Dr. Naor Bar-Zeev, associate professor at John Hopkins' Department of International Health, on timelines for a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Elementary schools across the district have the most cases at 26.
Ousted Florida COVID-19 dashboard manager joins virtual town hall to talk cases in schools.
Dashboard. Orange County Public Schools' new dashboard shows 114 staff and students have tested positive for coronavirus since classes resumed. Osceola County Public Schools began releasing a spreadsheet of cases and those in quarantine the first week of September. The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly.
Caitlin Rivers, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, is an expert in the science of pandemics and infectious disease modeling, and has become an influential voice as the COVID-19 pandemic soldiers on. In Central Florida, some school districts have been reporting how many are told to quarantine per school while other districts are reporting only general numbers district-wide.
INFO: Florida Department of Health.
According to the DOH, the department now does not plan to release data related to school cases and it will be up to the school districts. If you need help with the Public File, call 407-291-6000. cases and quarantines at the end of August. Brevard Public Schools began publishing a dashboard of cases connected to school campuses on Sept. 11. Olympia High School due to at least six positive cases, will transition to LaunchEd@Home learning for two weeks. DASHBOARD: Florida Data + Surveillance.
Nine other schools in the district have students or staff in quarantine, according to district officials. Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, associate dean for faculty and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on a second public health revolution.
The COVID-19 dashboard launched on Monday.
The Department of Health has notified 560 students and 76 staff members of possible exposure to the virus connected and asked them to quarantine, according to OCPS. Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said the school in Osceola County that closed was due to a lack of substitute teachers able to replace those who tested positive. Arturo Casadevall, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the debate over convalescent plasma as an effective treatment for COVID-19.