In Washoe County, Nevada, more than 58% of residents are fully vaccinated -- a lot better than the overall U.S. rate of 48%. Yet in Reno, Washoe's biggest city, one parent found a way to tank COVID safety for 80-some kids at Marce Herz Middle School on their very first day back to class.
That's how many kids were exposed to one student whom a parent sent to school despite knowing the child was COVID-positive.
Whether that parent is a snarling Trumpist or a dingbat or both we don't know. The identities and genders of the COVID-positive pair -- because the parent was COVID-positive too -- haven't been disclosed. We do know they wouldn't talk to county health officials.
The school will let the exposed kids back into school if they can show they're fully vaccinated. Those who aren't vaccinated can go back August 17 -- if they can show a negative test dated after August 14.
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If you were a fellow parent with a child at that middle school, wouldn't you be hopping mad?
Should the parent be charged with a crime for sending the contagious child to school? Child endangerment? Assault with a deadly weapon?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/us/reno-nevada-school-covid-exposure/index.html
Photo: "I hate you COVID" by Matthew Almon Roth is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
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