Florida Counties Starting In-Person Schooling Have High COVID Rate

As Florida open schools start to open for in-person learning, a authorised conflict over a repercussions of doing so starts to ensue. At slightest twelve county open schools are formulation to free and 9 of those twelve had a COVID positivity rate above 5 percent, according to a Florida Department of Health.

On Aug 8, 2020, a latest information showed that in a past dual weeks “all 12 counties on some days exceeded 5 percent positivity rate, with some counties distant surpassing that metric.” For example, Baker County had a  36.9 percent positivity on Friday, and Bradford had a 42 percent positivity rate on Thursday.

According to Mark Richard, a Florida Education Association’s attorney, a propagandize districts opening this week are Baker, Bradford, Dixie, Franklin, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee, Martin, Calhoun, Hardee, Union and Wakulla.

As schools have possibly begun to free or modify to practical teaching, officials have settled that schools that uncover a rate aloft than 5 percent in certain COVID-19 contrast will have to cruise closing.

This call of movement for open schools was suggested by CDC Director Dr. Roberts Redfield in agreement with White House Coronavirus Response coordinators on Aug 2, 2020.

Written by Brielle R. Buford
Edited by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

CNN: The latest on a coronavirus pandemic

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