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The information provided by the state on Monday includes K-12, college and university school name, address, number of cases and if the cases involved staff, students or both. Students or staff exposed to COVID-19 outside the school building and are not thought to have spread the virus in the school due to quarantine or self-isolation are not included in the data.
Many factors, including the lack of ability to conduct effective contact tracing in certain settings, may result in underreporting of outbreaks, MDHHS said. This information does not provide a complete picture of school outbreaks in Michigan and the absence of identified outbreaks in a school does not mean it is not experiencing an outbreak.
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Macomb County schools experienced a large bump in coronavirus cases last week, half of which came from parochial or private schools.
Macomb County schools reported 20 new cases of school-related coronavirus in seven schools last week, a time period from Dec. 14-20. That number is an increase over the four cases reported for the week of Dec. 7-13, and zero cases the week of Nov. 30-Dec. 6.
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The schools making reports to the Macomb County Health Department and then the state Department of Health and Human Services include:
â¢Â Glen H Peters School in Macomb Township, a cognitive impairments program run by the Macomb Intermediate School District, with two cases reported by staff.