The CDC researchers studied 17 schools in a rural Wisconsin county and found that students and staff had a lower COVID-19 rate than Wood County overall, 3,453 compared with 5,466 per 100,000 people. At 73,000, the population of the whole county is comparable to the number of CPS students who opted in for the first two waves. During a 13-week period examined in the Wisconsin study, 191 cases were identified among students and staff members, with only seven linked to transmission in school, according to the report: “Despite widespread community transmission, COVID-19 incidence in schools conducting in-person instruction was 37% lower than that in the surrounding community.”
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