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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 12 2020, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-would-Gomer-Pyle-say? dept.

HS that suspended teen who tweeted photo of hallway has 9 COVID-19 cases:

North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, sent a letter to parents Saturday, saying, "At this time, we know there were six students and three staff members who were in school for at least some time last week who have since reported to us that they have tested positive." The letter was published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Most or even all of the six students and three staff members who tested positive could have had the virus before the school reopened on Monday, August 3. As Harvard Medical School explains, "The time from exposure to symptom onset (known as the incubation period) is thought to be three to 14 days, though symptoms typically appear within four or five days after exposure," and "a person with COVID-19 may be contagious 48 to 72 hours before starting to experience symptoms."

[...] As we reported Friday, the school issued a five-day suspension to student Hannah Watters after she posted a photo to Twitter, noting the "jammed" hallways and "10 percent mask rate." The school lifted her suspension after extensive media coverage. One other unnamed student who was suspended for a similar reason also had the suspension reversed, the Journal-Constitution said.

Students attended class in person only on Monday through Wednesday, as the district said it conducted a short first week "so that all of our schools can step back and assess how things are going so far."

Update at 6:50pm ET: North Paulding High School announced Sunday that it has canceled in-person instruction for Monday and Tuesday, August 10 and 11, because of the nine positive cases and "the possibility that number could increase if there are currently pending tests that prove positive." The school said that on Tuesday evening, parents and students will be notified about whether in-person instruction will resume on Wednesday. Remote learning will continue while the school is closed.


Previously:
(2020-08-08) Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @04:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @04:27PM (#1035605)

    The problem is that young and healthy people are getting serious medical conditions from COVID. Young healthy people are still being left with chronic fatigue, lung damage, and other long term effects from this virus, too. There aren't a lot of people healthier than college athletes. The Big Ten and Pac-12 postponed fall sports because some of those athletes are developing myocarditis.

    If you're only looking at the death rate, you're getting a very misleading picture of the actual risk level for young people. We don't know how they'll recover from these issues. Perhaps the issues will go away in a year or two like the longer term lung damage from SARS. But this virus isn't quite like SARS and we don't really know for sure how well they'll recover.

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