EPIC IN THE NEWS
This is the best available count of COVID-19 cases in Michigan schools. Here’s what it means.
DATE: February 17, 2021
With a new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 appearing in Michigan, data from the fall have a limited ability to predict how safe classrooms will be now.
In any case, researchers who looked at the safety of Michigan classrooms during the fall didn’t even use these numbers.
Instead, they tracked how COVID-19 moved through communities, then linked those numbers with school reopenings. Two papers that used a version of this method — including one focused on Michigan — found that reopening schools didn’t accelerate the spread of COVID-19 in communities, as long as cases were low or moderate (below 21 daily cases per 100,000 people, according to one estimate).
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