Unknown Number of TX Teachers died of Covid

As the country continues to re-open, the data is coming back around how many additional deaths occurred in TX due to re-opening schools- and it is not looking good.

The number of deaths of teachers alone is staggering and not fully known.

And since the Gov refuses to support mask mandates, will we continue to see more deaths in areas where vaccination is not as available for staff?

“A new study says reopening schools in Texas led to at least an additional 43,000 cases and 800 deaths across the state in a two-month period. In fact, one of the lead researchers says he was a bit taken aback by the results.

“So, what we find is, frankly, it’s a stronger connection than we would have guessed. And frankly, it’s not the result I wanted,” study author Dr. Charles Courtemanche said on Y’all-itics. “I’ve got four school-aged kids myself. The rooting interest was far more to find the opposite, if I can put it that way. But you sort of have to follow the data where they lead you.”

What isn’t clear, though, is how many of those were teachers or where exactly in the community the deaths might have occurred.

The report is 75 pages. And the researchers clearly spell out the methods they use. But in essence, they were able to look at how Texans moved about after the schools opened again by using cell phone data and other “event-study” modeling.

The study is not suggesting schools close down again, or even that they don’t reopen in the fall. Courtemanche says the evidence they’ve uncovered should be used in debates and conversations moving forward, but it shouldn’t be used as the one-and-only study to make decisions in the future.

“The CDC has their body of evidence -- which is a little limited, but it’s not nothing -- that basically says schools can be reopened safely ‘if.’ And so, I think the number one thing our study is trying to communicate to decisions makers is pay attention to what’s after the ‘if,’” said Courtemanche.

“It’s almost less, in some ways, about what your school mitigation strategy is and more about what’s your community doing to keep those rates.”

Many teachers and other school workers wouldn’t be surprised by the results of this study. They predicted, some right here on Y’all-itics, they would lose co-workers to the disease before they even returned to classrooms.

But nobody knows the exact number of teachers who’ve died of COVID during this school year because the state isn’t tracking those statistics.”

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/nobody-knows-how-many-texas-teachers-died-covid-19/287-459c384d-5640-47d3-b58e-37b5dca180c4