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Arizona Teacher Dies of COVID-19 After Sharing Classroom with Colleagues Who Also Tested Positive
People Magazine ^ | Claudia Harmata

Posted on 07/13/2020 8:47:02 AM PDT by Morpheus2009

Three Arizona teachers who shared a classroom for a summer school course all contracted coronavirus last month. One of them has died, according to several reports.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd died on June 26, just under two weeks after she was hospitalized due to coronavirus complications. The other two teachers — Jena Martinez-Inzunza and Angela Skillings — are still battling the virus, according to CNN.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Arizona
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To: familyop

That’s great, but, unfortunately, your family is the exception rather than the norm. I’m saying that the average kid in the average family is better off in school where, yes, there’s liberal propaganda, but at least some learning, than sitting at home trolling Instagram and TikTok.


61 posted on 07/13/2020 9:40:48 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Morpheus2009

“I just had this horrible gut-wrenching feeling just knowing how much of a struggle this was going to be because I knew her lungs were compromised even before this ... fear, just the worst fear that you could feel,” Jesse (her husband) told CNN.
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So what was wrong with her lungs before she got the China Virus? Also, her whole family tested positive. How do we know she got it in school as opposed to her being infected at the grocery store?


62 posted on 07/13/2020 9:41:42 AM PDT by bort
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To: StolarStorm

It has a 99.7% recovery rate. Yes, people may feel awful when sick, but you can feel awful when sick with any type of virus. Why is this one causing panic (among some, not all)? Ask yourself what else is going on in 2020?


63 posted on 07/13/2020 9:43:26 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Morpheus2009

Worth knowing: SHE WAS NOT TEACHING LIVE KIDS!

“Before she tested positive, Byrd and two other teachers taught a summer school class virtually from the same classroom. All three teachers came down with the virus.”

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2020/07/09/after-arizona-teacher-kim-byrd-dies-covid-questions-raised-over-school-reopening/5405651002/

“Three Arizona summer-school teachers who followed the recommended safety protocols for the coronavirus while in the same classroom contracted the contagion — and one of them died, reports say....

In June, Kimberley and two other teachers — Angela Skillings and Jena Martinez-Inzunza — got together in one classroom to conduct classes for a group of kindergartners and first- and second-graders, who watched the educators online as they performed fun nature-inspired experiments such as using Cheetos to demonstrate bee pollination.

The women said they work masks and gloves, socially distanced and used hand sanitizer to keep themselves safe, CNN reported.”

https://1010wcsi.com/fox-news/teachers-who-taught-summer-school-in-same-classroom-catch-coronavirus-one-dies-report/

So...what does this mean other than 3 people working together in the same room who SAY they did distancing and WORE MASKS and used hand sanitizer can still catch it?


64 posted on 07/13/2020 9:43:53 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: bort

Asthma, lupus and other conditions.


65 posted on 07/13/2020 9:44:19 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: bort

A number of teachers from my former liberal arts high school were marching in protests, many of those protesters took off their masks from their nose and mouth just to have their voices heard. I don’t buy that there was zero spread from protests.


66 posted on 07/13/2020 9:44:24 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: P-Marlowe

can’t be. Masks prevent the spread of this disease. It must have been something else. /s


67 posted on 07/13/2020 9:44:26 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Lizavetta
And yet under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) it would be illegal for an employer to refuse to hire someone like this.

Welcome to the Tower of Babel v2.0 ... where the laws and regulations that govern our society are growing increasingly incoherent.

68 posted on 07/13/2020 9:45:21 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Mr Rogers

What you do outside of the classroom MATTERS, especially if it defeats all the protective measures you try to employ inside the classroom. Being as how she had Lupus, Diabetes, and Asthma, she was very high risk.


69 posted on 07/13/2020 9:46:16 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: Morpheus2009

I don’t believe a WORD of this. As other posters in the thread have said, she dies of something else, but their weak PCR test said she was positive for some coronavirus. It wasn’t necessarily SARS-CoV-2, because that virus has NEVER EVEN BEEN ISOLATED.


70 posted on 07/13/2020 9:46:37 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: bort

She was asthmatic, diabetic, and obese. Obesity constricts a person’s ability to breathe.


71 posted on 07/13/2020 9:47:27 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: Morpheus2009

“Byrd had asthma and several other health issues.”—per the Arizona Republic.
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I feel for her family. But, quite frankly, it is pretty damn stupid for someone with all of her breathing issues to go out in public or to teach school. At age 61, she could have retired, taken a sabbatical, etc.


72 posted on 07/13/2020 9:47:30 AM PDT by bort
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To: conservative98

They can’t prove it. SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19 virus) has NEVER been isolated. All they have is a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test that ‘amplifies’ genetic fragments.


73 posted on 07/13/2020 9:48:11 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: DouglasKC

She had asthma, diabetes, lupus, chronic sinus infections and was put on a ventilator.
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Her nickname was “Lucky.”


74 posted on 07/13/2020 9:48:34 AM PDT by bort
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To: silverleaf

The death rate for covid on the vent is 35% same as ARDS from any other cause. The death rate of ARDS without the vent 100%. it is not the. ent that kills people. Vents save lives every day


75 posted on 07/13/2020 9:48:35 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Months ago Dr.s were discovering that patients were doing much better with NO VENT but being turned on their stomachs taking pressure off the lungs!!


76 posted on 07/13/2020 9:50:33 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Morpheus2009

“She got put on the ventilator.”

Positive pressure into a negative pressure system (the lungs). Ventilators are a last resort as they can damage the lungs themselves.


77 posted on 07/13/2020 9:51:33 AM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: Morpheus2009

True. She could have caught it outside the “classroom” - a classroom with no students - and then spread it to the other two teachers. Assuming they WERE wearing masks - and since they were on video I assume they were - then it suggests MASKS DON’T HELP.

Importantly, it has NOTHING to do with what happens if kids are in a classroom with a teacher!


78 posted on 07/13/2020 9:53:38 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: cuban leaf
The ones you need to worry about are the ones that are less discriminary. The fact is that an illness that attacks the young is more serious to our world than one that attacks the elderly. It’s just how it works.

The flu KILLED MORE CHILDREN under the age of 14 by a factor of 4 this past year, and yet go online and try to find a comparison between the flu and the chi-com virus among young people.

Bring a sammich and a beer.

I know it is a tough comparison {because I am almost 80} but if a 12 year old kid dies, he loses 72 years of life, if I die, I lose about 3 years of life.

I don't want to die today but I've lived a great life, and if given a choice between me and any of my off spring, the choice is easy, and I believe that almost any older person would make the same choice.

79 posted on 07/13/2020 9:55:29 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: USS Alaska

Yep. I’m 66 and feel exactly the same way.


80 posted on 07/13/2020 9:56:41 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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