Schools with Covid 19 cases in UK

[guilttripjourno]

Just saw this tweet.

Numbers climbing especially for England

100 UK Schools with Coronavirus infections in its population

• Wales 1
• England 11
• N. Ireland 15
• Scotland 73

twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1301599811863539713?s=20

Is this an official statistic or a twitter one?

Apparently there are '5,046 schools in Scotland, including 2,544 early learning centres, 2,012 primary schools, 357 secondary schools and 133 special schools.'

Schools in our area haven't gone back yet

I havent quite worked out what when and who isolates and fir what reason...

Well of course there were going to be cases. Just as there have been cases in restaurants/pubs when they opened up, and in workplaces when they reopened, etc.
What’s important is that they’re identified and dealt with.

Right. Do you have any reputable links or just a tweet written by some random person that has no basis in fact?

From a Twitter handle. The person adds schools based on news / info. Anyways we do it have any official stats for this. Remember testing stats.

I’m sorry that u posted this. I don’t think it is helpful to all the parents out there who are already worried and stressed.
This kind of thread is going to make it worse

@Paranoidmarvin So do you think people shouldn't be able to post stuff in case it worries people? That's not really the reality we're living in.

I'm a teacher in Scotland. Every single school around mine currently has a class off isolating with covid. It's obviously going to be my school soon. I'm not exactly thrilled about this. I'm sorry if it scares you, but that's the reality that children and adults in schools are facing.

Gosh if that’s true it’s a bit scary. 73 in Scotland !

Very questionable source

Sorry if this increases anxiety. Parents have been put in a difficult situation. If facts come out at least parents can make informed choices instead of just following the government blindly.

From an account called "Tory Fibs" ?
ok, whatever. BJ makes my skin crawl, but that doesn't mean I like this source.
I wonder if Tory?Fibs is ClmbDad. or if guilttripjourno is ClimbDad.

It's very scary if you are a teacher or teaching assistant.

Most schools in England only went back yesterday or today? So those 11 cases are irrelevant to the schools going back really aren't they because they obviously didn't get it or spread it at school.

So what? What do you expect the results of that information to be? What exactly would you like us to do!

73 for Scotland sounds about right, given what I hear on the Scottish news each day.
I assume the English cases will be lower as you've only just gone back.

I think people are forgetting quickly that many people strenuously denied that children could catch or spread it at all

A friend’s child minders have just confirmed a case....all being told to self isolate!

@Paranoidmarvin

I’m sorry that u posted this. I don’t think it is helpful to all the parents out there who are already worried and stressed. This kind of thread is going to make it worse

I disagree.

The government should put out reliable info and then it wouldn't be a surprise.

If this is expected and fine, there's no reason not to tell people.

If this is not expected and not fine, the public need to know.

Hold on.... surely this is about what you would expect just from kids picking it up from their family/community contacts anyway.

Eg Scotland has 100 cases (ish) a day the past week. Assuming they are equally spread across ages, so no extra spread from schools, then about 15 a day should be school age kids.

Multiply by the 2 weeks quarantine period and you get 210 students with coronavirus without any special spread in school environment. So if anything 73 schools sounds on the low side to me.

Now this is only rough assumptions but it agrees with what Scotland saw in the last few weeks. The proportion of of coronavirus cases that are children didn’t go up once schools reopened. Children are being infected via their community contacts, family etc, NOT via school transmission. So far at least.

@letsghostdance there are parts of Scotland that are worse than others. Our part is fine. Glasgow is bad but it’s down to community transmission. Other areas have schools open without additional problems(yet).

Big wow. What did you expect?

@Hangingbasketofdoom

I think people are forgetting quickly that many people strenuously denied that children could catch or spread it at all

Ah yes - teachers remember those days. We said children ( especially those teenagers bigger than us) could catch it and that we didn't believe that schools had a magical anti-covid protection spell.

We were told we were lazy and just trying to stay at home and drink wine all day long.

If you are going to stick a load of people in a room together without wearing masks or really socially distancing and those people are going to ignore social distancing before and after entering the room ( so before and after school ) does anyone seriously think that cases are not going to increase ?

So?

That seems pretty low to me, which is good news I would hope

Exactly this. Why doesn't the govt publish these stats. As for transmission in schools, 2 schools in Glasgow have been confirmed as in school transmission.