49 Kentucky public school workers dead from COVID

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1. Alabama isn't reporting school COVID outbreaks

Published: 6:42 a.m.
By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes and Trisha Powell Crain

... the state is not publicly reporting any outbreaks in school settings. And while the state is publishing a weekly dashboard of reported cases, schools and public health officials are not investigating all cases -- making it impossible for the public to identify outbreaks and raising concerns among parents, who are trying to monitor potential exposures themselves.

“Based on widespread community transmission and the number of daily positive COVID-19 cases and close contacts, the Department of Public Health is unable to investigate, contact trace or issue quarantine orders for all positive cases and close contacts,” Dr. Karen Landers, of the state Department Public of Health, said in September.

Leah Dueffer, a parent in Vestavia Hills where masks are now optional, says her district’s decision not to contact trace means she never knows whether she’s sending her children into a safe environment ...

https://www.al.com/educationlab/2021/10/alabama-isnt-reporting-school-covid-outbreaks-contact-tracing-heres-why.html