17,782 NEW COVID CASES OF STUDENTS/STAFF REPORTED FROM ALL 5 BOROUGHS OF NYC SCHOOLS AFTER 4 WEEKS OF SCHOOL.

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WPCNR CORONAVIRUS SURVEILLANCE. Statistics from NYC SCHOOLS TRACKER. UPDATED Observations and Analysis By John F. Bailey October 18, 2022 11:30 A.M. EDT”

Daily COVID Case Map

The map shows all known cases of COVID-19 at New York City public schools. It is updated Sunday through Friday at 6:00 PM. For detailed information about a school, click on the dot.

Each dot indicates that at least one positive case has been reported to the Situation Room at this school today. For more detailed information about a school’s cases, click on the dot.

https://ws.nycenet.edu/rts/publicportal

Situation Room Summary

The data below reflects Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks Stay Safe, Stay Open plan, a multi-pronged approach for safely returning to school in-person for NYC schools, which includes: 

  • Every student and adult in a classroom with a positive case will immediately receive an at-home rapid test kit and will need to take two tests in five days.
  • Making vaccination easily accessible and available for all, a vaccine mandate for all in-school staff members, physical distancing, and fully functioning ventilation systems backed up by two air purifiers in every classroom.
  • Read the Press release from January 3, 2022: Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor Banks Emphasize Health and Safety in Day One School Visits

Reported COVID Cases: October 18, 2022 as of 6 PM

TotalStudentsStaff
441285156

Cumulative Reported Cases: September 08, 2022 – October 18, 2022 at 6 PM

TotalStudentsStaff
17,78211,7416,041

Observation by WPCNR: As of the start of the New York City Public School Year, 2022-23 there were 164,983 students enrolled . The staff of the public school account for 51% of the infections, students 49%. The infection rate for the reported 164,982 students, with 17,782 infections computes to an infection rate of 11%

At the start of the school year, Westchester County had 255 K-12 public schools enrolling 143.392 students. School Districts are not publishing the numbers of students in their schools who have caught covid. If the school environments in Westchester (no compulsory precautions, open environment), are the same as New York City schools which are infecting at 11%, one might, might expect Westchester as a whole to have after 4 weeks of school 15,773 students and staff come down with covid.

Of course, there’s no way we can know what the number is if the School Superintendents do not tell us.

Students and staffs may be as low as 2% which would give the school pupil and staff population in Westchester 2,827 covid infections, which would add to the 1,000 a week Westchester is already reporting.

Still that puts 3,000 infected students and staff out there with a spread rate of 1 infected person giving covid to one other person every two days due to the fast, fast, fast transmission history of the bivalient strain.

Even a 2% infection rate doubles infections weekly in Westchester. Need I say that the County needs to give us demographics by age to see where the population trend is.

Currently Westchester is running 1,000 new cases a week. If we see that start to grow, it will mean more infections in November and December, repeating last year growth infections.

In New York City those 17,000 infections in four weeks may double infections in a week. The four weeks of school in New York City, the public schools in their entirety in all five boroughs, have averaged 4.445 infections a week, four times Westchester County weekly average of 1,,200.

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