Fall semester classes at Oklahoma State University began Monday with an entire sorority under quarantine after 23 members test positive for the coronavirus.
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living said inMonday that there has been a"major spike in new COVID cases" that has now surpassed the previous peak level on May 31 and that 78 percent of them are in Sun Belt states.
While nursing home deaths from the coronavirus had been declining, they are on the rise again and 69 percent of deaths in late July occurred in Sun Belt states, the report concluded.Oklahoma State is not the only major university where the decision to reopen the school is being second-guessed.
The tensions between parents eager to get their kids back in class and teachers who fear getting infected waswhere a school district outside Phoenix was forced to cancel classes Monday after more than a 100 teachers staged a sickout."We have received an overwhelming response from staff indicating that they do not feel safe returning to classrooms with students," Gregory Wyman, superintendent of the J.O. Combs Unified School District, said in a letter to parents on Friday.
by the district’s governing board to reopen the classrooms. Teachers union president Joe Thomas said the district did not take into consideration benchmarks the Arizona Department of Health Services urged schools rely on to determine when they would reopen.
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