Des Moines Public Schools Coronavirus Dashboard

Press release from the Des Moines Public Schools:

September 25, 2020

Providing COVID-19 Staff and Student Information

Des Moines Public Schools values transparency and will balance providing as much information as possible with respecting student and staff medical privacy rights. Our health services staff, including school nurses, has decided that COVID-19 information should be shown on a districtwide basis for now. This will avoid identifying individual students or staff who are absent due to a COVID-19 illness or exposure.

The following DMPS COVID-19 tracker will be updated daily on school days by 4:30 PM and will include DMPS cases confirmed by Polk County over the past 24 hours as well as the total number of confirmed positive cases.* We will also include the Polk County COVID-19 two-week positivity rate.

*weekend and holiday COVID-19 positive cases will be added on the following school day.

This press release was produced by the Des Moines Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.