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The prospects for safe, in-person classes continues to brighten â with new research on the limited spread of the virus within schools as well as development of a safe, highly effective vaccines.
Payson continued in-person instruction this week with few problems, thanks to the vaccination of most of the teachers. Some 56 students had tested positive on all four campuses, which includes eight at Payson Elementary School, five at Julia Randall Elementary, 14 at Rim Country Middle School and 29 at the high school. Another 16 faculty and staff have tested positive, with six of those at PES and three at RCMS. Another three people have reported COVID-like symptoms, with reported test results.
Paysonâs return to in-person classes is going much more smoothly, now that most of the teachers have gotten vaccinated.
The district had 46 positive cases among students and 16 among staff for the week ending on Feb. 26.
However, since the return to in-person classes, only one unvaccinated teacher has been quarantined due to an infection or close exposure to a positive case, according to Superintendent Linda Gibson.
That contrasts sharply with clusters that developed before the teachers started getting shots, which forced so many teachers into quarantine the district had to at different times shut down the high school and the middle school.
Elizabeth Victoria English, 12, a student at Rim Country Middle School, died of COVID in December.
Her death was sudden and unexpected â no one even knew she had COVID.
Her mother, Carrie English, contacted the
Roundup to share her daughterâs story and make parents aware of the COVID-19 complication of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).
While most children who become infected with the COVID-19 virus have mild symptoms, MIS-C is a serious condition that appears to be linked to COVID-19.
Englishâs parents did not know sheâd contracted COVID-19 until after her death when an antibody test done by Phoenix Childrenâs Hospital came back positive. She had in fact had the coronavirus, but had been asymptomatic. The rest of the English family had tested negative for COVID-19.