20 Reported COVID-19 Cases In Mountain Brook Schools

Mountain Brook AL

04 October, 2021

3:18 PM

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MOUNTAIN BROOK, AL — Mountain Brook Schools reported Friday that 20 students in the system were home with positive COVID-19 diagnoses, with an additional 30 students home for "close contact" during the week ending Oct. 1. Of the 30 students home for close contact, eight were able to return to school. "Our reported COVID positive case numbers this week are right at our reporting threshold of 20," MBS said in a statement Friday. "While universal masking is still required inside our campus buildings, we are closely monitoring voluntarily reported COVID cases, close contacts, school absence rates, county and state data, and communicating regularly with Public Health Officials. We are hopeful that our COVID numbers and absence rates will continue to decline." As flu season gets into full swing, school nurses have received several inquiries from parents regarding the differences between the flu and COVID-19. MBS urges parents to read this article from kidshealth.org to help determine what their child's symptoms mean.