I realized that cases of COVID-19 in schools were more widespread than I had initially thought. It was shocking to me that as far as I could see, no one else was compiling this information on schools.
My spreadsheet logging COVID-19 cases in K-12 schools in the U.S. really started out of curiosity. I was seeing a lot of news articles shared on social media about schools that had already re-opened in places like Georgia and Indiana, and I was seeing in these news articles that there were cases of kids getting sick with COVID-19. I just wondered to myself how widespread this was and whether it was confined to the few schools I had read about in the news articles I had seen.
The cases can include anyone who is connected to the school building: students, teachers, administrators, superintendents, cafeteria workers, bus drivers or custodians. Essentially anyone who would be considered employed by the school district or is a student of that school district. People have asked me to add the percent positive rates for each state or what measures are being put in place in each state to mitigate the virus, but I just haven't had time. I'm receiving up to 600 articles per day covering different COVID-19 cases at schools across different states.
People in many states have been really grateful to have access to this information and we were all shocked to see the scope of the cases across the U.S. A lot of teachers have thanked me for putting this together, but they have also said that it's sad I have to be the one to do it. This spreadsheet was partly to help inform and assist making those data based decisions. Of course, I would urge all school districts to make data informed decisions of their reopening plan. My own school board has responded and thanked me for the resource.
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