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Garfield County Public Health and Roaring Fork Schools are cooperating with Colorado public health officials to investigate possible exposure at a Glenwood Springs school to coronavirus disease variant.
Local officials were made aware by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment that a Sopris Elementary student “and/or” staff member may have been exposed to one of the different COVID variants earlier this month.
“The health department is working with a dedicated team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to determine potential exposure and contain any further spread,” Garfield Public Health said in a Saturday morning press release.
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Garfield County Public Health and Roaring Fork Schools are cooperating with Colorado public health officials to investigate possible exposure at a Glenwood Springs school to a coronavirus disease variant.
Local officials were made aware by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment that a Sopris Elementary student “and/or” staff member may have been exposed to one of the different COVID variants earlier in January.
“The health department is working with a dedicated team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to determine potential exposure and contain any further spread,” Garfield Public Health advised in a Saturday press release.
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It was a team effort to keep schools in the Roaring Fork District open for in-person instruction this year.
Terri Hailey, a student health aid at Sopris Elementary school in her 12th year, said everyone has done their part teachers, faculty, students and parents included and it often required completing tasks that weren’t necessarily in one’s job description.
“The way everyone has come together and made this work no matter what their role is in the school, for instance our principal emptying the trash or having her direct traffic,” Hailey said.
Yvette Blanc, nurse for the Roaring Fork School District, is in charge of training health aids in the district and coordinating with the public health department to establish regulations that will keep schools’ doors open and those who enter healthy to the best of their abilities.