{"id":1558,"date":"2021-09-01T09:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2021-09-01T09:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:08:50","slug":"have-there-been-any-school-associated-outbreaks-in-maryland-this-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Have there been any school-associated outbreaks in Maryland this school year?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Question:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>With some schools in Maryland already opened, have there been any school-associated outbreaks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0The Maryland Department of Health keeps a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\/pages\/school-resources\">table of school-associated COVID outbreaks<\/a>\u00a0for public and non-public K-12 schools in the state.\u00a0 As of writing, the table was most recently updated on 8\/25.\u00a0 In the state, there are currently 18 schools with at least 2 confirmed cases of COVID among teachers and\/or students that are epidemiologically linked, but not household contacts.\u00a0 Of the 18 schools, 14 have only 2 confirmed epidemiologically linked cases, respectively.\u00a0 A high school in Montgomery County has the largest outbreak with 24 students\/teachers having testing positive.\u00a0 These data are updated weekly around 10am on Wednesdays.\u00a0 According to the website, &#8220;Schools are removed from the list when health officials determine 14 days have passed with no new cases and no tests pending.&#8221;\u00a0 As a reminder,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/schools-childcare\/k-12-guidance.html\">implementation of layered prevention strategies<\/a>, including universal masking, helps keep kids and teachers safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0With some schools in Maryland already opened, have there been any school-associated outbreaks? Answer:\u00a0The Maryland Department of Health keeps a\u00a0table of school-associated COVID outbreaks\u00a0for public and non-public K-12 schools in the state.\u00a0 As of writing, the table was most recently updated on 8\/25.\u00a0 In the state, there are currently 18 schools with at least 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85,13,47],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","category-school","category-states","tag-maryland","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-photo-3731256.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}