfN-FHcU5VxKMT8u...
Hey Curleys
Turns out, dog waste isn't the only thing that spreads disease, huh?
Just how casually can BPS
Just how casually can BPS approach this? Children have died of covid, but they worry about invented privacy reasons. Breaking down the cases by category doesn't affect anyone's privacy.
Kids in MA aren’t dying
Please site your claim that they are.