ARIKA HERRON
The Indianapolis Star
Reopening Indiana schools last fall did contribute to the spread of COVID-19 cases, a new study found, but not as much as researchers expected to find.
The study from a team of Indiana University researchers, doctors, statisticians and educators, found that in-person school did result in additional cases of COVID-19 but the number of cases attributable to in-person school was very low compared to total new cases.
âOpening schools we knew would have risk,â Dr. Gabriel Bosslet, associate professor of clinical medicine in the IU school of medicine, said. âPeople would be infected and people would spread the virus. No one knew the extent of that risk.â
Reopening Indiana schools last fall did contribute to the spread of COVID-19 cases, a new study found, but not as much as researchers expected to find.
The study from a team of Indiana University researchers, doctors, statisticians and educators, found that in-person school did result in additional cases of COVID-19 but the number of cases attributable to in-person school was very low compared to total new cases.
“Opening schools we knew would have risk,” Dr. Gabriel Bosslet, associate professor of clinical medicine in the IU school of medicine, said. “People would be infected and people would spread the virus. No one knew the extent of that risk.”
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Indiana surpassed 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases Tuesday. After weeks of declining cases, the state is seeing a slow uptick.
Indiana reported its most recent 100,000 new COVID-19 cases over the course of nearly three months, slowing down its pace of new cases significantly.
However, there has been an uptick in new cases. The state averaged more than 5,500 cases per day in December, 3,750 cases per day in January, 1,200 in February and 830 in March. So far in April, the state is averaging more than 1,000 per day.
Despite more than 1.4 million Hoosiers fully vaccinated, the state is seeing an increase in cases and hospitalizations. That’s because the state is in a race against more infectious variants.
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