Sarasota County school officials plan for rising COVID-19 cases as school begins
Kimberly Kuizon reports
SARASOTA, Fla. - With less than a week before school starts, rising COVID-19 numbers are a concern for staff, parents, and teachers.
In Sarasota County, school board members focused on practices that worked last year, including sanitization, contact tracing and social distancing. Since July, 21 staff members and 72 students have tested positive for COVID-19 in the county. We are here in an optional mask situation and I pray to God we are not doing something very bad to our children, said school board member Jane Goodwin. I know we’ve had children at All Children s in St. Petersburg from here. I know several camps have had outbreaks of young children who are ill.