Clay County schools report 154 student COVID-19 cases during 2nd week of classes

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. – There were 154 Clay County students who were affirmative for COVID-19 during the 2nd week of classes, according to the schoolhouse district.

During that aforesaid week, the Clay County District Schools’ COVID-19 study for Aug. 16-20 shows, 406 students -- retired of 39,161 successful the territory -- were successful quarantine.

In addition, according to the report, 40 of 5,115 unit members were affirmative for the coronavirus during that time.

In comparison, 80 students were affirmative for COVID-19, 226 students were successful quarantine and 29 unit members were affirmative for the microorganism during the week of school.

The archetypal time of classes was Aug. 10. Within days, Cynthia Pate’s 16-year-old grandson, who is simply a inferior astatine Clay High School, got a soar pharynx and a fever. She said helium tested affirmative for COVID-19 connected Aug. 13.

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“It’s hard. I’m mad. I’m sad, too,” Pate told News4Jax. “It’s depressing honestly.”

The teen is raised by his 2 grandparents, and the household has been quaranting successful their Green Cove Springs location since helium tested positive.

“He’s inactive successful that room. He won’t travel out. You know, it’s already hard being a teenage boy, 16, surviving with your grandparents,” Pate said.

She said her grandson took other precautions due to the fact that helium did not privation to bring the microorganism backmost location to his grandparents who are high-risk.

“The lad does not spell anywhere. He hasn’t been disconnected our property. He doesn’t spell bent retired with different kids. He lone goes to school. He doesn’t thrust a bus,” Pate said.

Masks are highly encouraged but not required successful Clay County schools. Pate thinks they request to beryllium mandated.

“You, arsenic a grandparent, are disquieted about, OK, if I get it and thing does hap to me, OK, possibly it doesn’t, but what if it does, and I’m nary longer determination to instrumentality attraction of my grandson?” Pate said.

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Right now, the schoolhouse territory is not reporting the fig of cases astatine each idiosyncratic school, and that has galore parents frustrated.

They’ve created a Facebook radical called “Clay County Covid Exposures” that has astir 4,000 members to instrumentality matters into their ain hands.

“It’s nerve-wracking. We sent our kids to schoolhouse reasoning that erstwhile they get determination that the region is going to support our children, and they’re not,” said 1 mother, who did not privation to beryllium identified and whose lad is simply a 2nd people pupil astatine Paterson Elementary School. “I don’t request the names of the children that are affected. I conscionable privation to cognize is successful it successful my son’s classes, is it successful my son’s school, truthful we that can beryllium connected the lookout. This is what we request from the region and they are failing america arsenic parents.”

News4Jax reached retired to the schoolhouse territory to stock these parents’ concerns but had not heard backmost arsenic of publication.

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