After an in-person meeting in the South Bay, more than 40 school principals were told to quarantine, as they'd all been exposed to an asymptomatic attendee with COVID-19.
The meeting was called by the Santa Clara County Unified School District
The exposure was confirmed during an online meeting with the school board, who say they didn't do anything wrong. But, many in the district are demanding to know why an in-person meeting was required.
“I'm mad, I’m disappointed, I’m concerned," parent Bonnie Lieberman said to a local Bay Area NBC reporter. "There were over forty people in the room,” said Lieberman. “It doesn’t give me or any other parents much confidence that the district can make appropriate decisions about safety.”
Stella Kemp, SCCUSD superintendent explained that “Given the complexities of our reopening, some of our staff meetings are taking place in person." Adding that “Of course those meetings are being conducted under the strict guidelines provided to us by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department.”
Kemp has said that everyone who was exposed was tested and then quarantined, and to her knowledge no one who was at the meeting tested positive.
A recent outbreak of coronavirus in Pasadena has been traced back to a large family gathering.
According to the Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD), the gathering was a birthday party attended by extended family and friends. The event took place after stay-at-home orders were in place and led to five positive cases of COVID-19.
"PPHD recently identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases among attendees of a birthday party," officials said in a statement. "Through contact tracing, the PPHD disease investigation team discovered more than five laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and many more ill individuals."