Health care providers call for more transparency in COVID-19 case reporting in Nassau County schools

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Providers nonstop missive to schoolhouse committee arsenic parents usage Facebook radical to way cases successful classrooms

NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – Some Nassau County parents are taking matters into their ain hands erstwhile it comes to tracking the fig of COVID-19 cases successful their children’s classrooms.

They’ve created a societal media web amongst themselves due to the fact that lawsuit counts aren’t presently being breached down by schoolhouse successful the Nassau County School District. It’s conscionable 1 of the requests wellness attraction providers are demanding successful a missive — which News4Jax has obtained — to Nassau County School Board members.

As of Monday, the NCSD Parent Covid Tracking Facebook radical had much than 2,000 members. The assets is not tally by schoolhouse officials but alternatively parents, who’ve besides created a signifier to study a kid with COVID-19.

The creators of the radical telephone it a assemblage effort, asking nary names to beryllium mentioned but requesting parents study the school, people and teacher affected by COVID-19.

One genitor wrote Sunday: “HES 1st grader, Fever started 8/1. Health section called connected 8/5 affirmative test. Quarantined until 8/13.”

The radical is adjacent arming parents with accusation astir imaginable COVID-19 transmission connected the bus.

“Yulee Middle , tested positive. Bus fig 418,” different genitor wrote.

The Facebook page’s improvement comes connected the heels of a Nassau County School Board gathering successful precocious August erstwhile immoderate parents asked that the COVID-19 lawsuit numbers provided by the territory beryllium breached down by school.

Right now, the schoolhouse district’s COVID-19 dashboard lone lists the fig of caller COVID-19 cases, on with the fig of unit and students quarantined. Superintendent Dr. Kathy Burns said breaking down the cases schoolhouse by schoolhouse is an contented of manpower.

“We person 1 idiosyncratic successful prevention and involution that’s handling this and moving until 8 oregon 9 o’clock each night, truthful we are looking astatine each enactment erstwhile it comes to breaking it down by school, but we haven’t gotten determination yet,” Burns said past month.

Local wellness attraction professionals are besides putting unit connected schoolhouse committee members successful Nassau County, wherever students tin opt retired of the district’s disguise mandate, sending each a missive Monday morning, which reads successful part:

“We would like, arsenic different districts have, to suggest stricter presumption to the disguise mandate. The opt-out should beryllium lone fixed to those that person aesculapian conditions that prohibit them from wearing one. Transparency is different issue. If a pupil oregon teacher has tested positive, the ENTIRE people should beryllium notified immediately. Parents should person the close to support their children location if a classmate has Covid.”

News4Jax spoke concisely with schoolhouse committee subordinate Lissa Braddock, who said she has yet to work the letter, citing the Labor Day holiday. She said she and different committee members volition beryllium incapable to remark until the caput of the schoolhouse committee besides reads the missive and reviews the letter’s requests.