Three Arizona teachers contracted coronaviruses but only two survived. This is what they want you to know

07/14/2020 USA


Despite the following protocols: social distancing, wearing masks and gloves, and using hand sanitizer, everyone was sick with the coronavirus.
Kimberley Chávez López Byrd, 61, died on June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. She had worked for the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years.
The two surviving teachers, Jena Martinez and Angela Skillings, spoke to CNN’s Don Lemon on CNN Monday night and said it is not yet certain that the children or teachers will return to the classroom.
As states across the country prepare to reopen schools for classroom learning, teachers are trying to find the safest way to resume education in person.

While some schools have given the option of online courses, others are still working on plans to return to the classroom.

Martinez said that when they started studying online from campus, they had plans in place to keep them safe from the virus.

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We follow everything we are supposed to do, “Martinez said, noting the CDC guidelines and his own school’s mandate on how to safely return to campus.” While we were there, we drifted apart. “

But that didn’t stop everyone from catching the virus, with Byrd being the first. The other teachers received a call that their colleague was in the hospital, they had been tested for Covid-19 and were to be placed on a ventilator.

Martinez and Skillings say that even with good hygiene practices, it is too early to return. They know this because they have experienced it first hand.

“Schools are not ready to open,” Skillings told Lemon, adding that the schools are slated to reopen in Arizona on August 17.

Skillings noted that schools have been closed since March, so there is no sure way to know that transmission between children in schools will not be a problem.

“There is no documentation that children do not transmit it from one place to another in the classroom or that it does not severely affect them,” Skillings said. “Our schools are not ready. We are not ready to open. We are supposed to open on August 17 and there is no way that even teachers are ready for that to happen.”

Still recovering from the effects of the virus

Even though surviving teachers have started receiving negative tests, they are still experiencing the residual effects of the virus.

Skillings said that while the first few days with the virus were not so bad, she began to experience fever, cough, and body aches.

“At first mine was light and easy. But after about two weeks it started to get tough,” said Skillings. Even a month later, you still feel the effects of the virus. “I’m in the fourth week and I still have a cough and sometimes fatigue.”

Martinez told Lemon that one of the main symptoms of the coronavirus he suffered from was a terrible fever.

“My symptoms appeared when fatigue came first,” he said, adding that his symptoms “started to appear” after the test.

“It wasn’t until that Friday, when my fever started, that it got much worse. And I was like that for almost two weeks. And once the fever started, I felt like I was seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.”

Although she has returned to analyze negatively, Martínez said that she must still be treated for the virus that has weakened and tired her.

“I am still taking breathing treatments to relieve tightness in my chest. There is still weakness in my body and fatigue,” he said.

CNN’s Jennifer Henderson contributed to this report.

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