Tennessee high school coach’s death underscores dangers of school reopenings and sports
A Tennessee high school football coach and teacher, 55-year-old David Picklesimer, died of COVID-19 on Sunday, becoming the latest of hundreds of educators that have died from the virus across the US. Picklesimer taught digital arts and design at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro, in Rutherford County.
Picklesimer passed away less than a week after Jeremy Morgan, a 44-year-old football coach at Forney High School in Forney, Texas, died of complications from COVID-19 on December 7. Also in Texas, a husband and wife both died from COVID-19 on Sunday. Paul Blackwell, 61, was a coach and taught physical education, while his wife Rose Mary, 65, was a bilingual second-grade teacher for over 20 years. Both taught in Grand Prairie, Texas.