'Nobody in the school community cares about whether she is safe,' one mother, whose 8-year-old tested positive, said, still shaking. 'How can you call yourself a community when you don't care, whether or not, the people in the community live or die?'
Humble, TX Michelle Woodard's voice broke and her body shook with emotion as she described the moment she learned her 8-year-old daughter Cara tested positive for Covid-19 last week.
"I just felt this rage," Woodard said. What she feared most had come true: Her daughter, who attended school in a mask and face shield, had contracted the coronavirus. And Woodard believes this is the second time she's had it.And this time, Woodard says, it was preventable because medical experts had advised the use of universal indoor mask wearing in schools to stop the transmission of the highly contagious and potentially deadly virus.
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