Some students from the Barrie School in Silver Spring took a class trip to China. One of them got sick on the plane, and now the Chinese authorities are concerned they all might have Swine Flu. So all the students have been quarantined. Not quite the trip they hoped for. Derrick Ward has that story tonight on News4 at 5 and 6.
Showing posts with label swine flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swine flu. Show all posts
Thursday, May 28, 2009
NBC4 this evening - Barrie School kids quarantined
KIDS IN QUARANTINE
Some students from the Barrie School in Silver Spring took a class trip to China. One of them got sick on the plane, and now the Chinese authorities are concerned they all might have Swine Flu. So all the students have been quarantined. Not quite the trip they hoped for. Derrick Ward has that story tonight on News4 at 5 and 6.
Some students from the Barrie School in Silver Spring took a class trip to China. One of them got sick on the plane, and now the Chinese authorities are concerned they all might have Swine Flu. So all the students have been quarantined. Not quite the trip they hoped for. Derrick Ward has that story tonight on News4 at 5 and 6.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Millions for Tech Toys, None for Public Health
As the swine flu spreads across Montgomery County, with Rockville High School closed this morning, and children at Einstein High School, and Takoma Park and Westland middle schools at risk, it appears you as a taxpayer have decided to spend millions and millions of dollars on tech toys like Promethean Boards, wigen gadgets and more, yet have made the decision to spend zero on Public Health.
A quick survey indicates MCPS and your elected Board of Education have no plan to swab the schools, or offer even a minimal plan to control the spread of this flu. At the same time the World Health Organization on April 29 raised the level to a Phase 5 pandemic. According to the CDC website,
A Phase 5 alert is a “strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short.”
From what I can tell, teachers are not even being told to remind their students to wash hands frequently, and cough or sneeze into a tissue. While free reminder posters are available from CDC, where are they in the schools?
The County and your elected Board of Education has had at least two years to prepare for this event. Not even the simplest measures were or are being taken.
If there is a Public Health plan for the public schools, I sure would like to see it.
For those of you with no soap in the bathrooms, as I understand may be true in some schools in the county, boy, are you out of luck.
A quick survey indicates MCPS and your elected Board of Education have no plan to swab the schools, or offer even a minimal plan to control the spread of this flu. At the same time the World Health Organization on April 29 raised the level to a Phase 5 pandemic. According to the CDC website,
A Phase 5 alert is a “strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short.”
From what I can tell, teachers are not even being told to remind their students to wash hands frequently, and cough or sneeze into a tissue. While free reminder posters are available from CDC, where are they in the schools?
The County and your elected Board of Education has had at least two years to prepare for this event. Not even the simplest measures were or are being taken.
If there is a Public Health plan for the public schools, I sure would like to see it.
For those of you with no soap in the bathrooms, as I understand may be true in some schools in the county, boy, are you out of luck.
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