Dr. Giancarlo Pezzino may not have a “magic solution” for Shawnee County’s school districts, but he does have a magic formula that will help them decide when to close and open schools. The Shawnee County Health Department will begin publishing a weekly “scorecard” grading the rate of COVID-19 spread in the community to help area school districts determine when to move between in-person and remote operations, Pezzino told the Topeka Board of Education Thursday evening. The department will announce more details on the weekly updates at a Friday morning press conference. Every Thursday, department officials will start issuing a report that will look at COVID-19 indicators over the past two weeks, like the average number and trend of new cases in the county, the percentage of positive tests out of all tests performed, percentage of cases with no known source of infection, hospital capacity and public health system capacity.
Source: Local News | Topeka Capital-Journal
