CORONAVIRUS: 8 new local cases in weekly Seattle Public Schools update

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West Seattle/South Park has eight new cases reported in this week’s update of the COVID-19 dashboard for Seattle Public Schools. That’s out of 67 new cases districtwide – students and staff – since last week’s update. Here’s the local school-by-school breakout (as always, the total is cumulative since the start of the school year):

Denny International Middle School – 24, unchanged
Chief Sealth International High School – 20, unchanged
Roxhill Elementary – 15, unchanged
Genesee Hill Elementary – 14, up 3
Arbor Heights Elementary – 14, up 1
Highland Park Elementary – 13, unchanged
Madison Middle School – 11, unchanged
Louisa Boren STEM K-8 – 10, unchanged
Lafayette Elementary – 10, unchanged
Concord International (Elementary) – 9, up 1
West Seattle Elementary – 9, up 1
Gatewood Elementary – 9, unchanged
Pathfinder K-8 – 6, up 1
West Seattle High School – 6, unchanged
Fairmount Park Elementary – 5, unchanged
Alki Elementary – 5, unchanged
Sanislo Elementary – 4, unchanged

BRIDGES @ Roxhill – 1, unchanged

Douglas Greenswag December 14, 2021 (6:38 am)

This is interesting but incomplete data. It would be more insightful if the data on cases in the schools also included information on whether any of the students were hospitalized, how many of the students were vaccinated and how many, if any, of the vaccinated students were hospitalized. Numbers of positive tests does not provide much information about the effectiveness of vaccinations or the extent to which the claim that younger people get milder cases can be supported. I expect there are other data points that would be worth having as well. Perhaps the schools cannot get/provide this information but it seems to me that we get an incomplete picture most of the time.