School district . What should be the next steps . This is perhaps an instructive case. This is one of the first School Districts in the country to open to facetoface instruction. I would say it shouldnt be surprising they had a number of positive cases right off the bat. I think thats going to be the case all across the country. Then unfortunately what happened is because they did not really have social distancing measures in place, they did not have universal masking. Cases were very, very high. So i think lessons to be learned here are, if youre a School District looking to have inface, inperson instruction, its so important to make sure that you have social distancing in place, that you have masking. That way when those positive cases come, the number of exposures will be much lower. I think the second big lesson is that really, every school needs to have a plan for online instruction. Because as weve seen in this School District, you may rapidly have a need to convert to online ins
Concern over a cruise ship connected to a coronavirus death headed towards bay area waters. Passengers on board say theyre concerned. And previously abc 7 news starts right now. Live breaking news. And that breaking news is aspire Monarch Academy in oakland has closed for the rest of the week because of possible coronavirus. A staff member may have been exposed to the virus but thats not confirmed. It will give them time to assess the risk. Reporter following the states first coronavirus death, the victim an eltderly man placer countedy. Reporter just days before his death he was on a cruise ship from San Francisco to mexico. That ship then went on another trip. They did develop cruz and was still symptomatic on the return trip. The governor says everyone will be tested. We are going to be flying testing kits to the cruise ship. Reporter the man who died was one of three diagnosed with coronavirus. One from sonoma county. Unclear when the ship will return to San Francisco. Now, this tr
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