ICYMI: As part of a broader rollback in what outbreak data will be posted online, Colorado is no longer going to report COVID outbreaks at schools.
The health agency said schools still should notify families of any outbreaks that arise, but representatives for state and local teachers unions expressed concerns over whether the lack of publicly accessible data could hamper districts’ efforts to respond quickly to a surge in coronavirus cases — or even parents’ ability to judge whether they want their children to wear masks at school.
, reducing the scenarios in which students and employees had to quarantine after exposure to the virus and letting districts end their contact tracing efforts.
Her recollection was the health department changed the number of cases that make up an outbreak from five to a “cluster,” which doesn’t require a specific count of infections. “The definition of an outbreak in a school at this point is any increase of a baseline ,” Stringer said.Administrators at Denver Public Schools, the state’s largest school district, “were aware there was some discussion at the state level” of ending publicly reporting outbreak data, but they didn’t know it had been finalized when it was rolled out this week, spokesman Scott Pribble said.
“CDPHE plans to update school guidance to encourage schools to communicate with parents and guardians about how they plan to communicate case outbreak status to their students and families,” said Therese Pilonetti, education setting expert lead for the health department, in a statement.Outbreaks at schools have dropped in recent months as children are on summer break, but during a peak in March they made up 419 — or 37% — of the 1,130 active outbreaks listed on the state’s.
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