Coronavirus outbreaks tick upward in L.A. County schools
Los Angeles County recorded eight coronavirus outbreaks last week in its K-12 schools — up from three the previous week. The latest outbreaks led to 72 student infections, an increase from 40 the week before.
Many of the outbreaks are tied to athletic activities or because COVID-19 protocols were not followed. An outbreak is defined by linked cases involving three or more people in which transmission probably occurred at schools or school activities.Of 17 school outbreaks identified since the beginning of August, eight were tied to youth sports, and another eight to classrooms.
Between Aug. 15-29, among 1.5 million students and 200,000 staff members in Los Angeles County, there were 5,207 reports of coronavirus cases among students and 729 among staff. Still, it’s important to identify these cases so that infected people are removed from the classroom until they recover and are no longer contagious, she said.Even as many schools in L.A. County have reopened, the overall number of new coronavirus infections countywide has actually declined.
Los Angeles County’s school-aged children remain in a better position than children in other parts of the country. There are some parts of the nation where pediatric COVID-19 hospitalization rates are at the highest point in the pandemic.But in L.A. County, COVID-19 hospitalization rates for children are “nowhere near [what] they were during our winter surge,” Ferrer said.
The state, meanwhile, does not require a quarantine for the close contact if both the infected person and close contact were wearing masks during the entire time of exposure.
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