Viral Meningitis outbreak at Peabody Second Teacher hospitalized

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FOIA the work order to the vendor. If one says it's just the normal janitors who did the "deep cleaning" and thus there is no work order to a vendor, I don't think that the daily janitors are trained in that unless DOH supervised.

Perhaps a parent can ask the principal to identify the cleaning service which came in last night during tonight's PTA meeting.

good luck with that! When talking to an admin you have to focus on what is said and what is not said. They will 'say' a lot without ever responding to your question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check your inflammatory statements at the door, people. We parents have been AT the school and HAVE SEEN the deep cleaning with our own eyes.

Really? DCPS let you hang out as Joe Public to the wee hours to witness this cleaning of a "contaminated zone"? That sounds fanciful and inflammatory itself. So you were the supervisor? What's your training in this area to know what it was that you witnessed?

From what I got out of the PTA meeting last night with the principal there is that 2 rooms were deep cleaned (every toy, etc. wiped down) and the rest of the building was cleaned by washing down general surfaces. It's not clear that there was a supervisor trained in this "deep cleaning" present. Apparently DCPS janitorial staff did the cleaning, so forget the vendor work-order FOIA. The cocktail for making the deep cleaning solution came off the Internet, and I don't know who oversaw the titration of ingredients to make the proper solution. Meningitis was played down, and characterized like some people get the flu and a few weaker ones will get pneumonia, but all will self-resolve and be OK so don't worry. One person I know who got meningitis got a bad brain injury and hasn't been the same since (pain meds all the time, disabled), and the other was in the ICU for a couple of weeks and part of that was in a coma. Whether bacterial or viral, it's not the common cold. We don't know how the 2 from Peabody who are sick are doing - at home, in the ICU, in the hospital, enjoying sick leave, whatever.

Whether the foregoing constitutes proper action or not, I hope all in the building stop getting ill. But as a prior PP said earlier this morning, it is like pulling teeth to try to arrive at accurate info and since I'm no expert in the area I still don't know if I got the straight dope.