How bad is COVID-19 in Arkansas? Bad. And teachers are worried. [View all]
BY Max Brantley ON August 9, 202010:19 am
Speaking of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
The newspaper’s Kat Stromquist dove today into the numbers on the positive rate in Arkansas for COVID-19 testing. It’s a subject on which we’ve previously said Governor Hutchinson has been misleading and understating the dangers in mandating resumption of in-classroom school everywhere in Arkansas.
The CDC has said a positivity rate above 5 percent is a problem sign and might be a marker against reopening.
62 of 75 Arkansas counties exceed that rate, some dramatically. Half the counties are above 10 percent. The state’s cumulative positive rate is pushing 9 percent and it was over 11 percent in the most recent week. But Hutchinson so far has stuck fast to saying ALL schools, should open five days a week, with no exceptions for special local circumstances. He refuses to allow districts to go all-virtual, though he has no problem with virtual charter schools. Kids butts will be in school desks (or on the football field), he has decreed.
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https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2020/08/09/how-bad-is-covid-19-in-arkansas-bad-and-teachers-are-worried
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