Overrun with COVID-19, John Adams Middle School moves eighth graders to distance learning for two weeks
This marks the first time since Rochester students returned to in-person learning that an entire grade at a school has had to revert back to distance learning. 5:08 pm, May 7, 2021 ×
John Adams Middle School announced Friday that it would move its eighth grade class to distance learning for two weeks due to an increase in COVID-related absences.
Rochester Public SchoolsCommunications Director Heather Nessler was unable to quantify what percentage of the eighth-grade class was in quarantine or ill. But, she said it was large enough to justify the decision.
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Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Public Health team up with Rochester Public Schools to scan the air for COVID
Several prominent organizations in Rochester are teaming up on a pilot project with the hopes of being able to detect positive cases of COVID-19 a little faster than normal.
On Tuesday, the Rochester School Board approved a research request from Mayo Clinic that ideally will be able to detect COVID-19 pathogens in the air. The board approved the study unanimously after discussing the proposal with representatives from Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Public Health, and the company Thermo Fisher Scientific.
A representative for Olmsted County Public Health said overall they have either vaccinated or are scheduled to vaccinate around 200 people through the in-school clinics thus far.
Olmsted County Public Health staff, as well as public health professionals throughout the world, have spent countless hours working to limit the damage due to the pandemic. Locally, we have asked nearly all our public health staff to shift from the jobs they were hired to do to new work duties related to pandemic response.