Whoa—Florida Dept of Health accidentally released a report on #COVID19 outbreaks at schools— daycare centers to colleges—nearly 900 students & staffers had tested positive in 2-week of August as schools had just begun/readied to reopen. FL then deleted🧵
news.yahoo.com/state-report-s…
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2) State officials published the six-page draft online on Monday, but then quickly wiped it away a day later. Saying it wasn’t ready. Very limited data so far otherwise.
3) “Florida International University infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Mary Jo Trepka said the detailed data was one of the most valuable reports the DOH has produced because it assesses how the virus is affecting the state’s children as they return to the classroom.”
4) “It’s very good that they are starting to report this now and then going forward as schools start to reopen. This is going to be really important for each county to be closely monitoring these numbers to see the impact of schools’ reopening.”
5) “But because someone tested positive, it doesn’t mean the school was the source of infection: “It just means that the sick person was in one of those institutions; it doesn’t mean that they acquired it there.”
—but still critical to know where cases are and in whom.
—but still critical to know where cases are and in whom.
6) “Florida Dept of Health Director of Comm Alberto Moscoso said in an email to the Herald last week that the report, called the “Schools and Daycares COVID-19 Surveillance Reports,” which Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees requested, was not supposed to be publicized yet.”
7) “These draft reports were inadvertently made available on archival site & not yet finalized. They remain under review as the Dept verifies that data is accurately reflected”. He said the reports will become available “in the coming days and weeks” at floridahealthcovid19.gov
