Unvaccinated teacher infected 18 students

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) dissemination office released the result of the report made on the case of an elementary school teacher who refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and infected at least 18 students to teach with Covid-19 and without a mask.

In early September, the CDC reported the case of an educational community in Marin County, California, one of the districts worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

At some point between May 23 and June 12, 2021, 24 cases of Covid-19 were detected as a result of the Delta variant in an educational community and the origin of all infections was a teacher who had started to feel a headache. , fever and cough on May 19.

The woman taught for two days thinking she had an allergy until tested for Covid-19 on May 21. By then, it had already infected teachers, students and even parents.

Of the teacher’s 24 students, 22 tested positive for the coronavirus and at least 18 of those cases were the product of variant B.1.617.2, i.e. Delta.

“El índice de ataque en las dos filas más cercanas al escritorio de la docente fue del 80% (8 de cada 10 estudiantes se contagió), y del 28% en las tres filas del fondo”, explicaron desde la entidad that revisa cuestiones sanitarias in the USA.

Including the teacher, 27 people have been affected by the epidemic, including eight parents and teachers in addition to the 18 students, who are in different classes of the school.

Among school staff, only the teacher who was “zero case” and one other person had not received the coronavirus vaccine, Minuto Uno published.