After potentially being exposed to the coronavirus in schools where masks aren't required, a Georgia district has more than 800 kids and staff in quarantine
). But Cherokee County might just serve as the cautionary tale we need to convince schools planning to open in the future that they need to either have social distancing and mask policies in place, or go straight back to virtual learning. It started last week, when a single second grader tested positive for the coronavirus, and around 20 people were told to quarantine. As of Monday night, the district’s list of people who might have been exposed had grown to 826.
This situation “is why we put a system into place to quickly contact trace, mandate quarantines, notify parents and report cases and quarantines to the entire community,” spokeswoman Barbara Jacoby told local reporters. “We are not hesitating to quarantine students and staff who have had possible exposure to a student or staff member who has tested positive.”
The news of the 826 people in coronavirus quarantine comes after a photo taken at a high school in the Cherokee County district went viral. In the photo, a very large group of students posed shoulder-to-shoulder, packed into the frame, without a mask in sight. District officials say masks are not required, but they are recommended.
Despite being in the middle of a pandemic, today Etowah High School in Cherokee County started their first day of school.
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