Shirley Duggan, 77, died of COVID-19 Aug. 15, according to the Brantley County School District. The deaths so far are enough to worry educators and school staff in some districts. In Florida, teacher vacancies this year increased by more than 67% compared with August 2020, . The more than 46,000 people in Florida who have died from Covid-19 since the pandemic began includes over 36,000 seniors aged 65 and older. What made her life any less than any of these huge companies that are having their employees work from home? Vasquez asked. News helicopters flying over Miami have shown video footage of very long lines of cars waiting early in the morning for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) site at Miami-Dade College to be opened, and reports are emerging that many who were not eligible under current state guidelines were still able to receive shots there last week. Stephanie Yocum, president of the Polk Education Associate, criticized the state's "laissez-faire" approach to the situation "as far as the mitigation strategies and being very restrictive to local government from local school boards and what we can and can't do.". Ever since her school district announced a return to in-person classes last October, the 26-year-old has been frustrated by the decisions made by local and state leaders. Teachers are next in line for the Covid vaccine. DeSantis Expands Monoclonal Antibody Treatments Amid COVID-19 Spike, Florida's Governor Says School Leaders' Salary May Be Withheld If They Require Masks, An 8th-Grader Finally Returns To School In Person, Hoping It Lasts. A student arrives for the first day of classes on Aug. 23 at a public school in Miami Lakes, Fla. Official Government reports confirming eight times more people died due to Covid-19 vaccination within six months of the vaccine rollout than had died of Covid-19 within eighteen months are extremely worrying and evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines currently on offer should have been withdrawn from public use nearly 2 years ago. This claim is false. But since students at his school started returning to the classroom, the 24-year-old says hes felt unsafe. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg/Getty Images, has withheld funding from two school districts. Lena Marcella Jackson, 61, died from COVID-19 July 25. Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; [1] November 19, 1933 - January 23, 2021) was an American television and radio host, whose awards included 2 Peabodys, an Emmy and 10 Cable ACE Awards. Polk County Public Schools say a dozen employees have died from the coronavirus since school began on Aug. 10, according to multiple outlets. At least 13 employees of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools have died from complications of COVID-19 since Aug. 16, according to district officials. Jackson previously worked for Florida School for the Deaf and Blind for 15 years before joining St. Johns County School District where she had worked for the past decade. The right-wing media have leaned even harder into vaccine skepticism. (The other is Georgia.). SEATTLE, WA - JANUARY 29: People wait in line for a last-minute COVID-19 vaccine event at Seattle University after a freezer failure at a nearby hospital on January 29, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. Gotreaux said she was on the fence about it until she heard that the superintendent and some board members at a school board meeting refused a request to put on a mask in honor of one of the fallen teachers. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much The district said it has ordered approximately 50,000 desk shields and expects the installation to be complete "within another month," per WESH2 News. "I think because they scream louder, [he thinks] there must be more of them than the constituents that are taking this virus really [seriously] and want to be safe and secure.". Every death in this pandemic matters, she added. Following her passing, Hollis husband shared the following post on Facebook: We are heartbroken. The four teachers in Montgomery, Alabama, who died within 48 hours of each other. The deaths were all recorded within a 24-hour span, according to union officials representing employees of the local school district. For more information or to donate, click here. Obviously, nothing about being a Republican makes someone inherently anti-vaccine. He has won praise from conservatives across the nation for his rejection of lockdowns and measures like vaccine passports, positioning DeSantis for a possible 2024 presidential run if former President Donald Trump chooses not to mount a bid. Workers in essential industries had nearly twice the death rate as those with "non-essential" positions. To qualify for state funding, every school district in Texas is required to offer an in-person learning option unless the state makes an exception due to high coronavirus spread. Thankfully the NHS data informs us that just 3,832 people actually died OF Covid-19 within 28 days of a positive test result in England hospitals between March 2020 and August 25th 2021. At least 13 staff members within the Miami-Dade County public school district have died due to coronavirus since the middle of last month, a union leader said. They link political party and excess-death ratethe percent increase in deaths above pre-COVID levelsamong those registered as either Democrats or Republicans, providing a more granular view. Between Aug. 6 and Aug. 12 state officials recorded 151,415 new cases of the virus, 14,675 of which were in Broward County. Although we still cant say these decisions led to higher death rates, the association alone is jarring. Y'all-itics: From COVID-19 hotspot to vaccine mecca: A look at what's happened in Potter County. Shell played college football at Jacksonville University and spent several years in the Canadian Football League. Read it at . Only Texas has lost more officers to COVID-19 than Florida, with 151 of its 160 line-of-duty deaths due to the coronavirus. They chose to analyze data from Florida and Ohio from before and after vaccines were available. According to the posts, the CDC stated that the other 94% of people died from other causes, and that only 9,210 people have died from COVID-19. A recent study found that from October 2020 to February 2021, the death rate in Republican-leaning counties was up to three times higher than that of Democratic-leaning counties, likely because of differences in masking and social distancing. She was like her grandmother. Even with this new research, it is difficult to determine just how many people died as a result of their political views. About a third of Americansmore than a hundred million peoplehave yet to get their initial shots. Congressional districts controlled by a trifecta of Republican leadersstate governor, Senate, and Househad an 11 percent higher death rate, according to the Lancet study. Gotreaux said she feels immense guilt over the decision, knowing that some people might believe that she just wanted extra time off or that she didnt care enough about her students. "This sad statistic underscores the impact of misinformation and disinformation efforts through some vocal entities, who quite frankly profess anything but scientific reality," Carvalho said. Other politicians, such as Texas Governor Greg Abbott, made all COVID-vaccine mandates illegal in their state. But by publishing those figures they accidentally revealed that 30,305 people had died within 21 days of having a Covid-19 vaccine in England between January 2nd and July 2nd 2021. Kevin Brown, executive director of the Texas Association of School Administrators, said he understands how educators are feeling. She was the best thing to happen to our family! Losing a colleague to the virus encapsulates many of the safety concerns that Vasquez and her coworkers have been feeling in recent weeks. Based on Public Health Scotland data seen in the following chart it would seem the top pre-existing condition of those whove died with a positive test result for Covid-19 has been dementia, followed by heart disease and chronic respiratory disease. Two educators in the same Georgia school district died within hours from Covid-19, What is the magic number for them? Gotreaux said. Recently, a teacher at another school in Vasquezs district a woman she worked with for four years in a previous job died of complications from Covid-19. Since the first death attributable to COVID-19 was reported in the United States on Feb. 29, 2020, an estimated 612,973 Americans have died and as . A further 123,796 people also died 21 days or more after having the Covid-19 vaccine, but its impossible to know the exact parameters for the other deaths. The number of student and teacher infections and deaths will almost certainly continue to increase. Her passing came two days after her mother's death from the same disease. Ron DeSantis (R) and Broward County's school board, which has opted to defy the. The deaths come just days before Broward County schools are . But when Covid-19 cases began rising sharply around December, that didnt happen. You're not injecting anything in your body. Three teachers in Florida's second-largest school district have died from Covid-19 within two days of each other, union officials say. She had a bit of a gypsy soul. A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Three county educators have died of complications from the coronavirus. She worked throughout the summer to ensure our students were ready for the transition to a new school and there were days we had to tell her to go home.. Johnson Middle School teacher Elizabeth Toro died this week of COVID-19. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. Therefore 30,305 people died within 21 days of having the Covid-19 vaccine in England during the first 6 months of 2021. And then there are parents who fear that remote learning is causing children to fall behind or who cannot afford other child care arrangements during the day. Dax Gonzalez, division director of governmental relations for the Texas Association of School Boards, said that local school trustees are balancing the competing needs of their communities, administrators and teachers. Since they reopened on October 9, Broward County has had 2,279 students and 1,627 employees test positive for COVID-19. He died Aug. 9, according to his obituary. The data, however imperfect, demand a reckoning with the consequences of such a strategy not only during the pandemic but over the past few decades, and in the years to come. A A MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. / NBC6 Fifteen staffers of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District have died from COVID-19 in the past 10 days, officials said. PCR test notorious for producing false positives, Perfect 10: Charlie Coyle leads surging Bruins past Rangers, Three-goal second period lifts Sabres over Lightning, UK Science Minister Says ChatGPT Could Play A Role In Government. In districts around the country, several teachers who spoke to CNN reported being at their wits end: constantly being asked to do more with less while feeling like their anxieties arent being heard. School counselor Jennifer Susko is one of hundreds of Cobb County teachers and staff who protested over Covid-19 safety concerns during a school board meeting on January 21, 2021. (AP) Teachers in at least three states have died after bouts with the . Experts say that education programs -- long devalued on and off many . Dozens offreedom of information requestswere made to Public Health England (PHE); now known as the UK Health Security AGency (UKHSA) during this period requesting to know how many people have died within 28 days of having a Covid-19 vaccine, but each and every time PHE claimed they did not hold the information requested. Trump disparaged vaccines while president, even after orchestrating Operation Warp Speed. In Manatee, 206,729 people, or about 58% of residents 12 years old and older, have received at least one dose of the. She had been a school bus driver in Brantley County for nearly 20 years. AshLee DeMarinis, 34, who taught special education at a middle school in Potosi, Missouri, died Sunday after three weeks on a ventilator; she had expressed fear about in-person teaching amid. O'FALLON, Mo. COVIDs high Republican death rates are not an isolated phenomenon but a continuation of this trend. COVID They were teachers and coaches. Overall, 31 workers in 100,000 died of COVID in 2020. Insider spoke with a Florida math teacher about teaching in COVID-19 hotspot Broward County. While I have only been here and known Mr. Rivers a short time, his passion for students and for education was immediately evident. She was a science and social studies teacher at Wacona Elementary in Waycross. I dont feel like people have compassion towards that or if they truly understand that that is what we do.. 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About a third of Americansmore than a hundred million peoplehave. The culture around social distancing and other safety protocols seemed to ease up over time, with no one strictly enforcing the rules, he said. The state now has seen 17 deaths, and American Academy of Pediatrics Florida President Lisa Gwynn said many of them may have had underlying medical conditions when they became infected. Discovery Company. They were teachers and coaches. As you can see above, 14,265 people died within 21 days of having the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and 4,388 people died within 21 days of having the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine whose death allegedly involved Covid-19. 'The end of the beginning.' The survey, conducted in December, included responses from . The Biden administrations COVID blunders are no doubt to blame for some of the nations deaths. But Walensky also said the parts of the country where the CDC is monitoring surges have not implemented CDC guidance on masking children and vaccines. The impromptu overnight event was one of three in the city, organized late at night at two University of Washington vaccine clinics and one Swedish Health Services vaccine clinic, to ensure COVID-19 vaccine doses from an area hospital did not go to waste. Thank you for all the prayers! The deaths also pose a political threat to Gov. But by far the single group of adults most likely to be unvaccinated is Republicans: 37 percent of Republicans are still unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated, compared with 9 percent of Democrats. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. "The whole excitement of going back was just running through our teachers when we went back to work on Wednesday," Fusco told NPR by phone Saturday. Of these 86.315 all died of other serious pre-existing conditions including dementia, chronic kidney disease, chronic pulmonary disease, chronic neurological disease, and . We almost feel as if we are being selfish if were saying were afraid to get sick, she said while choking up. It reads in part: She never hesitated to offer her support to anyone in need. Marks wife, Sherry, was also hospitalized but recovered. Talk about teachers and pupils who wanted to wear masks & got suspended? She had previously taught at Nease High School, working with special needs students. You are risking your life every day going to work, she said. Though the former school superintendent currently represents other superintendents and administrators, hes been a teacher and principal, too. Poyner was the student pastor and Bible teacher at Northside Baptist Church/Christian Academy in Starke. So far, 433 Polk County school employees and 3,434 students have tested positive for COVID since the school year began, according to the district's coronavirus dashboard. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from the CDC, WHO and local public health departments. When decisions are made about the lives of teachers, teachers need to be involved in those discussions, he said. Other factors could explain the higher death rate in Republican-leaning placesmore poverty, less education, worse socioeconomic conditionsthough Woolf said he isnt convinced that those factors arent related to bad state health policy too. It feels scary to go to your job and not know if you could catch this deadly virus and potentially bring it back home to family members who are already vulnerable, he said. Because thelatest datasetpublished on 21st February 2023, confirms COVID Vaccination increases a persons risk of death by up to 276%. The list includes support staff and retirees as well as teachers. Two months after China ended "zero Covid," rough estimates suggest that between 1 and 1.5 million people died far more than the official count. Health outcomes have been diverging at the state level since the 90s, Steven Woolf, an epidemiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, told me. The syndrome, also known as MIS-C, is an inflammation of the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A message from the Pine Island Academy principal was sent to families, stating that Harringtons commitment to her students was never in doubt. In October, more than 100 teachers in Austin stayed home on the first day of in-person classes despite the districts orders. Christopher Terrazas, who teaches English and language arts to sixth graders in the same San Antonio school district, considers teaching his true calling and cares deeply about his students. Nationally, there were more than 750,000 new Covid infections in children from Aug. 5 to Sept. 2, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Johnny Louis/Getty Images All three worked at elementary schools and . Carvalho told reporters, I expect the next school year to be at a different level of normalcy, it would not be the old normal, it will be the new normal. When Runcie and Carvalho describe a new normalcy regarding face-to-face learning, they mean that for the ruling class the lives of educators such as Carol Zuckerman are very much an acceptable price to be paid. And how teachers feel about their situations and the recourse they have varies widely from district to district and region to region. Graduate students at the University of Florida who are members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) report that their departments are sending around emails with details on such hopeful rumors, and the Graduate Assistant Union has tried to organize carpool rides for teaching assistants to drive 80 miles to Jacksonville in the hope that they can be vaccinated. Jessie Cortez, 43, died Aug. 31, according to the Florida Education Association (FEA). Woolfs work suggests that over the decades, state policy decisions on health issues such as Medicaid, gun legislation, tobacco taxes, and, indeed, vaccines have likely had a stronger impact on state health trajectories than other factors. and that mortality rates per 100,000 are lowest among the unvaccinated. While the 17 child deaths may seem low compared to the older adults, the increase of six deaths in August is an inevitable result of more kids becoming infected, according to officials at the Wolfson Childrens Hospital in Jacksonville. Vaccines could have saved lives. We know that unvaccinated Americans are more likely to be Republican, that Republicans in positions of power led the movement against COVID vaccination, and that hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated Americans have died preventable deaths from the disease. More than 15 Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia teachers and staff members have died of COVID-19 since July, Action News Jax has learned. Bobby Rivers, assistant principal at Arlington Middle School, died on Aug. 10. Shirley Duggan (Brantley County School District). The syndrome can also affect individuals with mild cases. The fact that her husband, also an educator, is still recovering from Covid-19 doesnt help. According to the Florida Education Association (FEA), 40 active educators have died from COVID-19 in the state since DeSantis ordered that schools reopen on July 6, 2020. Six members of a church in Florida, all of whom were unvaccinated, died of Covid-19 in less than two . At least 15 teachers, staff from the Jacksonville area have died of COVID-19 since July. A likely explanation, the authors write, could be that in the post-vaccine era, those leaders chose policies and conveyed public-health messages that made their constituents more likely to die. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, COVID-19 is the leading cause of death for law enforcement in 2021. But she wishes school officials cared about their teachers. Coach Shell impacted many students both on and off the field and had an energy that was unmatched. Fact Check: Did Florida Gov. "But a mask mandate? Its a pretty tragic thing to be happening in our country right now.. Polk County School Board member Lynn Wilson called it "a terrible tragedy" in an interview with WESH2 News. The district has said board members were in compliance with a policy that allowed people to have their masks off as long as they were physically distanced. But to understand why Republicans have died at higher rates, you cant look at vaccine status alone. On top of all that, theyre seeing colleagues getting sick and even dying of Covid-19 and worry they or their loved ones could be next. Among the 13 were. But eligibility does not equal availability, and it could be a while before many of those educators get a shot. Ron DeSantis ahead of his 2022 reelection bid. At least 25 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have made some or all teachers eligible for a coronavirus vaccine as of February 1, Education Week reports. Florida accounted for one in five infections nationwide over the summer, which stretched an already strapped nursing workforce and jammed hospitals to the point where some facilities used office boardrooms as overflow wards. Terrazas knows there are no easy answers, and that parents and students are struggling too. The Republican Party is unquestionably complicit in the premature deaths of many of its own supporters, a phenomenon that may be without precedent in the history of both American democracy and virology. #TrojanPride pic.twitter.com/0GKMv7yuva. Cases of the coronavirus have spiked in Florida in recent weeks, spurred on by the highly contagious delta variant. Fusco said she is currently "torn" over talks of mandating vaccinations, although she said she may change her mind once the Food & Drug Administration fully authorizes the vaccines. The University of California, Davis's teacher education program staved off a planned suspension due only to widespread outcry. Unfortunately, some of these children will not survive, Rathore said. The figure represents an anecdotal tally of the number of COVID-related deaths, United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats told CNN, as the district, the fourth-largest in . International Committee of the Fourth International, COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, Sign up for the WSWS Educators Newsletter, scheme to distribute vaccines to wealthy, affluent communities, One year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A disaster caused by capitalism, School worker deaths mount in Florida as virus spreads without restraint, Florida Governor DeSantis prioritizes vaccine rollout for wealthier communities. Fusco said 48-year-old Pinewood Elementary teacher and union steward Janice Wright, 49-year-old Dillard Elementary teacher Katina Jones and 49-year-old teaching assistant Yolonda Hudson-Williams, also of Dillard Elementary, were the educators who lost their lives to COVID-19 this past week. The county has now recorded at least 42,482 confirmed cases and 689 deaths. The American Federation of Teachers said 210 of its members have died of the virus. Though some teachers fear being back in classrooms while the virus is still raging in their communities, other leaders argue that the educational toll on students and the stress on families are more urgent concerns. One school district in Florida has reported 17 employee deaths from COVID-19 since August as schools continue to battle the state and Gov. And the close association between Republican vaccine hesitancy and higher death rates has been documented. DeSantis administration did not answer questions about the increase in deaths. The two were mother and. Follow-up research published in The Lancet Regional HealthAmericas in October looked at deaths from April 2021 to March 2022 and found a 26 percent higher death rate in areas where voters leaned Republican. Biden rolls out his plan to reopen schools. Our entire school community is deeply saddened by this unexpected loss, and we send our condolences to his family.. Less than a week before schools are set to reopen in Florida's Broward County, local union officials say three educators have died of complications from the coronavirus. None of them were vaccinated, Fusco said. At least 378 active teachers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, . A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Three county educators have died of complications from the coronavirus. Nicole Hollis was a third-grade teacher at River City Science Academy Mandarin when she died from COVID-19 Aug. 14, according to her family. Amanda Winkle is the digital content manager for Action News Jax. Published Watch on. Vasquez said she recognizes the difficult choices that school officials have to make. Across the U.S., the American Federation of Teachers lists 210 union members who have died. These include teachers, maintenance workers, bus drivers, office assistants, custodians, and sports coaches. Why are we so insignificant?. The partisan divide in COVID deaths, Hanage said, is just another example of how the partisan politics of the U.S. has poisoned the well of public health.. Chicagos planned return to in-person classes was pushed back a day after the school district and teachers union failed to reach an agreement. We know that as of April 2022, about 318,000 people had died from COVID because they were unvaccinated, according to research from Brown University. At least six . She falsely claimed that there were "thousands of dead voters in Georgia," though Georgia elections officials have found only four such cases in the 2020 election to date and Trump allies . FEMA insists that they have no control over the guidelines, and that the distribution terms are dictated by DeSantis, who has been implicated in a scheme to distribute vaccines to wealthy, affluent communities. Both Mark McCall, 60, and his son Britt, 35, worked as foremen on Duval County Public Schools maintenance team. Shortly before he died, Hubbard shared that he had recently tested positive for the virus on social media. The anti-science messaging that fuels such a divide is popular with Republican leaders because it plays so well with their constituents. Ron DeSantis barring schools from requiring that students wear face coverings and leaving that decision to their parents.

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