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8. NYT: Iidiana opens and closes school first day back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/us/schools-reopening-indiana-coronavirus.html

A School Reopens, and the Coronavirus Creeps In
As more schools abandon plans for in-person classes, one that opened in Indiana this week had to quarantine students within hours.

A student at Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, the first day of school.Credit...AJ Mast for The New York Times By Eliza Shapiro, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio and Shawn Hubler Aug. 1, 2020

One of the first school districts in the country to reopen its doors during the coronavirus pandemic did not even make it a day before being forced to grapple with the issue facing every system actively trying to get students into classrooms: What happens when someone comes to school infected?

Just hours into the first day of classes on Thursday, a call from the county health department notified Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana that a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Administrators began an emergency protocol, isolating the student and ordering everyone who had come into close contact with the person, including other students, to quarantine for 14 days. It is unclear whether the student infected anyone else.

“We knew it was a when, not if,” said Harold E. Olin, superintendent of the Greenfield-Central Community School Corporation, but were “very shocked it was on Day 1.”