SJSD Covid Cases (9-15-20)

SJSD Covid Cases (9-15-20)

Total staff and student covid-19 cases..

Those numbers according to the most recent figures from the st.

Joseph district... but the concern..coming in the amount of students and staff in quarantine... kq2's chris roush joins us live in studio with more... the questions being raised regarding covid- 19 and the st.

Joseph school district... stem from who is quaratined and how it's decided..

Per friday's latest numbers, the district releases the numbers once a week, there are 212 students..

And 48 staff in quarantine... with the rise in individuals quarantine... it's impacting a lot of schools in the district... and also sports and competitions..

While the district does not release if individual teams have a covid-19 case.... we've seen a lot of teams reschedule or move games in two week increments... district officials say a lot goes into what mandates an individual being quaratined and in turn..

Impacting classrooms and activities... and it starts with the partnership with the health department... (sot, robert sigrist: "i think it's a really great partnership that we have with the city and the health departmenttrying to work through those processes.

We want to share as much information as we can with them to make sure our student-athletes safe and they're doing the best they can and sometimes that contact tracing takes some time to contact all of those people, we're working to do that with them, too.") another contributing factor to the number of quarantined students and staff compared to this summer when the district did not have a report of a student- athlete testing positive... now, you have students in classroom for 7 1/2 hours together and also teams, they spent the summer working in smaller groups, but now they're around all of their teammates, and obviousyly competing against different schools...district officials say if you're student or students are a close contact to positive case, that individual school will send a letter, an email or a phone call to notify you if you're student needs to quaratnine... on a good note... linbergh elementary set to reopen for students and staff on wednesday, september