Unvaccinated teacher infected half her students with Covid, CDC finds

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/28/unvaccinated-teacher-infected-half-her-students-covid-california-cdc

An unvaccinated teacher in a California elementary school infected half her students and 26 people in total when she contracted the Covid-19 Delta variant, researchers for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found.

The researchers said the teacher attended school for two days despite displaying symptoms of Covid-19, and read aloud to her class without a mask during that time. Infections corresponded to the classroom’s seating chart, with the students sitting closest to the teacher the most likely to be infected.

Authorities said the report showed why vaccinations, masks and other prevention measures remain critical to prevent Covid-19 infections as US schools reopen. They also warned that anyone with symptoms of Covid-19 should stay home, to avoid infecting others.

“Evidence has repeatedly demonstrated that multi-layer prevention strategies – such as vaccination for all children and adults who are eligible; masks for all students, teachers, staff, and visitors; ventilation; cohorting; physical distancing; and screening testing – work to prevent the spread of Covid in schools,” said Dr Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, at a press briefing on Friday.

The report is likely to increase calls for vaccine mandates in schools, which some districts such as New York City have already implemented. Children in the California investigation, in Marin county, were too young to be vaccinated.

[Snoopy 7]

1. It time

I personally think it's about time to make a law like the HIV Law, https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/policies/law/states/exposure.html , get it out there that PEOPLE DIE and are dying. It is time for the guilty to pay for their purposeful infection of others just like the HIV infected law did to stop the infected from purposefully infecting others.

[dutch777]

2. Right on!

And if my kid got seriously ill from someone like this, part of whose job it is to keep my kid safe and healthy, I'd sue them and the school district that allowed them to be there unvaccinated in civil court for pain and suffering. Time to make a price for being stupid and selfish.

[tanyev]

3. This is why the "personal responsibility" strategy doesn't work.

[Marcuse]

4. Promulgated at the end of the Obama Administration:

42 CFR § 70.6 - Apprehension and detention of persons with quarantinable communicable diseases.

a) The Director may authorize the apprehension, medical examination, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release of any individual for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of quarantinable communicable diseases, as specified by Executive Order, based upon a finding that:

(1) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and is moving or about to move from a State into another State; or

(2) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and constitutes a probable source of infection to other individuals who may be moving from a State into another State.

(b) The Director will arrange for adequate food and water, appropriate accommodation, appropriate medical treatment, and means of necessary communication for individuals who are apprehended or held in quarantine or isolation under this part.

[82 FR 6971, Jan. 19, 2017]

[BeckyDem]

5. To me, this is criminal negligence.

I can only imagine the anger the parents must feel.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

6. Child endangerment /nt

[BeckyDem]

7. There ya go.

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