Students and teachers in the San Diego Unified School District have been back in school now for more than two weeks. A check on the number of COVID-19 cases shows the semester is going well, but COVID is still in the schools.
Between Aug. 28 to Sept. 3, the first week of school, there were 393 COVID cases district-wide, including students and staff, according to the district. That is less than half of 1% of students and staff in all schools in the district.
There were 714 cases the next week of school, still less than 1%. That appears to be almost double, but the number is based on incomplete data, according to Susan Barndollar, the Executive Director of Nursing and Wellness for the district. “The first week of school we did not know everybody who was out because of COVID or had a community test. It’s that second week of school we were able to get all the information," Barndollar said.