... "This decision was not made lightly," Superintendent Brian Hightower said in a statement about the temporary halt to in-person instruction at Etowah High School. He said the high school had 14 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 15 tests pending as of Tuesday morning.
"As a result of the confirmed cases, 294 students and staff are under quarantine and, should the pending tests prove positive, that total would increase dramatically," the superintendent said.
In total, the district has 59 confirmed cases of the virus, Hightower said.
It also has 1,156 students and 37 staff in quarantine, according to a district list.
Hightower warned that because the coronavirus cases are predominantly at the district's high schools more of those schools could be closed.
The Cherokee County district — which has an enrollment of 42,000, of whom over 30,000 are receiving in-person instruction — recommends but does not require students to wear masks....
Prior to the reopening of schools on Aug. 3, some teachers and parents protested the district's plan.
In July, dozens of demonstrators, including teachers, protested outside a school board meeting, according to Georgia Public Broadcasting.
And some teachers resigned before the school year started due to safety concerns, according to the Cherokee Tribune & Ledger-News....
The district was warned.
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also has 1,156 students and 37 staff in quarantine, according to a district list.
It's now 2 of Cherokee County, GA's 6 high schools that are closed. 79 + cases across 21 schools. Meanwhile, parents in rational school districts have prepared for remote learning for a month or longer.
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The U.S. attempt to return children to the classroom this fall has turned into a slow-motion train wreck, with at least 2,400 students and staff either infected with COVID-19 or self-isolating because of exposure, and the vast majority of large school districts opting to go online this summer amid rising cases of the virus.
President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have mostly waved off the situation unraveling this week in states like Georgia, Alabama, Indiana and Tennessee, where schools opened their doors after a months-long hiatus due to the pandemic -- only to quickly backtrack as soon as infections popped back up.
Trump and DeVos have demanded that schools stay open full-time and threatened to pull federal funding if the institutions fail to do so. At a White House event this week, DeVos made no mention of the crisis in Georgia and elsewhere and said families shouldn't be held "captive to other people's fears or agendas." ...
Mirror, Betsy. You will be remembered as the worst and most deadly SoE ever.
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Contact tracer: I'm going to need a list of your contacts.
CV-19 patient: Sure.
Contact tracer: What is your occupation?
CV-19 patient: Prostitute.
Contact tracer: Oh.
CV-19 patient: Have fun.
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President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there's no daylight between them.
Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.
But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has campaigned for kids to return to the classroom and for the return of college sports, just like Trump....
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A woman was arrested and charged with assault after she struck an American Airlines employee who barred her from boarding a connecting flight because she wasn't wearing a face mask, NBC News reported....
Lock her up!
I'm not entirely sure that it's the same woman, but this Yolanda Yarbrough's Twitter feed is entirely pics of her bleach blonde, self-professed “NATURAL BEAUTY” with zero likes or replies. Weird.
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"The sting article, “SARS-CoV-2 was Unexpectedly Deadlier than Push-scooters: Could Hydroxychloroquine be the Unique Solution?” — was the brainchild of graduate student Mathieu Rebeaud, aka “Willard Oodendijk” and Florian Cova, of “The Institute for Quick and Dirty Science” (no, not really) in Switzerland. Their goal: to highlight a concerning paper in the Asian Journal of Medicine and Health, which they and others suspect of being a predatory publication — one that is happy to take money to publish anything, while pretending to perform peer review."
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
... 62% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said that the rise in coronavirus case number was primarily because of increased testing. 80% of their Democratic counterparts said that more infections — not tests — led to more cases. Overall, 60% mostly blamed infections, while 39% mostly blamed tests....
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I'm beginning to think that all money on primary education may be wasted. Of course if you identify more cases (through testing), you're going to have a higher number of total cases. But don't the idiots realize that tested or not, all those people would still be running around (or dying) infected? Even percent of positives doesn't mean much without the context of who's getting tested. If nobody is going for tests unless they feel sick and suspect Covid, then the percent of positives will be higher. If you're testing a large number of people because they may possibly have been exposed, the percent will be lower. Fools, imbeciles, and idiots.
I'm beginning to think that all money on primary education may be wasted. Of course if you identify more cases (through testing), you're going to have a higher number of total cases. But don't the idiots realize that tested or not, all those people would still be running around (or dying) infected? Even percent of positives doesn't mean much without the context of who's getting tested. If nobody is going for tests unless they feel sick and suspect Covid, then the percent of positives will be higher. If you're testing a large number of people because they may possibly have been exposed, the percent will be lower. Fools, imbeciles, and idiots.
Yeah but if you don't test asymptotic people that have been exposed, less cases and reelection!
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
