Last week, the combined middle and high school in Shepherd Public Schools went virtual with the community alerted in an email that started with the following:
“As we are all well aware by now, COVID-19 positive cases have reached a level this week we have not seen before,” it said. A separate email alerted the community that cases had hit a threshold where all four schools in the district were under a mandatory mask order.
The second email announced that 50 new cases were reported at the middle-and-high school.
On Monday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported that 46 of those cases, 31 at the high school and 15 at the middle school, were part of a single outbreak.
All 31 high school-related cases involved students, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services school-related outbreaks page. The 15 at the middle school involved staff and students.
The district itself reported an additional 18 cases in its Monday update, which noted that for the second week in a row that all four buildings had hit case counts high enough to trigger mandatory masking.
An additional 14 cases were reported in Shepherd Elementary, six higher than the threshold to require masks and 10 higher than the threshold to allow students and staff to attend school without wearing a mask. Both Winn Elementary (2) and Odyssey (1) hit minimum thresholds to require masks.
They were the only school outbreaks reported in Isabella County on Monday that took place last week. Three new outbreaks were reported in Gratiot County schools, however.
Seven staff and students were reported affected in an outbreak at Ashley High School, four students were reported affected in another outbreak at Fulton High School and three students were reported involved in an outbreak at Donald L. Pavlik Middle School in the Alma School District. It was the second outbreak at Pavlik middle in less than a month.
Meanwhile, an outbreak first reported last week at Alma High School grew to 28 cases, involving staff and students.
School-related outbreaks were relatively rare last year, owing to a dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant that didn’t affect children nearly as badly as adults, and due to virtual learning and aggressive mask-and-distancing policies in local schools.
K-12 schools now report the highest number of outbreaks by source in the state. In addition to different mask-and-distancing rules in local schools, the most dominant variant of the virus affects children.
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