The State newspaper reports today the DHEC numbers for COVID-19 in South Carolina elementary, middle and high schools. See the newspaper article here.
Six Richland 2 schools are included, all with less than five new cases each among students and staff.
For the week this is the result, as reported by The State: "The 532 cases include 352 students and 180 employees":
The State fails miserably by not putting the numbers in context by including the total number of elementary and secondary students and faculty statewise. A frame of reference is necessary to determine how serious a number like "532" is.
Richland 2 alone has more than 28,000 students and more than 3,000 staff, doesn't it?
Adjusting the numbers from the article in The State
- Catawba Trail Elementary: 1-5 faculty cases
- Forest Lake Elementary: 1-5 faculty cases
- L.B. Nelson Elementary: 1-5 student cases
- Muller Road Middle: 1-5 faculty cases
- Richland Northeast High: 1-5 student cases
- Spring Valley High: 1-5 student cases and 1-5 faculty cases
- Windsor Elementary: 1-5 faculty cases
So Richland 2 could have between new 3-15 student cases and new 5-25 employee cases.
Aren't we in the "mostly survivable" situation, as one parent put it recently in a comment read to the board?
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