Florida has told local health officials not to release coronavirus data about public schools

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-orange-sept3-20200903-wanhmugklvbf7nnfehljb7qdsu-story.html

Local health officials are barred from releasing detailed information about new COVID-19 cases in public schools because of privacy rules, a local health official said Thursday.

The number of students and school staff who are infected — or whether infections are being transmitted in classrooms ― will no longer be released by health officials, Dr. Raul Pino, the state’s health officer in Orange County, said at a Thursday briefing.

That’s a departure from earlier this week when Pino released the number of cases associated with schools as well as the number of students and staff under precautionary quarantine and a list of affected schools.

On Monday he noted that the health department was investigating its first potential case of student-to-teacher transmission, critical information for parents as they decide whether to send their children to face-to-face classes in the midst of a global pandemic. But on Thursday, Pino said he couldn’t disclose any more details about that case and whether the health department had drawn a conclusion about how the transmission occurred.

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Move along. Nothing to see here.

[bluestarone]

1. IF i were a parent of kid in Florida

I would be SCREAMING at these motherfuckers!!

[SheltieLover]

2. Pulling a Tennessee?

Shitbag Gov Lee tried that in TN. As of this week, stats per district and per school will be released & posted weekly, with the exception of <5 cases. No reporting for those.

Sickening that they are so brazenly desperate to hide info that we are all entitled to!

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Schools, Doctors, & Hospitals Still Report...

...to county boards of health.
Several aggregators (NIH, Johns-Hopkins, Worldometer, et all) get the info direct from the counties.
While the exact location of infection source would be buried, the existence of the cases won't be, absent massive medical records fraud.
Example: there's nothing on IDPH, or the local paper about the infections from a school district about 10 miles south of us. But it's common knowledge that the town went from 46 to 64 infections in 2 weeks, and that 3 km D's tested positive. IDPH did show the 18 new cases over that time.
These people trying to hide the numbers are trying to push water up a hill.
The real numbers are getting out, every day.

[crickets]

4. Yep, and lies by omission just make the truth look worse. nt

[lpbk2713]

5. In other words ... "The public does NOT have the right to know."

And that is a crock of shit.