What I remember as a local emergency manager, back in the day, was that approximately 18 percent of King County's population was in schools, K-12. That is not an insignificant number of the overall population, around 324,000 kids.
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Schools are 2 months into reopening under Covid-19 and no one's officially keeping track of how it's going."
We will never have the data as we come out of the pandemic — eventually to know what worked and what didn't. When national records are not being kept, there is no way to tell which measures were effective and which were not.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
