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Aug 27, 2021 · Josh Rayburn. Aug 27, 2021 Updated Dec 1, 2021. 0. Lauderdale County school buses. Three Lauderdale County School System schools are temporarily shifting to hybrid schedules due to coronavirus....
Dec 17, 2020 · FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida’s health department has posted its latest list of verified COVID-19 cases among students and staff at primary and secondary schools across the state
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7-Day Average ( Jul 23) In Lauderdale County, there were 0 newly reported COVID-19 cases and 0 newly reported COVID-19 deaths on Jul 23, 2023. How is Lauderdale County faring against COVID-19, both overall and at a state level? Get the answers here, with data on cases and infection rates.
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Aug 20, 2021 · Due to increasing COVID-19 cases, the Lauderdale County School District is requiring masks for the next three weeks. The school board voted 4-1 Thursday night on the mandate, which will...
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On March 19, 2021, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.
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Although COVID-19 can and does occur in school settings, the results of these analyses indicate that in Florida, 60% of COVID-19 cases in school-aged children were not school-related, <1% of registered students were identified as having school-related COVID-19, and <11% of K–12 schools reported outbreaks. These findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that COVID-19 transmission does not appear to be demonstrably more frequent in schools than in noneducational settings (2). Temporal trends in the United States also indicate that among school-aged children, school-based transmission might be no higher than transmission outside the school setting (3,4); the limited in-school transmission observed in Florida has also been observed in other states (5) and countries (6).
Success in preventing the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into schools depends upon controlling community transmission and adhering to mitigation measures in schools, particularly masking, physical distancing, testing, and increasing room air ventilation (2,4,7). Where feasible, supporting family choice for remote versus in-person learning likely reduces in-school crowding and facilitates better physical distancing in schools. In Florida, a large proportion of school-related outbreaks was observed among social gatherings and extracurricular sporting activities. Household transmission and social gatherings might pose a higher risk for infection among school-aged children than does school attendance (8). School sports and other extracurricular activities in which masking and physical distancing are difficult or impossible to achieve should be postponed, particularly during periods of high community transmission (2,9).
The findings in this report are subject to at least six limitations. First, because data on the number of teachers and staff members statewide or by county were not available, rates of total school-related cases could not be calculated; instead, the number of student cases per 100,000 registered students was used. Second, screening testing was generally not done in most schools, therefore, asymptomatic infections might have been underascertained. Third, classification of school-related cases, contacts, and outbreaks was dependent on thorough case interviews and might have been incomplete, relative to the overall number of cases in school-aged children. Fourth, although the operational definition used for school-related cases was likely sensitive, it does not ensure that all persons with school-related cases acquired infection in the school setting because infections might have been acquired elsewhere. Fifth, limited data were available at the school district level on some mitigation measures, such as mask use in schools, so these mitigation measures could not be fully assessed. Finally, results should be interpreted with caution because most students in the largest school districts did not resume in-person education for the first part of the analysis period.
These findings provide further evidence that resumption of school can likely be achieved without the rapid disease spread observed in congregate living facilities or high-density worksites. Both community-level and school-based measures to prevent spread of disease are essential to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in school settings (10).
1.Florida Department of Education. Coronavirus (COVID-19). Tallahassee, FL: Florida Department of Education; 2021. http://www.fldoe.org/em-response/index.stmlexternal icon
2.Honein MA, Barrios LC, Brooks JT. Data and policy to guide opening schools safely to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection. JAMA 2021. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.0374external icon PMID:33497433external icon
3.Leeb RT, Price S, Sliwa S, et al. COVID-19 trends among school-aged children—United States, March 1–September 19, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020;69:1410–5. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6939e2external icon PMID:33001869external icon
4.Leidman E, Duca LM, Omura JD, Proia K, Stephens JW, Sauber-Schatz EK. COVID-19 trends among persons aged 0–24 years—United States, March 1–December 12, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:88–94. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7003e1external icon PMID:33476314external icon
5.Zimmerman KO, Akinboyo IC, Brookhart MA, et al.; ABC Science Collaborative. Incidence and secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infections in schools. Pediatrics 2021. Epub March 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-048090external icon PMID:33419869external icon
6.Ismail SA, Saliba V, Lopez Bernal J, Ramsay ME, Ladhani SN. SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in educational settings: a prospective, cross-sectional analysis of infection clusters and outbreaks in England. Lancet Infect Dis 2021;21:344–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30882-3external icon PMID:33306981external icon
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The number ofhospitalized Covid patientshas fallen in the Lauderdale County area. Deathshave remained at about the same level. The test positivity ratein Lauderdale County is high. An...
Aug 16, 2021 · By WSFA 12 News Staff. Published: Aug. 16, 2021 at 3:31 PM PDT | Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 4:18 PM PDT. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - As of Thursday, school districts in Alabama had reported 5,970...
