Maricopa County Public Health Releases Dashboard For School Reopening Metrics

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On Friday, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health  launched a dashboard that is supposed to help school officials in Maricopa County figure out if their communities are meeting arbitrary reopening metrics set by the Arizona Department of Health Services and Arizona Department of Education.

The three metrics set by ADHS and ADE for opening schools:

  • Case rate per 100,000 people: A way to standardize and compare the number of cases in specific populations (data available at county, ZIP code and school district levels)
  • Percent positivity: A way to tell if there is significant community spread and whether enough testing is available (data available at county, ZIP code and school district levels)
  • COVID-like illness: A way to monitor the percent of people who visit participating emergency rooms and hospitals with COVID-19 symptoms before they are tested. This is the first sign that a decrease or increase in COVID-19 community spread is occurring (data available at the county level)

All data will be updated weekly on Thursdays at 4 pm.

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