School started a few weeks ago. Schools have still given students the option of attending in person, virtual distance learning or home schooling.
As for testing, most of the testing sites were shut down and one large testing site has re-opened.
Since our county had a low rate of positivity, I can only attribute the increase in people actually contracting COVID to people spreading the virus through vaccination and the influx of people moving into the area.
Wow. Your schools open well before ours (10 days ago).
There is nothing like having one place everyone who suspects they might have the bug or is required to be tested can congregate and share germs, but I suspect an influx of people might bring the bug with it.
In counties with small populations, a few cases can be presented as huge rates (cases/some number that exceeds the population), we see that in ND, where the cases can be presented as a rate per ten thousand people in a county with just a couple of thousand residents, and the front number is 5X (or more) the actual number of cases.
The other question is one of whether the tests are accurate, or if there is contamination of samples that might otherwise prove negative.
