De reopening of schools remains in rocky start. Around the country, more than 1,500 students and staff from nine districts in seven states are quarantined after positive cases at schools that had just reopened. One school in Georgia had to be shut off for cleaning. Despite 35 positive cases, it will reopen Monday for instruction.
Some parents who want a return to class are protesting outside of Pittsburgh.
“My son has barely had conversations with other children since March. It’s very difficult,” said Hillary Lohr, a Mt. Parent of Lebanon.
Other parents, such as Lorin Munchick of Miami Beach, plan to improvise, and school his daughter Aria with a small group at home in so-called “pandemic pods.”
“A 4-year-old on an iPad doesn’t learn,” Munchick said.
If his daughter’s school were to open for instruction in person, Munchick replied that he would not send her. “We’re just trying to figure it out when we go along,” he said.
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Meanwhile, the count of those killed by coronavirus in the US has reached 1500 people in just one day. That is a number that has not been seen since May when a large part of the country was still on lockdown.
On Thursday, Florida claimed 9,000 coronavirus deaths. When Dr Anthony Fauci, the doctor at the top of Infectious Disease, was asked if the country was close to reaching its peak for cases or deaths, he was not optimistic.
“We are certainly not where I hope we would be,” he said. “Bottom line is, I’m not happy with how things are going.”
CDC Director Dr Robert Redfield warned if people do not follow COVID-19 safety guidelines, the upcoming flu season could make things even worse.
“This may be the worst case, from a public health perspective, that we’ve ever had,” Redfield said.
In the sports world, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones explained that when the NFL start up, fans are welcome.
Yet the pandemics are economic toll remains public. In the South Bronx of New York, there were long lines for a food donation.
And the personal toll continues as well. A Florida family has been devastated as two doctors, father and son, both died of COVID-19 five weeks apart. Dr. Jorge Vallejo fled Cuba and became a renowned physician in Hialeah. His son Carlos followed in his footsteps and had cared for more than 70 patients with coronavirus.
When asked what her legacy is, Charlie Vallejo said, “I’m in medical school, my brother in medical school, my sister in nursing school. We become doctors and treat our patients the way he taught us to to treat patients. “
He is now a third year medical student. He said despite the risk of the pandemic, and the loss his family is already suffering, this is their calling.
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