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UPDATED: RI School List with COVID-19 Cases (as of 10/3/20)
October 8, 2020/
RI Dept. of Health updated cases in schools as of 10/3/20
Summary – this update – 272 locations – 268 cumulative cases
95 schools – 74 new cases – 154 total
77 virtual learning- 44 new cases – 114 total
Updated from Summary on 9/26 – 100 locations – 158 cumulative cases
57 schools – 50-54 new cases – 80-84 total
43 virtual learning- 30-34 new cases – 70-74 total
K-12 Testing Requests can be made here:
Testing is not mandatory. We know that this spike in RI directly correlates with the opening of schools. We also know that children can be asymptomatic and cause community spread, and that parents who send children to school are less likely to take time off of work to get children tested. Bottom line is that RI cases are out of control and the only thing that changed since September is that schools reopened. Action is required now. Either have mandatory in school testing, or go to remote learning, as is recommended by the CDC according to this number of cases. Action is required and lectures are not working.
Why “fewer than five?” Why is the real number obscured? What is the significance of “five?”
This is how the state lists numbers of cases under 5 – same with nursing homes and congregate care settings.