Northside High Reports 10% Of Students Positive For COVID-19

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Northside High School reported 49 of its nearly 500 students are currently positive for COVID-19, coming out to a little more than 10% of the school's student population. This covers the testing period of Aug. 24-31.

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This and other updates were provided Thursday in the semester's first update of the Tuscaloosa County School System's COVID-19 dashboard. For instance, Northside's percentage of positive cases was substantially higher than the much larger Tuscaloosa County High School, which reported 29 of its 1,631 students were out after testing positive.

Duncanville Middle and Brookwood High also reported 29 students out at each of the schools.

Systemwide, though, 2% of the county's 19,302 are currently positive for the virus — 424 total, in addition to 48 TCSS faculty and staff. This is comparable to the percentage reported this week by the much-smaller Tuscaloosa City Schools, which has been operating under a temporary mask order through the beginning of the semester.

The Tuscaloosa County Board of Education has yet to mandate masks for those indoors in its schools.

DCH Health System reported 19 new patients were added on Thursday, bringing the system's overall total to 161. Of those patients, 41 are being treated in the ICU, while 36 of those patients are receiving treatment on ventilators — a high for the pandemic in Tuscaloosa.

Check out the full table below provided by TCSS or click here to view the full dashboard.

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