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Three Arizona teachers who shared a classroom got coronavirus. One of them died
By Jennifer Henderson, CNN 1 hr ago
Three teachers who shared a summer classroom at a school in Arizona all contracted coronavirus last month, leaving one of them dead.
Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. The other two teachers -- Jena Martinez and Angela Skillings -- said they're still struggling with the effects of the virus that has killed nearly 135,000 people nationwide.
All three teachers wore masks and gloves, used hand sanitizer and socially distanced, but still got sick, according to school officials at the small community in the eastern part of the state.
Gregorich reiterated the three teachers were careful and still got Covid-19.
I think that's really the message or the concern that our staff has is we can't even keep our staff safe by themselves ... how are we going to keep 20 kids in a classroom safe? I just don't see how that's possible to do that," he said.
Byrd said reopening schools will put people in their small community at risk and he does not want to see other families go through a similar experience.
"Many grandparents, wind up being caretakers to kids when they get off school- mom and dad are working and a lot of grandparents are even raising their grandchildren. So, many of these grandparents fall into this high risk category of being older with more health issues," he said.
"They have no business opening the schools to try and get back to a traditional classroom ... let's get through this pandemic first before we try to get back to normal."
Really... the 61 year old teacher died. My mother retired before that.
So for how long? 10 years closed? Should we just allow an entire generation of kids grow up unable to do math?
What is your plan exactly.
1. Reduce the daily infection rate to levels that are low enough for contact tracers to be able to follow and do their investigations which involve testing, questioning and isolating people.
2. You reduce the daily infection rate by isolating everyone as much as possible and remaining in isolation until the number of infections drop to a level that can be managed.
3. Its what New Zealand and TAIWAN did. They are the proof that it is possible.
4. The longer the United States waits to go into the lock down mode, the longer it will have to stay in lock down mode to defeat the virus.
5. Until the virus is defeated, the U.S. economy will NEVER RECOVER!