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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:18 PM Aug 2020

A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine.

Last week, schools in Corinth, Miss., welcomed back hundreds of students. By Friday, one high-schooler tested positive for the novel coronavirus. By early this week, the count rose to six students and one staff member infected. Now, 116 students have been sent home to quarantine, a spokeswoman for the school district confirmed.

Despite the quick fallout, the district’s superintendent said he has no plans to change course.

“Just because you begin to have positive cases, that is not a reason for closing school,” Superintendent Lee Childress said in a Facebook Live broadcast on Tuesday on the school district’s Facebook page.

As districts around the country debate the merits of in-person classes vs. remote learning amid an escalating novel coronavirus pandemic, the Corinth School District’s early experience shows how quickly positive tests can lead to larger quarantines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/06/school-coronavirus-outbreak-mississippi/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main

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A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Just because your house is on fire, that is not a reason for calling the fire department. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #1
You Said It! ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #2
+1 crickets Aug 2020 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2020 #3
Depends on community incidence, and fate. Reality is, Hortensis Aug 2020 #4
"Despite the quick fallout, the district's superintendent said he has no plans to change course. Botany Aug 2020 #5
Protocols,.. that trDump refuses to enact. magicarpet Aug 2020 #6
I understand Arkansas is gonna be right with them very soon demanding in person learning Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #7

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
2. You Said It!
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:21 PM
Aug 2020

What he said makes no sense at all!
Positive tests are pretty much the ONLY reason to shut down schools!

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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Depends on community incidence, and fate. Reality is,
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:23 PM
Aug 2020

this is what should have been done from the beginning wherever it showed up. Schools could have been kept open. However, isolation and return to open schools depends on few cases in the community. Anyone know the situation in this county?

Botany

(70,291 posts)
5. "Despite the quick fallout, the district's superintendent said he has no plans to change course.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:38 PM
Aug 2020

Fox News, the GOP, hate talk radio, and their pastors has rotted out the neocortex
of many people's brains. This is not a political problem it is a medical, public health,
and scientific problem.

magicarpet

(13,941 posts)
6. Protocols,.. that trDump refuses to enact.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:40 PM
Aug 2020

Test, (not 7 to 14 for results)

Trace back contacts,

Quarantine until well,

Repeat until vaccine found.

Thekaspervote

(32,606 posts)
7. I understand Arkansas is gonna be right with them very soon demanding in person learning
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 04:49 PM
Aug 2020

I could not live in a red state !

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