Washington schools have logged 182 COVID outbreaks this school year, says new report
But most of them are quite small, which is a really positive sign By Hannah Furfaro, The Seattle Times
Published: May 1, 2021, 9:02pm
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Washington has logged more than 182 coronavirus outbreaks in school buildings this school year, with a slim majority of school-linked infections in children and teenagers age 18 and younger, according to a new Department of Health report released Friday afternoon.
The findings generally fit with previous government reports about COVID-19 in Washington schools: a narrow majority of those who tested positive were children or young adults. And a majority of outbreaks involved a small number of cases, usually two to three, and sprung up in schools that were using in-person or hybrid learning models.