Over 100 people quarantined in Mississippi school district after several test positive for coronavirus

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A Mississippi school district sees over 100 people quarantined after several students and staff test positive for COVID-19, less than two weeks after the start of school.

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At least 116 people in a Mississippi school district have been instructed to self-quarantine for 14 days after six students and one staff member tested positive for the coronavirus less than two weeks after the start of school.

Of the seven people who have tested positive since classes resumed July 27 in Corinth, a city in the state's northeast corner, five are high school students, one attends middle school, and the other is a staff member at an elementary school, according to Taylor Coombs, spokeswoman for the Corinth School District.

At least 116 people who are considered to have been in close contact with one of those seven have been instructed to quarantine for 14 days, Coombs said Thursday. She said she could not disclose how many of the 116 are students or staff because of privacy laws. "We believe that most of these earlier cases are the result of community transmission, which further highlights the need for all community members to adopt and practice recommended safety measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus," Superintendent Lee Childress said in a statement.Sign Up

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Stupid, man up, you face more means to die in a half hour than you will with this virus in a life time. You babies who operate on fear and unbelief, Get on your feet, get back to work and stay there. If you get sick go quarantine yourself, get well and go back to work.

tatereeves, this one’s all yours.

What a shit show. That’s what they get for reopening to appease trump.

Deliberate genocide 🤬 TrumpGenocide

madamecrab Imagine my surprise.

They all died?

What’s the difference between quarantining and self-quarantining?

Kudos, though, to the students for wearing face masks! Maybe Mississippi can show Georgia how you CAN enforce masks at school.

This is exactly what teachers, doctors, and school administrators warned us about throughout the summer when the subject of re-opening schools was brought up and yet many in the US still look at politicians as the experts on this.

No worries. It is what it is.🤷‍♀️ TrumpHasNoPlan

I am not alone in thinking this administration is trying to get rid of a large swath of people through this virus and other residual means. This could’ve been managed & controlled a thousand X better than this. America needs leadership!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

jamlouh 'I told you so's,' during a killer pandemic, aren't satisfying at all.

No way the authorities could have seen this coming. If only someone had warned them...

By September 30, the words “super spreader” will be inextricably linked to America’s schools.

People like to say the Trump/GOP/Russia collusion story isn’t true, but the GOP sure does like killing Americans.

This is like a horror movie

Orange__Fish Blame trump

ReplaceTheHate I'm expecting this here in Texas with my wife's school district as well. Face to Face classes are supposed to start on the 18th of this month. It's not safe.

BellaMax12 'At least 116 people in a Mississippi school district have been instructed to self-quarantine after students and a staff member tested positive for coronavirus less than 2 weeks after the start of school.' Good job, Republican fvck holes! MAGA you sh1tting idiots! ANTIFA

Shockerooni.

And so it begins ...hope none of their families had people with co morbidities or over 60 or the kids are gonna have some guilt of how they brought home death from school

PrincessBravato REALLY.. WHAT DID THEY THINK WOULD HAPPEN.. OR WAS MISSISSIPPI HOPING FOR THIS?!!

NBC trying scare everyone.. WHO cares 116 out of 28,000 kids in the district...

Mississippi, we r not Alabama but we r close.

CDHSRams are you paying attention? Still a chance to avoid this.

PrincessBravato Petri dishes, for parents to be free to work for rich people’s bottom line.. “Not that many children will die. They’re immune... practically immune.”

Kids and the school personnel are the new group of expendables.

Are these People OK Is anyone SICK You didn't even mention anyone's Condition or reference anyone's actual HEALTH Great Reporting NBC Keep Sensationalizing CoVid

SOCALRE4U When will they admit this isn’t working? School and pandemics do not go together.

Winning!!!!!

Why NBC never reports good school opening case?

It will only get worse. If you are a parent in Mississippi and care for your child you should keep them home. It is only a matter of time before they bring it home to your family.

This is a national emergency.. You got a problem with that we can go do some push-ups man. Here 's what I 'm running for history Look, Look,, I'm confident of it..

Within the first two weeks Try within the first 4 days. School started on a Monday, by Thursday they were being quarantined.

That went well.....

This is uncontrollable Chaos

Yena aya kwini?

And school and government officials should start going to jail.

normsworld

Cases are rising. Bruh I wouldn't even risk sending these kids to school during this time.

Calm down NBC... You haven't been relevant for, well, ever.

Hear we go, one doesn't need to be a nuclear scientist to realize, students are in trouble returning to class rooms.

They start school so early there!

Someone needs to tell those kids to cover their noses.

Sorry JoeBiden we lost another one to kanyewest

Yea we all saw this coming and if you didn't well you have more problems then we have time for .

Asymptomatic Don't spread covid. Ffs

This is going well

fordnation Sflecce Great plan for BTS. So you need, what? 200,000 signatures Idiots! ontpoli

I told you that there is something wrong with the state of Mississippi and most of the people that live there. When I drive through Mississippi even my car drives funny.

I see two kids in that picture not properly wearing their mask. Their nose is clearly exposed.

I don't think the education system is working in Mississippi if they didn't see this coming.

Sflecce You are watching the travesty that is the US, right? We may be more compliant with masks, etc, but you can't stuff people into a room and not expect our numbers to skyrocket. The second wave will be on OntarioPCParty

Why make a big deal of what we expected to happen as re-opening,,,will have pitfalls

Cc fordnation onpoli

They’re are masked. Masks don’t work.

Welp, I have no kids so I’ll just sit back, grab some popcorn and watch the world burn thanks to these Republicans who are still playing politics in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.

Why is everyone so shocked and appalled at the videos and pictures coming from inside schools? If anyone had bothered to ask ANY teacher, they would have told you that this is EXACTLY what schools were going to look like!

TRUMP, ARE YOU AND YOUR ADMINISTRATION AWARE OF NEW CASES OF THE COVID-19 IN MISSISSIPPI? LEADERS OF AMERICA ARE MAKING DECISIONS TO OPEN UP SCHOOLS AGAIN NOT KNOWING OR CARING ABOUT THE KIDS SAFETY AT HAND! SHAME ON TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION FOR NOT CARING FOR OUR FUTURE (KIDS)!

Let them all get it. All the kids need exposure to end this nonsense.

How is having to quarantine for 2 weeks not more disruptive to learning that just distance learning?

Herd immunity is how Sweden is beating it

Why are kids in school in July?

This is Ridiculous, Now we are going to allow kids to Infect their parents?

Reminder: Trump's a child-caging, bigoted, lying, thrice-married philanderer who cheated on his 3rd wife with a porn star while she was nursing his 5th child and he is a serial groper who once bragged about literally how he liked to commit sexual assault.

Wow. Who knew something like this could happen?

sad thing is, the schools will not be held accountable for the outbreaks, but they pushed for these schools to open up

Obviously they can’t read. One way

This is just ridiculous

deejay90192 It doesnt take a scientist to tell me sending the kids back to school is a mistake. The picture featured in your article says it all.

deejay90192

So much winning.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

KatiePhang Note the below-the-nose masks.

KatiePhang Not the least bit surprised about the positive tests, but when did kids start going back to school in July?

ZuluagaCamila PLinero ( ir al colegio si)

'Totally safe though, and everyone knows kids can't get Covid19...'

Anyone that follows the moronic realDonaldTrump ‘s whims needs their own head examined.

TeresaKopec Ffsakes $%&&%$ No wonder 1000's are dying.

And so the infestation begins......

Open up School -Quarantine, Repeat!

You don’t say?!!!

That whole thing has a way of shutting itself down

National news story over about 0.175% testing positive.

...if only there were steps that we could take to prevent this

Reopening schools is ridiculous. This outcome was not hard to predict.

Are these people stupid? Or do they just not care about the people who are going to die when these kids start taking the corona virus out of the school and into the community and into their homes? I guess this is one way to get people off the social security rolls JARED.

KatiePhang Not going to end well

This hoax is really spreading

KatiePhang Big fucking surprise! Stupid

Get your virus under control, then open up. Test, Track and Trace. OR Are you going for the herd immunity model ? What ever, just do it already. Then be united about it.

I want my 6 year old son in school and IDGAF what the media says. Make your own choices, dont force your agenda on everyone else. You all have a distance learning option (which will result in a 7th grade education after 12th grade) dont tell my family and I how to live anymore

Cool.

These two stories should talk.

It will get better, the rest of the world did it and kids are all back at school where they should be.

this cycle will repeat forever!!! it will always happen when common sense is no longer common 🤦🏻‍♂

Can’t un-ring a bell.

I don't understand what y'all don't understand and they going to do the same thing over here in Hillsborough you know the virus still out there but we still going to use your children than the staffs for guinea pigs it's not fair

That is the way to go...Open , Test, Identify, Isolate and contact trace....BOLD AMERICA

I’m shocked!

Bullshit.

Who knew? -/sinc/ Donald Trump

Thank me later

JoyAnnReid Even folks in the so-called Third World countries think this is crazy and the kids are doing virtual learning.

JoyAnnReid

Dont ppl get that when entire families /communities have to quarantine, it hurts the economy even more Why don’t people get that reopenings schools exacerbate the situation?

JoyAnnReid That’s strange it’s almost like schools a building where hundreds of people move from room to room touching things that others will use later and where people typically don’t wash their hands often is the perfect place for covid-19 to spread.

JoyAnnReid This experiment is going splendidly

Who knew pandemics were so hard?

Why are students having to quarantine? I thought it was fine if they got it? They don’t spread it. I thought they were immune?

Sure...bahaaaa

JoyAnnReid Please please please, if you care about your child’s life and your family’s life, DON’T LISTEN TO TRUMP OR ANY OF HIS ENABLERS! They are going to get us all killed!

A few students and teachers tested positive and its more than probable they encountered it off campus or in their home like most other people do. The mitigation system is working. Good for the school management.

So are tRump MAGAts the only ones who are surprised by this?

I'm gonna be next corona victim in the up coming two weeks

JoyAnnReid This going to happen at every school in America! It's not only to soon but dangerously stupid!

JoyAnnReid Joe Biden is a true gentleman! He knows what decent thing to say! He's not a victim like Trump!

JoyAnnReid This is just plain dumb. All schools should fully expect this to happen when they open. We'll then further infect one another and eventually close schools again. For what? This is crazy.

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This is going to happen over and over cuz US doesn’t have Covid-19 under control as a result of Trump’s incompetence. Until that happens his pushing schools to reopen as if all is normal is foolish & dangerous as infected students can infect vulnerable parents & grandparents.

How many of these ppl are getting second tests? If Dewine can get a false positive, then anyone can. There is no accurate testing, unless it is followed up on.

If it’s so damn easy to transmit at school, why hadn’t media reported on transmission through millions protesting?

How did we ever get through the last 500 years of plagues...if social media didn't exist no one would know nor care. At some point this will become a seasonal flu.

JoyAnnReid The scary part is 116 ppl are potentially exposed as a result of only 7 others. Which means the other 100+ people are now potentially carrying the virus back into their homes, and transmitting it to their families. And ther cycle continues SMDH

In this pic, many are not wearing their masks properly.

And so the utter idiocy of 'open the schools' begins.

There you go spreading fear porn again. We are sick of it, can you think of one positive thing?. Are they not that sick?. Are they not having.symptoms?.

JoyAnnReid We are entitled to GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Our political system is controlled by Corporations and the Super Rich. We need a wave of new progressive reformist politicians. We need a government that puts THE PEOPLE FIRST. We must make it happen. 😷

I’m Not Going Back To School Period.

JoyAnnReid Coming soon to a school district near you

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Who could have predicted? Trump is insane and 40% of our country worship him. We have to take all power from them before they kill all our children!

Q: Who would have ever thought that the state of Mississippi, last (or almost last) in the nation for high school dropout rates, obesity, poverty levels and medical care, would screw this up? A: Everyone with any sense

JoyAnnReid We are going to (already are) see more and more of these headlines. COVID is not under control anywhere enough to open schools other than remotely. I know it's not that simple. But one child's death is too many. We've already lost almost 200K Americans.

Wake up fools. T won’t expose his child to Covid-19 why would you.

So now the next question. How many others caught it and were either showing sickness while at school? I ask as in the first days my local schools had kids with Covid, they closed a day cleaned and came back, but didn’t hear it spread to others from them.

JoyAnnReid Wow...Who would’a thought🤦🏼‍♀️

Surprise, surprise

JoyAnnReid Because … you know … sticking kids together in large groups … amidst a raging pandemic … we were all taken by surprise

JoyAnnReid

JoyAnnReid So it’s going well.

JoyAnnReid At least these kids are wearing masks and walking down the hallway with some kind of understanding of safety. Hey Georgia - take a look!

You act so surprised like no one will ever get it again. What, you thought millions of kids would go back to school and none test positive? Do we need a breaking report of fear every single time?

JoyAnnReid At least they are wearing masks unlike Georgia.

JoyAnnReid I'm incredibly shocked.

JoyAnnReid Morons and criminals guilty of child endangerment.

Arrest Them Immediately

That's not possible the President says that young people are completely immune and that as soon as you turn 18 you instantly stop being immune

Let's just see how this plays out . . .

Gov Reeves is what you get when a brother marries a sister and has a child.

Why ? 0-24 years old are basically immune.

But, you know, it's TOTALLY safe to open schools, or something.

Does the ass in the people’s house know this? realDonaldTrump

This is going to be a MESS!

Laurie_Garrett And they have no more ICU capacity because 'it can't happen here'. But start school and college football because the kids probably won't die and that TV money...

Laurie_Garrett Who'd've thunk - besides every international epidemiologist and every teacher and parent with a brain? 😡

Shame on this nation.

Laurie_Garrett Why are they in school on July 27th?

Laurie_Garrett

off to a great start!

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scpol henrymcmaster 1stLadySC

How could this have happened with those arrows on the floor?! It doesn't seem possible. There are ARROWS. ON. THE. FLOOR.

It is only going to get worse!!! LEMMINGS!!

This should be the nail in Trump’s presidency....after Labor Day this country will be Covid ridden

The Trump doctrine. Sacrifice your children for nothing

No one will die

Children generally have excellent outcomes with Covid , and in general now, I find people of all ages are presenting with milder symptoms ... herd immunity ..🧐

They all wear masks. Masks don’t work.

We all do stupid things. But at least we're not killing people like Republican governors.

What else did people expect to happen? If anyone thought this could go good well let me tell ya, that’s stupid. Kids get sent normally to school even when they show symptoms of being sick, now imagine with COVID that in some cases don’t even show symptoms. It was gonna get bad.

What a disgrace. How they gonna blame liberals for this?

GetRealG That’s not good. Like.. really bad.

God help us

Send this to DonaldTrump and tell him to send all his kids to school to help out.

This is what happens when you lock everyone down then begin to let them mix. It’s exactly how they planned it & serves to drag all this out so Joe can stay home.

This was inevitable, in a state with a science-denying governor.

Number one, as I said at the outset,. The 42nd amendment guarantees us that freedom!. I'd tell them.. you're getting nervous man!. Look here, JACK., and he showed me that poor kids are just as smart as white kids!. Calm down. Amb

SMDH

Imagine that!!!

See LouisianaGov SteveScalise stppschools ? Is this you want for your citizens?

You learn nothing with yo-yo education.

It's almost as if health officials warned against this.

So what.

Mississippi enough said...🤦🏾😂

Just an isolated incident...

So it’s safe to return back to school campuses huh

Great - work the problem in the school district, move on and be prepared for the next one - can’t and won’t stop thousand for a hundred now possibly affected - nothing to see here - move along

Southern inbred ignorance showing up en mass

😳🙌

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