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High school back to online learning after COVID-19 outbreak
May 24, 2021
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BEND, Ore. (AP) A COVID-19 outbreak at a central Oregon high school that required nearly half its students and staff into quarantine has prompted school officials to send students back to online learning for nearly two weeks.
As of Friday afternoon, 15 staff members and students from La Pine High School had been diagnosed with COVID-19, The Bulletin reported.
A letter sent to families Friday by interim principal Anne-Marie Schmidt said that resulted in the larger quarantine. She told the newspaper that resulted in many classes taught by substitutes, and some students becoming nervous about getting sick.
Rise in COVID-19 cases, quarantines send La Pine HS back to distance learning for 2 weeks
Bend-La Pine Schools
Also makes activities and athletics impractical, principal says
La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) A recent rise in COVID-19 cases at La Pine High School, and a resulting surge in quarantined students and staff, has prompted officials to return the school to online-only learning for the next two weeks.
The Bend-La Pine Schools COVID-19 dashboard shows 156 school-related cases in the past 28 days, and La Pine High actually has had fewer cases in that period (13) tan any of the Bend high schools, including 32 at Bend Senior High.
Coronavirus updates Tuesday: Lane County reports 25 new cases, 1 new death
Register-Guard
Lane County on Tuesday reported one new COVID-19 death, raising the death toll to 151.
Lane County Public Health also reported 25 confirmed or presumptive cases of COVID-19, raising the countywide case count to 13,398.
There were 147 people considered infectious, down nine from Monday.
Twenty people were hospitalized, up two from Monday; six were in intensive care, up one from Monday; and one was on a ventilator, unchanged from Monday.
As of Monday, 167,410 residents of Lane County have been fully vaccinated, 43.9% of the population, with 360,953 first and second doses administered.
Oregon reports 424 new COVID-19 cases, 4 new deaths