Hillsborough sends over 5000 students home first week (so far)..

[Sancho]

https://www.facebook.com/WFLANewsChannel8/videos/374481364042804

Only a TV report for now.

BREAKING: 5.6K Hillsborough County Students Sent Home into Isolation or Quarantine for COVID-19
BREAKING: 5.6K LOCAL STUDENTS SENT HOME | Hillsborough County Public Schools say 5,599 students and …

[DURHAM D]

1. What state?

[ClimateHawk]

2. Florida

[Sancho]

3. Tampa, Florida...

...here's another report that just aired from Sarasota:

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/education/2021-08-16/coronavirus-hundreds-test-positive-in-first-week-of-school-across-tampa-bay?

Coronavirus: Hundreds Test Positive In First Week Of School Across Tampa Bay

Actual case counts are almost four times higher than the district's COVID dashboard shows, according to Sarasota school board chair Shirley Brown.

Even though classes just started last week, schools in the greater Tampa Bay region have already seen hundreds of students and staff test positive for coronavirus, and thousands of people are isolating due to exposure or illness.

The numbers were generally between 10 times to 20 higher than the cases that were counted in the first week of school last year, and in Sarasota, school board chair Shirley Brown said the numbers reflected on district dashboards are far below the actual case count.

"It’s actually worse than what our dashboard shows because we are having trouble keeping up with data entry," Brown said in an email to WUSF Sunday night.