It's unclear whether any of the teachers contracted COVID-19 at their schools, but their deaths have renewed fears about possible school outbreaks.
- Nacoma James, a 42-year-old teacher and assistant football coach at Lafayette Middle School in Oxford, Mississippi, died in quarantine on August 6 following his first week back on campus after a summer coaching football.
- An unnamed teacher at the Ruby Van Meter School in Des Moines, Iowa also died after contracting COVID-19 following an out-of-state trip. The teacher hadn't been around students since falling ill, according to The Associated Press, as they died a week before classes started. Almost all of the teachers' aforementioned states fall among the top half of U.S. states with the highest overall number of coronavirus cases. As of September 10, South Carolina ranks 16th among the 50 U.S. states,In late July, the National Education Association , the largest teachers' union in the U.S.
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