What happens when COVID-19 is in our midst

Once word came that MLSD employee tested positive the ‘fun’ began

PAUL DELANEY, Staff reporter | Last updated Mar 26, 2020 5:50pm0

MEDICAL LAKE – Superintendent of Schools Tim Ames wryly remembered the phone call he got on Saturday, March 14 as being when the “fun” began.

But Ames was not first in line to learn that an unnamed school district employee had been suspected of carrying the COVID-19 virus. That “honor” was bestowed on Career and Technical Education coordinator Ann Everett who oversees robotics, where the infected teacher serves as an advisor.

“She said I think you really need to talk to our superintendent,” Everett told the caller. And that’s how it all started, first word that the coronavirus was in the house...