Coronavirus: Are schools having outbreaks? Good luck finding out

SARATOGA, CA – MARCH 13: A caution tape was placed for parents picking up their children to wait behind at Marshall Lane Elementary School in Saratoga, on March 13, 2020. Parents picked up their children at the school on Friday, after they were informed that a volunteer at the school had tested positive for coronavirus. The school, like all other public schools in Santa Clara County, will be closed starting Monday but the school provided parents the opportunity to also pick their children up early on Friday. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) As California’s summer surge of coronavirus cases fades and more schools transition from online distance learning to in-class instruction, it’s likely some students and teachers will be infected. And there’s no guarantee the public will find out about it. Weeks after classrooms began reopening across the country, there’s been little comprehensive information about how many have had outbreaks — and California is one of a number of states saying they aren’t planning to release such information. Instead, parents are being left to rely on scattered news accounts that give little sense of how prevalent clusters of infections are among students and teachers. “A lack of information for […]

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