Writer's Block: Swine Times
Nope, not worried at all. I'm sneezing a lot but I'm sure it was only because I've been out in the cold a lot. I'd hate to be quarantined. My cousin is a teacher at one of the schools that was closed where I live. I haven't talked to her, but I wonder if she taught the kid that is suspected to be infected?
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Unfortunately the school might not be able to tell staff or especially parents who the infected child/children were due to HIPAA laws, so your cousin might never know if it was a child in her class. I work at a preschool, and the same rule applies--we can inform parents that a child in the center has been diagnosed with a certain disease, be it swine flu, pink eye, etc., but we can't say who or even which classroom, and staff is only notified on a need-to-know basis.
I work in the Chicago 'burbs, and we've been lucky so far--no cases reported in this area. Fingers crossed that it stays that way.
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