McDONOUGH — Despite an increase in community spread of COVID-19 in Henry County, the county is now better prepared to adjust to the impacts of the virus, according to four officials who updated the Henry Board of Commissioners Tuesday.
Don Ash, director of the Henry County Emergency Management Agency, told commissioners that as positive cases have increased, the county has opened three new testing sites to address greater demand.
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I think someone really needs to check into the way that HCS are reporting numbers. There's no way that the information in this story can be correct that was provided by the superintendent for fact I know my child's school gets an email every day about a positive case in several other co-workers children's School is the same scenario. We've already shut down five schools and there are other schools that should be shut down as well the schools that you are shutting down have siblings that feed into other schools in cases are on the rise and those schools as well. Henry County schools has shown that they do not care about their staff and all the protocols that they say are in place are not in place in all schools. the schools are not getting deep clean half the time our schools aren't even getting cleaned. There is no disinfecting going on even when positive cases are in the school. Henry County schools needs to report the right data and be honest of what's really going on in the school system. If a spike was this high after a one week Thanksgiving break what do you think is going to happen after giving kids 3 weeks off and staff 2 weeks off. The numbers are going to go crazy when we return to school. We should be on remote learning until these numbers can get under control. Henry County schools is covering up cases and numbers and not reporting the right information.
Yes, there is much "massaging" of the data at the county level that is occurring. In addition, the school board rubber stamping our Super's recent payraise during all of this is even worse. When teachers and other school employees are risking their health on a daily basis for no additional pay, that is not a good look HCS! Things are so "amazing" at the school level that lower level county office empoyees are being deployed into the schools in order to keep them open and project the illusion that things are under control.
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