“I felt a little scared because other people can get the virus too,” she said. She saw staff cleaning lockers when they returned to their classroom. She was off Monday and decided to pick up her children early after she drove past the school while running errands and saw a long line of cars as other parents picked up their children.Įighth-grader Karely Camarillo said her class was kept in the school’s auditorium until around 10 a.m. So far, she has decided she will not send her children back until “I know there’s nothing serious and they clean the school top to bottom.” She’s balancing that with concern for her children getting infected - the district did not specify if students might have come in contact with the quarantined employee. Tishina Miller, who has a daughter at the middle school and a son at the elementary school, said she is worried about taking off work if school closes because she does not have paid time off to take care of her children. So far, the employee has “not exhibited any signs or symptoms of illness following the contact” and currently poses “absolutely no risk” to students or staff. If symptoms develop, the person will be tested, said Director Alisa Haushalter. The Shelby County Health Department recommended the Shelby County Schools employee stay at home for 14 days to see if they develop any symptoms of the new coronavirus. While some Memphis parents were satisfied with a “cautionary quarantine” of a school employee assigned to Treadwell Elementary and Treadwell Middle who came in contact with the area’s first COVID-19 patient, other parents are keeping their children home.īut delayed communication to Spanish-speaking parents and at least one Treadwell Middle School teacher urging students to call their parents to pick them up early from school created confusion and long car lines outside on Monday. Superintendent Joris Ray said the employee is scheduled to return to work after spring break. “We’re cooperating with Tennessee Department of Health in order to get to the bottom of how this happened,” said Randolph.Update, March 11, 2020: The Shelby County Health Department has cleared the employee to go back to work as of Tuesday evening, which marks 14 days since he came in contact with the COVID-19 patient.
Bruce Randolph with the Shelby County Health Department acknowledged the investigation during a virtual Shelby County Commissioners meeting Monday.
The Tennessee Department of Health said it plans to release more details about its investigation Tuesday afternoon.ĭr. State officials say they plan to review Shelby County’s vaccine handling practices and that it plans to assess the county’s inventory of vaccines. The Pfizer vaccine lasts for just five days once removed from a freezer. Haushalter said a Regional One Health pharmacist that is contracted to handle the county’s Covid vaccines had taken the doses out of the freezer in preparation for vaccinations, but when planned vaccinations were canceled due to weather, didn’t notify the health department that the 1,315 were out of the freezer and spoiling. Alisa Haushalter, who heads the Shelby County Health Department, said that the expired vaccines were discovered the previous Friday.
– Days after the Shelby County Health Department revealed that 1,315 doses of the Pfizer vaccine had to be thrown out because they had expired, the Tennessee Department of Health has announced that it will be investigating the matter.įriday, Dr. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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