2 Days Into The School Year, A Florida District Asked 440 Students To Quarantine

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6. I had read yesterday that there were 4 "tiny" (the way AP characterized it) school districts in GA

that went into school quarantines (but then the article mentions a larger school system in Savannah that also had to quarantine) -

4 Georgia districts stop in-person classes due to COVID

By JEFF AMY August 11, 2021

ATLANTA (AP) — Four tiny Georgia public school districts have temporarily shut down in-person instruction within days of starting school, saying high COVID-19 case counts among students and staff makes it unsafe to continue. Other districts have closed individual schools or sent hundreds of students into quarantine after exposure to people with COVID-19. The 1,100-student Macon County district on Wednesday became the fourth district to suspend in-person classes, following the smaller Taliaferro, Glascock and Talbot counties in recent days. The four districts combined serve a fraction of 1% of Georgia’s 1.7 million students.

“The difference now in this outbreak that we see than the outbreak that happened last school year is that this seems to be more centered on kids, rather than adults, so that scares me to death,” Talbot County Superintendent Jack Catrett told WTVM-TV. The moves show the difficulty of keeping schools open as COVID-19 surges across Georgia, despite the determination of local school leaders to focus on in-person classes this year. Clayton County stopped in-person instruction at an elementary school because of COVID-19. In the Savannah-Chatham district, 230 of the district’s 36,000 students have tested positive, while more than 1,100 students have been quarantined because of exposure.

Of roughly 5,000 employees, 36 have tested positive and another 72 are quarantined. Sumter County quarantined unvaccinated high school football players. Catrett said it was necessary to close the entire district because all grades share the same building in the 500-student district. Talbot students are relying on paper packets to work remotely, while other districts have issued computers for students to take home. “It’s terrible not to have them here. When you walk through our halls it’s sad, there’s no children,” Catrett told WRBL-TV. The district is supposed to return to in-person classes on Monday, but Catrett said the closure could be extended based on contact tracing.

Larger districts, though, are determined to keep teaching in person. “We worked really hard to get to five days a week and that’s what we’re going to stay,” Savannah-Chatham Superintendent Ann Levett told WTOC-TV, adding that “we’re not going to do that at the risk of detriment to health and safety.” Georgia’s case count continues to rise, with the seven-day rolling average climbing above 5,600 on Wednesday, the worst since Feb. 1. The number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals is also rising rapidly, exceeding 3,800 on Wednesday even as many hospital executives warn they don’t have enough beds and staff to care for surging patients loads.

https://apnews.com/article/health-education-georgia-coronavirus-pandemic-cb8ce8cfeb8a705b70d9073bd5383e9a

It's literally like if they don't "see" the viral particles, then they don't exist.