Almost every school district in the state is now voluntarily operating remotely or operating under the threat of a state order to go online if officials determine the schools aren’t strictly following a state mandate requiring face coverings. Roughly 1-in-10 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week in Pennsylvania were school-aged, new state data shows. According to the state’s Early Warning Dashboard, 41,424 people in Pennsylvania tested positive for COVID-19 last week, including 4,212  between the ages of 5-18. Fewer than 28,000 school-aged children in the state have tested positive for COVID-19 throughout the entire pandemic, but 13,424 of those cases came in November, meaning almost half of the COVID-19 cases in school-aged children came to light in the last month. The revelation comes a week after the state had ordered that schools in areas of substantial community spread of COVID-19 go fully online or school officials must sign a pledge that they will strictly enforce the state’s public health order requiring that face coverings be worn.

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Source: The Daily Item By John Finnerty/CNHI State Reporter December 1, 2020.