We are in a precarious position where we can't safely send them to school because the community case rate is so high across the country there is a known risk of our child getting exposed. We have a child who is too young to be vaccinated. The reason I have an interest in what's going on at LAUSD and even New York City schools is because what they do ends up having a ripple effect across the country. What prompted you to start pulling the LAUSD data yourself and posting it on Twitter? We talked to Caballero about why it was important to release this cumulative data. That is the strictest testing protocol of any major school district in the nation. LAUSD has such robust data about positive cases because it requires every staff member and student to be tested weekly, regardless of their vaccination status. "None of this would have been possible without him." She quickly realized how monumental the task was after members of her group began to input the data for nearly 1,000 campuses by hand. "He has been a godsend," said Jenna Schwartz, co-founder of Parents Supporting Teachers. It helps parents "better understand and contextualize COVID-19 cases across our schools and neighborhoods," the group said. The district data offers just a snapshot of the data for that day. It also creates a record of what the numbers were each day so parents can compare the rates and see trends over time.
That's where Caballero stepped in.Ĭaballero wrote a script that scrapes the district's data, and every morning he turns it over to a group of parents who've created a public Google spreadsheet that shows the rates district-wide, not just the individual school. County Department of Public Health.īut the dashboard doesn't show district-wide aggregated data like the figures reported Sunday. LAUSD has its own dashboard where parents can search for their child's school and see how many students or staff tested positive for COVID and how many cases were linked to a "school-based transmission." It also shows the infection rate for the community of schools and the community identified by the L.A. Those cases do not appear to be contracted at schools, but according to the parent group, district data shows there were 2,862 active COVID cases among students and staff as of Sunday night. Less than a week after the district reported the first school-based COVID-19 outbreak at Grant Elementary School in East Hollywood where seven children contracted the virus, the parent group detailed thousands more COVID cases. For more than a year he's been poring over COVID data and posting aggregated metrics from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and other large school districts on his Twitter feed, just over a week ago, LAUSD parent advocacy group Parents Supporting Teachers tapped Caballero to help them get data they were asking the district for for months. "We're setting ourselves up for a major wave that starts with children," he said.Ĭaballero, co-founder and head of data insights for Coders Against COVID and a clinical informatics researcher, should know. He now regrets that decision and doesn't know if he'll send his toddler back.
On the third day of school, he received the news all parents dread: His child was in contact with another who tested positive for COVID-19.
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Caballero agonized over whether to send his toddler to preschool, but ultimately decided he couldn't teach his child how to socialize and share with other children at home.
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