LOCAL COVID-19 UPDATE: More than 700 CCSC students/staff positive or quarantined

The fluidity of COVID-19 is happening at Clay Community Schools, as more than 700 students and staff are homebound due to either testing postive for the virus or quarantines from contact tracing.

Coordinator of Health Services for Clay Community Schools Lynn Stoelting, BSN RN, is tracking the spread of the coronavirus in the local schools.

Early Thursday morning, the total for confirmed COVID-19 cases in the corporation is at 85 (including 10 staff members who have tested positive for COVID-19):

Positive student cases

Staff

In quarantine (contact tracing)

Total affected (either positive or quarantined)

With 3,950 students enrolled this fall, 18 percent of students are either positive for COVID-19 or being quarantined.

According to data provided by the Indiana State Department of Health Thursday, Clay County is currently in the RED Advisory Category with 20.5% 7-Day All Tests Positivity Rates and 29.4% Unique - first time tested - 7-Day Positivity Rates. Since the beginning of the pandemic for Clay County, the overall cumulative rate for unique individuals testing positive is 22.6%.

Of the 11 Indiana counties currently in the RED Advisory Category of the 2-Week Metric, Clay County was second Thursday, topped by Warren County’s 20.9%.

The data changes throughout the day as more and more information is made available to the school corporation. Data about students and staff is not broken down due to confidentiality reasons. The information is also for only POSITIVE cases. Stoelting has confirmed the data for those sent home to self-isolate throughout the corporation due to potential exposure with a person testing positive for COVID-19:

This data will be updated weekly.