Educators face new cases and shifting guidance as they try to reopen schools safely

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As Covid-19 case counts continue to climb, schools starting up the new academic year are faced with the task of creating a safe environment for students and teachers — even as students test positive and safety guidance shifts.

"I believe strongly that if we brought the kids all in, it would endanger not only the teachers but also their family and, of course, the students themselves," Jeff Gregorich, superintendent of Hayden Winkelman Unified School District in Arizona, told CNN on Monday.

These parents won't be sending their childrenIn Georgia's largest school district, in Gwinnett County, about 260 employees tested positive for or were exposed to the coronavirus before the start of the school year."As of last Thursday, we had approximately 260 employees who had been excluded from work due to a positive case or contact with a case," district spokeswoman Sloan Roach told CNN on Sunday.

 

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Love how the goal posts have shifted. 15 days TO SLOW THE SPREAD wasn’t to stop the virus. It was to give us time to make it less deadly. Now deaths are a fraction of a percent and all we hear about is NEW CASES. We could scare people about Hayfever if we lost it about NEW CASES!

Hydroxychloroquine has an inhibitory effect on the coronavirus, you turn a blind eye...mislead the public. murder?

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