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Re:The case against masks at school by sokoloff on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:38PM (#30107978)
Is there a massive infection rate? My kid’s elementary school sends an email with the count of positive test results in the school each week. It seems like it’s consistently under 1% per week. (Typically 1-4 people testing positive in a city K-5 school, students and staff being tested.)
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Re:The case against masks at school by bcrosby95 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:55PM (#30108206)
Our school has seemed to do OK keeping it from spreading between kids.

But they also do weekly testing. And did surveillance testing at the end of winter break, which kept about 15% of the school's students at home for the first week back because they had covid.

This statistic was also consistent with LA Unified surveillance testing after winter break - about 15%.

Before winter break, some parents of 2nd graders had an indoor, maskless, holiday party. Apparently all the kids got covid. Then gave it to the teachers - all 4 2nd grade teachers were out of school with covid the week before winter break. But from what our school's testing showed, it didn't spread beyond that.

I do know of a couple families who did seem to get covid from their school though.

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Re:The case against masks at school by hcurtiss on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:40PM (#30109228)
Our elementary school in Oregon has required masks. And I can't think of a kid who hasn't got it, including our own. It's run rampant through Oregon schools. By my assessment, masks do very, very little to stop the spread.
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Re:The case against masks at school by bcrosby95 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:02PM (#30109855)
That's interesting. I'm in California, and I know a lot of kids that have caught it, but only 2 that can trace it back to the classroom.

We have caught about 3 things over the past ~year, but none of it covid (as far as tests showed) and all of them had obvious non-classroom links.

Two of them were sick friends. And the third was probably when our 3 year old licked a trashcan at the zoo.

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