CLICK TO HEAR PART ONE OF JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH COBY FLETCHER
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A sizeable portion of the Escanaba Area Schools student population is in quarantine because of COVID-19 concerns.
Superintendent Coby Fletcher says it amounts to about ten percent of the district’s 2,300 students, but there are no outbreaks in their school buildings…that is, the positive tests that are occurring are of transmission that happened in places outside of the actual schools.
And Fletcher says that “very few” of the kids who have tested positive are showing any symptoms at all.
He says that about 80-percent of Escanaba’s students are taking in-person classes, with others taking on-line and mixed delivery methods. Fletcher says the 14-day quarantine rule is required by the local health department not only for someone who tested positive, but also for those “close contacts”. That is anyone who was within six feet of that person for at least 15 minutes, and in many cases, are family members of someone who tested positive.
Fletcher says he’s confident the school year can continue, and there are no plans right now to close down in-person instruction.
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