NYC’s ‘Situation Room’ is Supposed to Respond Quickly to School COVID-19 Cases. It’s Not Working, Council Members Say.
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Teachers at P.S. 63 anticipated their Bronx school would shut down this week when they learned from a company conducting on-site COVID-19 tests that three students were positive for the virus.
Two cases are supposed to trigger a building shutdown for at least 24-hours to investigate any possible links. But the building stayed open, and while some classrooms were closed, families didn’t hear about it until well into the night, a staff member at P.S. 63 told Chalkbeat.