Why a CDC investigation of Boston Public Schools COVID-19 outbreaks is needed now

Posted byPhilip A. Lederer MDPosted ininfectious disease

The message dinged our phones on Oct. 27: “Not great news, but a friend just shared there are six confirmed COVID cases in the fourth-grade class.”

The group chat of parents and caregivers of third-graders at the Manning Elementary School in Jamaica Plain is usually about misplaced homework and after-school activities. This was something else, and it eventually became clear that the Manning School was facing the largest COVID-19 outbreak of the year in Boston Public Schools — now surpassed by the CurleyK-8 School in Jamaica Plain and Orchard Gardens in Roxbury in total cases.

Please read the rest of our new Boston Globe op-ed and sign our petition – thank you.

Published by Philip A. Lederer MD

Thanks for visiting my website! I was born in 1980 in Columbus, Ohio and live with my family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. My training is in internal medicine, public health, and infectious diseases. I am an advocate, writer, and musician, and recently I completed my first marathon.

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