据美联社当地时间4日报道，上个月，美国北加利福尼亚州的一对父母在明知孩子已经被感染新冠病毒后，依旧违反隔离和检疫规定，将他与家中的另一个孩子一起送去学校上学，结果导致疫情在孩子所在的小学暴发。

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Northern California parents knowingly sent their COVID-19 positive child and a sibling to school last month in violation of isolation and quarantine rules, causing a coronavirus outbreak in an elementary school, officials said on Dec 4.

根据当地要求，阳性感染者至少要自我隔离10天，但涉事家长恐因违反卫生令为面临罚款或轻罪指控。

The parents could face a fine or a misdemeanor charge for violating Marin County’s health order, under which people who test positive for the virus must isolate themselves for at least 10 days.

当地公共卫生官员马特·威利斯表示，这种做法不仅违反法规，也违反了基本的社会责任伦理。”

“It’s a violation of the law that we’ve put in place,” Dr. Matt Willis, the county’s public health officer, said. “More importantly it’s also a violation of just basic ethics of community responsibility.”

当地学区负责人布雷特·戈特曼介绍，这名儿童在11月8日就已经被检测出新冠阳性，但两个孩子在接下来的两周里仍在学校继续上课。而孩子的家长不仅没有将相关情况通知校方，也没有回复公共卫生系统追踪人员的多个回访电话。事后，家长甚至声称他们不清楚在孩子的检测结果呈阳性时，应该如何进行隔离流程。
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The child tested positive for the virus during the week of Nov. 8, according to Brett Geithman, superintendent of the Larkspur-Corte Madera School District. Both children continued to attend school the rest of that week and into the following week.

The parents did not notify the school of the positive test or return multiple calls from public health contract tracers, Geithman told AP.

Willis said when the school's principal spoke to the family, “they had cited that they were not clear on the protocol” to isolate the child after the positive test.

一直到11月18日，公共卫生官员在注意到相关记录有出入后联系了学区，“我们注意到你们没有将学生X的信息输入到COVID-19学生的数据库”，当地官员这才得知相关情况，随即立刻联系了感染病毒的学生家属，并要求他们在隔天早上到学校报到，并进行快速检测。

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On Nov. 18, public health officials contacted the school district after they noticed a discrepancy in records, according to Geithman.

“We noticed you didn’t enter student X into the database” of students with COVID-19, Geithman said district officials were told.

The district immediately contacted the families of students who were exposed and told them to report to the school for rapid testing the next morning.

最终共有8名学生的检测结果呈阳性：除了最早被感染的学生，被这对家长一起送去上课的另一个孩子也被感染，另外还有3名疑似是校内传播的学生和3名疑似是家庭传播的学生，这8人都没有出现严重病症或需住院治疗。

全校与这8名确诊学生有过密切接触的学生多达75人，暂没有工作人员的核酸检测呈阳性。

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A total of eight students tested positive: The original student, their sibling, three classmates of theirs who are suspected school-based transmissions and three students who are suspected household transmissions. None of the students experienced serious illness or had to be hospitalized.

About 75 students were exposed to the virus from the eight cases, the superintendent said. No staff members tested positive.

据威利斯介绍，当地学校要求在室内必须戴上口罩。他说，“如果这些孩子不戴口罩，我们很可能会看到更多传播，更多确诊病例。这很明显是一个不幸的教训，说明当我们不遵守规定时会发生什么。”

Schools have an indoor mask mandate.

“Had those children been unmasked, we would have seen a lot more transmission,” Willis said. “We depend on one another to prevent spread and this is kind of a stark and unfortunate lesson in what happens when we don’t follow the protocols.”

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