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Denver Area High School Closes After Deaths of Three Teachers – Causes of Death are Still Pending
gateway pundit ^ | 4/14/2023 | jim hoft

Posted on 04/14/2023 3:52:31 PM PDT by bitt

This week, a high school in the Denver area was forced to close after the death of three teachers, USA Today reported.

After the deaths of 24-year-old Madelaine Michelle Schmidt and 63-year-old Judith Briere Geoffroy, authorities at Eaglecrest High School in Aurora canceled all after-school events and classes for Wednesday.

“It is with great sadness that we share with you that Judith Geoffroy, ILC para, and Maddie Schmidt, ILC teacher, both passed away in the last 24 hours,” the district released in a statement. “These tragic deaths appear to be of natural causes and are unrelated. We have shared these losses with our staff and will have the district mental health team available to assist them in coping with their grief.”

According to Arapahoe County Corner’s Office, Schmidt experienced symptoms of bacterial meningitis before her death.

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Teacher Madelaine Schmidt, 24, was also Girls’ Soccer Coach…

Teacher Judith Geoffroy also died…

A 3rd Teacher in the district, PE Teacher and Baseball Coach Scott Nash, died over the weekend…

– USA Today pic.twitter.com/t1CjRFZsdC

— Dr. James E. Olsson (@DrJamesOlsson) April 13, 2023 Arapahoe County Corner’s Office also suggested that Judith Briere Geoffroy experienced symptoms of bacterial meningitis.

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To: bitt

Sounds like there is a Vampire off the reservation. Probably a sick one. They have been known to carry diseases. Look for this story to get buried.


41 posted on 04/15/2023 2:16:35 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: gas_dr

How long would it take to know (from the spinal tap) if it was meningitis?


42 posted on 04/15/2023 4:51:02 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Mom MD

How long does it take for the results of a spinal tap to be reported? I would expect this would have been one of the first tests done.

Minutes? Days? Weeks?

Everyone associated with the school must be very worried.


43 posted on 04/15/2023 4:53:53 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: wintertime

It is variable. Cell counts specifically the number of white and red cells are usually available within 30 minutes. this can suggest the presence of meningitis but doesn’t give much info about the causative agent ( viral vs bacterial) though it can give you a basis for a guess. Definitive testing includes PCR tests for common viral and bacterial causes and can take hours to days. The gold standard is a culture that usually takes 48 hours. All patients are admitted and treated with IV antibiotics until culture results are available (unless there is positive pcr before that). If the culture is negative at 48 hours usually it is presumed to e viral (not contagious and no further treatment needed). If bacterial meningitis is confirmed by pcr or culture 7-10 days of antibiotics are needed, usually I.V. occasionally bacterial meningitis will be assumed even if testing negative if the patient has an infectious contact and the right symptoms. If bacterial meningitis is confirmed or strongly suspected close contacts will often be started on oral antibiotics prophylactically. Probably more than you wanted to know…


44 posted on 04/15/2023 5:44:53 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: bubalooie; gas_dr
So there are vaccines for bacteria???

Scroll down to the section Vaccines.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/meningitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350508

45 posted on 04/15/2023 5:45:46 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If all three turn out to be infected with bacterial meningitis then their relationship with other becomes a subject of serious conjecture.


46 posted on 04/15/2023 6:10:36 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe)
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To: gas_dr
It’s why there are vaccines against this nasty bacteria that also saves lives.

This nasty bacteria saves lives? How about "It’s why there are vaccines against this nasty bacteria that also save lives."

47 posted on 04/15/2023 6:16:22 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe l)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I think not related means they were not caused by close contact, not a condition transmitted from on to another.


48 posted on 04/15/2023 6:19:24 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe li)
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To: Robert DeLong

My whole family abjured the vax altogether. I would have quit my job were it required to keep working.


49 posted on 04/15/2023 6:20:43 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: Mom MD

Thank you, for this very useful information.

Obviously, all those associated with the school will be anxious to see the results of the testing. The entire community must be very worried.


50 posted on 04/15/2023 6:23:10 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Getready

I know people who would put off going to the doctor for these symptoms saying they are just a “stomach bug.” they would not consider the headaches as anything but headaches. That is why a portion of these victims die. They wait until too late.


51 posted on 04/15/2023 6:24:01 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: bubalooie

That is what penicillin was invented for in the first place.


52 posted on 04/15/2023 6:25:00 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: arthurus
My wife took them, over my objections. But she takes the flu vax every year. I honestly believe she's a ticking time-bomb, and is already exhibiting signs. Not sure if it's the vax or something else. But she never listens to me as she thinks I'm somewhat of a conspiracy nut. 😋

Her children all listened to me. I never got Covid, and I attribute that to my taking B3 daily. Her oldest son got Covid, along with his wife and now have natural immunity.

You can try to impart your beliefs, but you can't force them on anyone.

53 posted on 04/15/2023 6:37:41 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Mom MD
Probably more than you wanted to know…

Nope, not too much at all. Thanks for the info.

54 posted on 04/15/2023 8:02:01 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: arthurus

not necessarily. it can be spread by close contact shared utensils and in some cases droplets. It does not require physical let alone sexual contact. The usual scenario is of spreads through a dorm or military barracks which is why most students starting college and most new military recruits are vaccinated just before they move in


55 posted on 04/15/2023 9:12:27 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: arthurus

I’ll admit I left my modifier dangling and further the proper work might by which instead of that. Grammar question however, it is not the subject that determine the conjugation of the verb? Since the vaccine is the subject (singular) would it not require a conjugation of the verb in the 3rd person singular. In this case saves? Were the subject pleural (vaccines for example) then it would be third person pleural conjugation (save)? If I diagram the sentence, the simple sentence is vaccine saves lives. I believe you have conjugated in your example based on the object, not the subject and it is the subject that determines the predicate.

There are not multiple vaccines against species. There is one vaccine to address the species not a distinction without difference

But you’re right — on review the sentence structure is not elegant.


56 posted on 04/15/2023 9:19:06 AM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will )
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To: wintertime

If there is bacterial meningitis — the normally clear or champagne color cerebral spinal fluid is cloudy and turbid (pus is present) it can be an eye ball diagnosis.

From the lab — a gram stain takes about 15 minutes. This disease can go from presentation to deadly within six hours. It also has a pretty classic rash.


57 posted on 04/15/2023 9:41:36 AM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will )
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To: gas_dr

Pleural. Is this a lining-of-the-lung comment?


58 posted on 04/15/2023 9:57:38 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe v)
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To: arthurus

Crap. Yes my freaking autocorrect baseline is medical. Sorry.


59 posted on 04/15/2023 10:01:12 AM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will )
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To: gas_dr

Both nouns are, in fact, plural but Bacteria does not have an “S” on the end so the sense of a scan is that it is singular and thus “saves” follows from it. Saves, at any rate, doesn’t agree with either noun.


60 posted on 04/15/2023 10:01:13 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe v)
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