Marinscope
Is the COVID pandemic over? Not by a long shot and you only have to look at what happened at Neil Cummins Elementary School in Corte Madera in the last two weeks to be reminded of that.
On Nov. 9, the Marin County Health and Human Services Department was notified by a health care provider that two children of so far unidentified parents had been tested for COVID and one of them had tested positive. The parents were told, according to published reports, to keep both children out of school.
The parents sent the kids to school anyway. No one — either the parents or county health, notified the school. The kids went to school beginning Nov. 9 and it wasn’t until Nov. 18 the school found out.
That sent the school scrambling to deal with the exposure. In the end, eight children at the school tested positive for COVID and 75 kids were quarantined.
Dr. Lisa Santora, deputy public health officer, told the Independent Journal that this is first time such a protocol breach has occurred in Marin during the pandemic.
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