Los Angeles County Health Department officials today released the first data on Covid cases during the first week of school: In the 24 hours between Tuesday at 8 a.m and Wednesday at 8 a.m, the Los…
The district required students and staff to undergo Covid-19 testing, baseline screening conducted in the two weeks before school. Those testsThat’s equivalent to another full day of cases for L.A. County, which has been reporting around 3,000-3,500 new cases every 24 hours, of late, according to County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer.
According to statistics released late Monday, the first day of fall classes in the LAUSD, roughly 81% of the district’s students underwent baseline Covid testing between Aug. 2-15, and 3,255 of them tested positive for the virus. That’s a testing-positivity rate of roughly 0.8%. That was far below the countywide positivity rate of 3.5% on Monday, but could change as
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