The Johnston County Public Health Department reported today (Monday) a COVID-19 cluster at Cleveland Elementary School.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) defines a cluster in a child care or school setting as a minimum of five confirmed diagnostic cases with illness onsets or initial positive results within a 14-day period and plausible epidemiologic linkage between cases.
JCPS has followed the Strong Schools NC Public Health Toolkit in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic at all of our sites, including frequent sanitizing and mask wearing.
Child care operators and school principals are required per G.S. 130A-136 to report suspected cases of reportable communicable diseases (including COVID-19) to the local health director of the county or district in which the school or facility is located.
NCDHHS further states that a cluster is considered over if there is no evidence of continued transmission within the setting. This is measured as 28 days after the latest date of onset in a symptomatic person or the latest date of specimen collection in an asymptomatic person, whichever is later. If another case is detected in a child care or school setting after a cluster is declared over, the cluster is not reopened. If additional cases are subsequently reported and a new cluster exists, it will be reported as a second, new cluster in that setting.
COVID-19 case and cluster investigations are conducted by local health departments. To find more information on COVID-19 clusters please visit the NCDHHS website.
So? COVID isn’t a big deal especially at 99% survival rate. Even the medical experts say kids aren’t spreaders. Stop making a big f**king deal about every single case.
Because it’s the law and some of us are actually concerned especially when we’ve lost someone from it. Why don’t you stop commenting on every topic and being so negative.
So nice living in your head rent free.
How about instead of worrying about what I do, worry about what your government does by taking away our freedoms over a virus that basically wasn’t a big of a deal as it was made out to be.