A few school districts in SoCal has been open for full in person since mid-summer. At one, the district office is doing ~600 tests/day (antigen & PCR) for staff and students. Dashboard shows 250+ communicable cases on campus in 4 wks since reopening for full in person learning.
Following CDPH guidance schools are targeting close contacts for quarantine. With so many cases, principals, nurses, teachers, secretaries must spend most of the day doing COVID related work - collecting close contacts, making notifications, going over quarantine options (3!).
Is there transmission? K-12 outbreaks are reported without naming schools. CA schools require universal masking & have good (unwieldy)guidance. Turning school staff into contact tracers/case investigators not sustainable. Data w/a couple of districts open sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sd… 
Schools need to hire people w/experience to help schools with tracing, testing (some are doing on site), & to liaison w/ public health. Many schools won't be able to manage what is necessary in Delta surge to keep schools open for full in person learning.
What do the school COVID dashboards capture? Communicable cases on campus - the vast majority of those cases acquired the infection in the community. Outbreaks capture transmission in the setting (a classroom for example).
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