School has more cases now than peak

[Northernsoulgirl45]

Just wondering if anyone is the same.

When schools were fully open and we were tier 4 we had 0 school cases.
This month alone there have been 4 cases.
Wtf is going on? Hardly any kids in school although get there are more high risk kids. No idea if cases are kids or adults
Has anyone else noticed this?

My school have had a few cases these past few weeks, but that’s nothing to the 60-70 cases we had before Christmas. That really was dreadful, although luckily the vast majority are fully recovered. Hopefully it’ll stay that way or continue to improve. I’m hoping schools returning will not push us back to what it was.

Are they testing more at the school now? You may have had cases before in tier 4 but if they weren't tested you wouldn't know.

We had a breakdown in a letter yesterday which I thought was odd. 2 cases when whole school in sept - dec... But 8 from march to July and 1 since january.

Thank you @Totallyfedup1979
I guess I need to put a different spin on this. We were clearly exceptionally lucky to avoid cases before Christmas.
I really feel fir you with that many cases. Our kids Secondary had lots before Christmas too but the Primary escaped with 0.

Nope @EndoplasmicReticulum as it's a Primary. Agree though that there probably were cases before Christmas.

Our school had one bubble closure in October, and one in January.

Remember though, it's the KW children that are in school, with parents working outside the home, so more likely to be in contact with CV than the general population.

It's the new variant. It's more transmissible

We had very few cases Sep-Dec then some staff got really unwell over Christmas, and are still too ill to work. Think it was the variant getting going as it mirrored a big community uptick locally.

My daughter’s still home school learning so wouldn’t know.

I think it's just luck. If a case gets into your school, it will spread among whoever is in contact with it - even if that's only a small KW bubble. If a case doesn't get into your school, it can't spread - even if you're in an area of very high transmission and the school is full of children with no covid safety measures.

There hasn't bee a single case in my school from last Feb to this Feb (that we know of, obviously). We've been in both Tier 1 and Tier 4. We have some natural advantages (small school, lots of outdoor space) but our Covid measures have not been particularly good and we've allowed a lot of things that most schools wouldn't have. So I just think we've been lucky so far.

There were a number of cases picked up in teachers in my DC’s school in the week prior to Christmas - private primary that has its own testing machine and which has been testing teachers since September. However, there was only one case in a pupil. I suspect that there were loads of asymptomatic cases. My own DCs had a slight snotty nose before Christmas which is indicative of the Kent strain, although not currently a valid reason for testing.

B1117 variant much more transmissible & slightly more lethal. Evidence internationally that it is spreading through schools much more readily. Pre-Christmas it was localised in the U.K. but it is now the dominant strain across the U.K. so March 8 will be interesting experiment...

Thank you for replies.

Sounds like a good time to send 10 million back to daily mass gatherings to me.