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@Watching_CCSD obtained last week's school-by-school data via ORR. My analysis will be in this thread. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… 32 ES have exceeded 100 students infected this school year. 0.97% of Cobb ES students were infected last week (482 students). This is a decline.

I find the new push from some Conservative pols to remove vax requirements from schools disturbing. Our schools are intimately connected to public health in the US. Vax requirements for schooling are far from new. Exemptions, though, do not have a long history. Schools have even been sites of vax distribution.

Updated % of enrollment, in light of the more detailed data obtained by @Watching_CCSD
1/6-13/2022 1.33% of ES students infected
1/14-20/2022 1.77% of ES students infected 1/6-13/2022 1.17% of MS students infected
1/14-20/2022 1.77% of ES students infected

Ok, looking at the staff vs. student data now. Remember, there is not a clear, easily accessible staffing number. The most common estimate I see is 18,000, but that's probably too high but a few thousand. Let's look at %s infected. Student 12/17-23: 0.16% of enrollment 106,908
Student 12/24-30: 0.03% of enrollment 106,908
Student 12/31-1/5: 0.54% of enrollment 106,908
Student 1/6-1/13: 1.23% of enrollment 106,908
Student 1/14-1/20: 1.42% of enrollment 106,908

@Watching_CCSD has obtained via ORR @CobbSchools COVID data for schools through 1/20/2022. You can review here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… 40 Cobb ES were hotspots last week, that is, had more than 10 cases: Acworth, Addison, Austell, Baker, Bells Ferry, Blackwell, Brumby, Chalker, Cheatham Hill, Davis, Dowell, Due West, East Side, Eastvalley, Ford, Frey, Garrison Mill, Green Acres, Hayes, Kemp, Kennesaw,

A friend gave me permission to share her story. She is an educator and I believe she has publicly shared her story before, but I'm not going to name her or her district. If it sounds familiar, don't out her. My friend is a Millennial. She grew up in the era of vaccination and is a strong advocate for vaccination. But, due to an allergy she cannot have the pertussis part of the DTaP vaccine series. She's had to have a medical waiver since she was a preschooler. Even for uni.

'According to the Cobb and Douglas Public Health, Cobb and Douglas Counties are experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases due to the ongoing spread of the Delta and omicron variants.' wabe.org/chair-of-the-c… 'On Thursday, Cobb Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid extended the county’s pandemic state of emergency declaration to mid-February.'

Cobb school district updates COVID info for first time in a month as group obtains backlogged data 11alive.com/article/news/e… 'COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Cobb County School District on Friday updated its COVID-19 case data for the first time in more than a month, as a group obtained the backlogged data and posted it to Twitter.'

Ok, time for another deep dive. Let's look cases as % of enrollment This is per data from the state available here and the spreadsheet made available by @Watching_CCSD : app3.doe.k12.ga.us/ows-bin/owa/ft… If we assume that all reported ES cases are students (it is stated as staff+students, more on that later), 10.52% of Cobb Elementary School students have tested positive for COVID at some point during the 2021-2022 school year.

'When you adjust the numbers by school enrollment, it's only 0.0#% of a school' What's the big deal? The big deal is the numbers aren't just numbers, they are real people. Real kids. Real teachers. Real people sick. Real people who face lifelong complications we don't fully know Real people who bring it home to family. In Cobb, at least one family lost its mother and a grandparent after a child brought the infection home.

Ok, thank you, @Watching_CCSD!!! They have obtained through ORR the numbers Cobb didn't post. I'm doing a deep dive. This is my 3rd attempt---I lost the VERY long thread twice. Fingers crossed! Ok, first, let's talk cumulative. Last year (2020-2021), the cumulative total was 5224. With the missing data and this week's data, our new cumulative is 11542. Which would mean last year's numbers are only 45% of this year's---and the year isn't finished yet!

1,854 cases in one week. No data for the prior weeks since 12/18. This represents 89.13% of Cobb county cases for 5-17, 4.56% of state cases for 5-17, and an increase of 913.11% from last report on 12/17. tNew cumulative (excluding the missing weeks): 8563

https://twitter.com/RebeccaGaunt/status/1484559473574178820

This is higher than prior high on 8/27/21 of 1033 by 821 cases, a 79.48% increase. This week's cases represent 21.65% of the cumulative total, excluding the missing data. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Yesterday, Ragsdale claimed that we (Cobb) peaked on 1/5, but really 1/1. Since the district has not released numbers since 12/17, there is no way to verify this. He could be referring to 5-17 year olds only, the state, or Cobb as a whole. I decided to look at the 5-17 data for Cobb and the state to see if there is any truth to his claim. Spoiler: Nope.

I lied. Sorry. Someone texted me in panic---Ragsdale claims district peaked on 1/5, but really 1/1. Reporting will change. No details other than there will be no numbers after Omicron Ragsdale's claim of peak cannot be verified, as district has not posted data since 12/17.

I'm going to go full out and say it: Teacher working conditions are students' learning conditions. If teachers are saying it isn't safe? It isn't safe. As someone who lives in a state that legally blocks teachers from unionizing, let alone striking, THANK YOU, @CTULocal1 Those teachers know that, with even 10% of their colleagues out sick (and, admit it, at least that many will actually get sick enough to miss work), their own students will not get the support and services they need.

For, not with. 'On Tuesday, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta reported 101 children hospitalized for COVID-19, the most the system has seen at one time since the start of the pandemic.' ajc.com/news/coronavir… 'At 5 p.m. Tuesday, 3,938 people in Georgia were hospitalized for COVID-19, or more than quadruple the number reported on Thanksgiving Day.' ajc.com/news/coronavir…

Maybe it is just me, but I can't figure out how to tell what of this is 1/3 and what is 1/4. Is this just 1/3 data? I feel like the % positive seems too low, but I guess it was just SO many tests done?

I think it's time to do a little deep dive into what CTLS is currently and what teachers tell me they use it for. This will be a long thread and it will probably not justify the expenditure. Pics from CTLS were taken by an anon source and any identifying info is hidden or removed CTLS was sold by Ragsdale as an all-encompassing CMS and LMS. It was intended to be fully functional and do many different things well. It existed before COVID, but was ramped up with CARES Act money.

Funny, he told the @ajc he couldn't remember how the contract amending even came up: 'The superintendent’s contract, our intent there was to give him some stability and a little bit of reassurance that he is not going to be inappropriately dismissed' mdjonline.com/news/randy-sca… @ajc This is literally not true: 'The maps are a requirement, and an important requirement to make sure that, as population increases or decreases, people are appropriately represented.'

@washingtonpost had a piece that claimed to discuss the terrible fallout from virtual/closures in Europe. Except...well...the cited study? Didn't come to those conclusions. 'Importantly and in contrast to expectations, we find little evidence of widening learning gaps' @washingtonpost The referenced paper: osf.io/preprints/soca…