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State Attorney Melissa Nelson on Thursday announced indictments by a Duval County grand jury charging four people in unrelated cases with first-degree murder.
As the 2021-22 school year quickly approaches, community members in Jacksonville are pleading with Duval Schools to put a mask mandate in place to protect students against COVID-19.
Now, as Duval County deals with a new surge of COVID-19 cases and high hospitalization rates, health experts are joining the conversation.
On Monday evening, a group of several local doctors and health specialists gathered on Zoom for a public webinar encouraging masking up in schools. The school board and superintendent are in a very difficult situation and perhaps an untenable situation, Dr. Jeff Goldhagen a pediatric doctor and health professor, said. But there’s a right thing to do. Our other elected officials need to take that stand.
On Facebook, a Fletcher High School parent who asked not to be named because they also work for the school district said they and their child both contracted COVID-19 at freshman orientation.
It s hard to say how many of the logged cases were contracted on school grounds and how many others went unreported.
The first day of school is next Tuesday, Aug. 10. In response to the number of cases people within the Duval Schools community had this summer, parent Matt Hartley said the number felt ominous to him. I sent my kids to Duval Schools summer camps earlier in the summer, he said. They were masked, many were not. We thought it was safe now we know it s not.