Local doctors insight on how schools handle positive COVID-19 cases - KPRC Click2Houston

“What they’re telling us is they’re not seeing the transmission of the virus within schools.

When children are infected they’re coming to school with the virus," Callender said.

Yet, doctors said contact tracing is also important when it comes to schools and controlling the spread of COVID-19.

Jeffrey Starke, professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, said contact tracing is important when protecting schools, as children are most likely not to show any symptoms of the virus.

“How much transmission we’re actually seeing within the schools and how much transmission is occurring because of what’s going on in the community is really hard to tell, especially this early in the return to school,” Starke said.

“To really get that close contact that most transmission is associated with, that sort of contact is much more likely to happen in a household or someone’s daily life, then it would necessarily happen in a school environment,” Dr