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How often is COVID-19 spreading in Massachusetts schools?
When Governor Charlie Baker urged superintendents to keep classrooms open, he left a gut-wrenching question unanswered: How often is coronavirus spreading in schools?

Baker says most schools should only close if they have seen in-school transmission, which he suggests is rare — an assumption seemingly bolstered by national reports of low rates of infection among those who have returned to school.

Yet superintendents have publicly reported spread within their schools. Skeptical teachers’ unions have created a database to self-report cases across the state. And school employees have been sharing harrowing hospital stories. The state epidemiologist acknowledges that while the exact rate is unclear, in-school transmission is, in fact, occurring.

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