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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA 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 districts 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 districts 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 Districts 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
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Wadda maroon.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)What he said makes no sense at all!
Positive tests are pretty much the ONLY reason to shut down schools!
crickets
(25,896 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)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)Test, (not 7 to 14 for results)
Trace back contacts,
Quarantine until well,
Repeat until vaccine found.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)I could not live in a red state !