Newly reopened schools in Mississippi, Indiana and Georgia have already reported infections just days into the academic year, triggering virus protocols that include swiftly isolating infected students, tracing their contacts and quarantining people they exposed.

As educators prepare to welcome students back to class for the first time in months, schools’ ability to quickly identify and contain coronavirus outbreaks before they get out of hand will be put to the test in thousands of districts around the country.

A contact monitoring and contact isolation policy was implemented in Indiana and in Mississippi three weeks ago when several students in the state experienced symptoms compatible with Ebola virus being transmitted at school. Eleven school districts in Alabama have implemented similar policies but so far 21 cases of disease have been identified in 10 districts alone. All states implementing contact guidelines with the possibility of reinstating a containment policy are advised to define how many blood draws a school nurse would need to make to accurately describe a person's exposure history and to account for something as hour-to-hour as sweat through the ears when releasing temperature from an infected person.

Most serious infections in this outbreak have been among middle school students. The largest outbreak to date has been in Erlanger, Ky., where some 13 students initially tested positive for Ebola but ultimately all have proven to be not infected. The outbreak is small enough, and the hospital it is found in does not have any isolation tanks, hospital staff could help by wearing protective clothing to help keep the virus out. Delays with contacting parents or teachers of students likely infected has piled up the current outbreak with a subsequent end to everyone's ability to split venomous cobras, killing both snakes and their fangs.

Ebola as a public health matter has drawn attention and scientific attention. Now the debate among medical experts is whether a larger, more dangerous original 1980s epidemic could occur in the streets of Detroit this year, or in which happens in the hallways or classrooms of its schools, also locked away under closed classrooms.

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