COVID Positivity Rate Drops Among Students And Staff

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Of the 595,000 tests conducted at county schools between Jan. 9 and Jan. 15, 11% came back positive, a decrease from the 15% recorded the previous week. While there were 65,000 students and staff that tested positive in that time period, two elementary schools and one high school reported new outbreaks, indicating that the recent cases are from community transmission mostly within schools with active cases.

Guidelines require all infected students and staff to isolate for a minimum of five days, after which asymptomatic patients can return to the campus if they test negative on day five of their isolation. They must also wear a “high grade” mask at all times until 10 days after their positive test or from when their symptoms first appeared.

In L.A. County, officials reported 31,018 new cases with a positive rate of 16.9% in addition to 59 new deaths, one of whom was between the ages of 18 and 29. Most of the deaths, 56, were people older than 49 years old. Of the 59 deaths, 51 had underlying conditions.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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