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20 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
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Virginia "is in the beginning stages of launching the pilot program, but Dr. Forlano said she aims to provide tests... to every school division that requests them. If a school expressed interest, VDH would send them free test kits."

tinyurl.com/VABinax4Schools
The rapid tests are pricey, but could be cheaper than 2-day lab turnaround PCR tests now used. APS admins told us they expected to pay as much as $50 or more per test sent off to the lab. (Maybe they got the price down?) Rapid tests are also MUCH faster.

abcnews.go.com/Health/counter…
The rapid tests can indicate if you are *infectious* within 15 minutes, allowing for faster action, detection, and prevention of outbreaks.

Never allowing COVID-19 to ENTER our buildings is the top strategy in the hierarchy of controls.

While we hope for rapid tests in near future, APS deserves kudos for starting to offer FREE PCR testing for anyone w/symptoms at school, plus FREE walk-up testing at 3 schools for students/staff. (Mon-Sat)

Participation/consent forms + details here:

apsva.us/school-year-20…

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22 Apr
1/ A big myth of the "return to school buildings" debate is that COVID-19 magically🧙‍♀️ doesn't spread in kids.

A preprint from an Omaha pilot project debunks this bigly (again).

Another 🧵 with evidence for TESTING to detect and 🛑🦠. #SafetyIsVITAL

abcnews.go.com/Health/study-s…
2/ University of Nebraska Medical Center found:

📌 Lots of asymptomatic COVID-19; testing caught cases MUCH higher than typical school reporting (self-reports and symptomatic).

📌 Staff: 2.5x more COVID

📌 Students: 6x more

📌 10x more 🦠 at school than in community stats Image
3/ Turns out schools may have missed up to 9 of 10 student cases and 7 of 10 staff cases — before better testing to detect and #StopTheSpread of COVID-19.

📌 District also mitigated risks:
✔️ hybrid
✔️ ¼ occupancy
✔️ 😷
✔️ 6 ft distancing

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20 Apr
1/ Study finds indoor sports most likely setting in our schools to spread COVID-19.

Secondary attack rates by setting:
📌indoor, contact sports like🏀, wrestling, cheer (23.8%)
📌staff meetings or lunches (18.2%)
📌elementary school rooms (9.5%)

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…
2/ Tracked COVID-19 cases Dec 11, 2020, to Jan 22, 2021, in an Atlanta district that included 8 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and a high school. Students were in-person 4 days per week and wore masks, with desks spaced 3 to 6 feet apart. More kids in ES rooms than MS/HS.
3/ All cases confirmed by PCR testing. Secondary attack rate (SAR) — % of contacts who become infected— was calculated by setting (classroom, bus, indoor sports); student or staff; symptomatic or asymptomatic, and time of exposure.

Overall, 9% secondary contacts got sick.
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19 Apr
1/ Really tired of reasonable, critical, school safety mitigations being mired in politics. Local "open schools/COVID just flu" groups are funded by GOP hardliners w/extreme views on masks, vaccines and need for public health regs.

(Lost an election? Try a recall.)
2/ And yet, we may have a lot of room actually for common ground and a return to reason, a return to a common set of working facts — sensible precautions to keep school buildings open.

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021…
3/ Concerns are heightened when people have more experience with COVID-19. We should be erring on the side of doing more for safety, not less.

@APSVirginia won't commit to masks or 3' distance in fall, but families must choose a fall learning model now!

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021…
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20 Mar
1/ Airborne transmission, and the 3 feet vs. 6 feet question: A 🧵 with links for policy advocates trying to sort through the science...

WARNING: Nuance Ahead
2/ COVID-19 is mainly spread by inhaling small particles.

Timeline with illustrations, articles, studies:
#COVIDisAirborne #masks4All #bewareOfSharedAir #ventilation. See: its-airborne.org/covid19-timeli… via @AerosolizedC19

Airborne Transmission FAQ by experts: tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols
3/ In addition, here's Dr. @linseymarr and Dr. @jljcolorado's bibliography regarding "Transmission of COVID-19." They're top experts.
tinyurl.com/p4h9mbzz

"What We Know" 2021 summary: Respiratory plumes/short-range "close" exposure are <1.5 m (4.92 ft)
tinyurl.com/3sbktpzz
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19 Mar
1/ CDC revises guidance on 3 feet and 6 feet... A 🧵 stitching together so many updates today!

nytimes.com/2021/03/19/sci…
2/ A recent study in Boston found no significant differences in the # of infections in school districts in Massachusetts that adopted a 3-foot rule, when compared with those that required 6 feet of distance.

But there are problems with study. A few here:
3/ In reality, both 3 feet and 6 feet guidelines are arbitrary. Small airborne particles — that can be inhaled — travel either distance easily.

The farther away you are, the less likely you are to breathe in another's exhaled breath (and virions.)
tinyurl.com/2nzc67vr
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18 Mar
1/ NEW preprint finds bigtime under-reporting of COVID-19 in kids in NoVA.

8.5% of kids in INOVA/GMU study had COVID-19, but ⅔ were asymptomatic/didn't know it.

Higher infection rate found in kids than adults; MUST reconsider role of kids in epidemic.

tinyurl.com/34b26jce
2/ Significant risk factors included being Hispanic, living in a multifamily apartment building without a private entrance, not having health care access/insurance, and known exposure to a COVID+ family member.
3/ Early serology studies had indicated low rates of COVID-19 infections in kids, as low as 1%, or adults having much higher rates than kids.

So 8.5% of kids having had COVID-19 is a lot higher than expected.
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