Parents defied a county health department’s orders and sent their COVID-infected child to school last month, triggering an outbreak among the students, officials reported.
Seven other students at Neil Cummins Elementary School in Marin County, California, subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 and 75 students had to quarantine, which meant they could not travel or visit relatives over Thanksgiving week, the Marin Independent Journal was the first to report.
One of the seven students with COVID-19 was the sibling of the first to test positive.
Their parents were told in early November that one of their two children tested positive for COVID-19 and they were told to keep both children at home and to notify the school in the town of Corte Madera. They did neither, officials said.
