November 23, 2020
Republic School District Families and Employees,
The district has been made aware of the following COVID19 cases:
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One RMS student: The student was never on campus when considered contagious.
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One Schofield student: The student was last on campus when considered contagious November 19.
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Five Lyon students: Three of the students were never on campus when considered contagious. The other two were last on campus when considered contagious November 16 and 18.
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Two Transportation Department employees: The first employee was last on campus when considered contagious November 12 and the second November 18.
At the direction of the Springfield-Greene County Health Department all students and employees who were exposed to the individuals who tested positive for COVID19 will be directed to self-isolate and quarantine. Those directly exposed will receive individual phone calls. Due to the increased number of positive cases and the number of administrators available across the district to make individual phone calls to those exposed, these calls are still in progress. Springfield-Greene County Health Department will be stepping in to assist the district with these calls through the utilization of a third party company called Maximus. Therefore, if your student is a close contact to one of the positive cases, you will be contacted by either a school administrator or a Maximus employee on behalf of the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. Maximus will be calling from a 314 area code phone number.
As a reminder, exposure notifications will be distributed each evening (and at the completion of the weekend) that there is a positive case in our district. TAKE NOTE: Positives will not be reported daily during Thanksgiving Break. A full report from November 24-30 will be shared on November 30. Also, we want to take this opportunity to remind our patrons about the rules we are required to follow per the CDC and Springfield-Greene County Health Department in regards to isolation and quarantine situations using the graphic below. In addition, details and example scenarios can be found on the CDC website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html.
