Coronavirus Stats, School Edition: Tracking Outbreaks In NYC Education

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Average daily new cases have more than quadrupled since the start of winter recess, the highest this school year. Classroom closures plummeted after the DOE opted to provide students with at-home tests following exposure instead of closing classes.

From September through December, elementary school-age children had the highest case rate in the city., which allows unvaccinated children to opt out of routine tests and attend school in person. Just one-third of students have returned testing consent forms, according to data shared by the education department in late December.

Children ages 5-11 became eligible for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on November 2nd. As of December 20th, about 27% of children in this age group have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to city data. Data for New Jersey schools is more limited: The state only reports a comprehensive count of positive COVID test results linked to in-school transmission, aggregated by county. The New Jersey Department of Health has recorded more than 2,200 school-linked cases across 384 outbreaks since classes began on September 7th.For the first few months of the 2021-2022 school year, classrooms partially or completely closed after a student or staff member tested positive for COVID.

As a result, closures have plummeted. On January 6th, just 4 classrooms were partially closed and another 20 were completely closed, out of about 58,500 classrooms in the education department’s building surveys. So far this school year, 17 schools have closed their doors. The city’s health department says an entire school building will only close when there is evidence of “widespread transmission,” but

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