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Teacher Deaths Raise Alarms at Start of New School Year
Teachers in at least three American states have died since the start of the new school year after getting the coronavirus.
AshLee DeMarinis was just 34 years old when she died this month after three weeks in a Missouri hospital. A third-grade teacher died Monday in South Carolina, and two other educators died recently in Mississippi.
It is unclear how many teachers in the U.S. have become ill with COVID-19 since the new school year began. But the state of Mississippi alone has reported 604 cases among school teachers and workers.
Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers. She said schools need guidelines such as required face coverings and strict social distancing rules to reopen safely.
"If community spread is too high, as it is in Missouri and Mississippi, if you don't have the infrastructure of testing, and if you don't have the safeguards that prevent the spread of viruses in the school, we believe that you cannot reopen in person," Weingarten said.
Johnny Dunlap is a 39-year-old teacher at Dodge City High School in Kansas. He said he considered resigning before the district made face coverings required for teachers and students. Still, his history of cancer and high blood pressure make him worried about being around so many people. Existing health conditions can put people at higher risk for severe illness and death from the virus.
"I'm at a high school with close to 2,000 students so it kind of runs against the advice we have been given for half a year now," Dunlap said.
The early part of the health crisis claimed the lives of many teachers. The New York City Department of Education alone lost 31 teachers.
Across the country, the American Federation of Teachers lists 210 union members who have died. The list includes support workers and retirees as well as teachers.
The start of the new school year brought with it new deaths.
In Oxford, Mississippi, 42-year-old Nacoma James was a middle school teacher who also helped coach high school football. He died on August 6 during the first week of classes.
He was already self-quarantining when teachers and students returned to the classroom, said Lafayette County School District Superintendent Adam Pugh. James worked with football players during summer workouts, but an investigation found no new cases linked to him, Pugh said.
Another Mississippi teacher, Tom Slade, died on September 6. The history teacher recently wrote on Facebook about his battle with a severe lung infection caused by the coronavirus.
Slade was teaching in-person when the school year started on August 6, Principal Raina Holmes said. He began quarantining after he had contact with someone outside of school who was confirmed to have the virus. His last day of teaching was August 21.
In South Carolina, 28-year-old Demetria "Demi" Bannister died three days after being confirmed to have COVID-19, her school district said in a news release. The district said Bannister was at Windsor Elementary School on August 28 for a teacher work day, before classes began.
Back in Missouri, in-person classes started August 24 at John Evans Middle School in Potosi, about 115 kilometers southwest of St. Louis. AshLee DeMarinis was already hospitalized by then. But she had been in the school preparing for the year a couple of weeks earlier, said her sister, Jennifer Heissenbuttel.
A school official said contact tracing found DeMarinis had not had close contact with any teachers, students or workers.
DeMarinis had asthma, which can put someone more at risk of severe illness from COVID-19. After developing a high body temperature and shortness of breath, she was tested for the coronavirus and soon hospitalized.
It is unclear where and how DeMarinis got the virus.
Heissenbuttel is a nurse who works in a New York area hospital's intensive care unit. She has avoided the illness that her sister could not.
"I thought it would be me, not her," Heissenbuttel said.
I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm John Russell.
重点解析
重点讲解：
1. such as 比如；像这种的；
She was involved in many New Age activities such as yoga and healing.
她参加了很多“新时代”活动，如瑜伽和康复法。
2. close to 接近于；靠近；
In the east, our country adjoins Korea and is close to Japan.
我国东部跟朝鲜接壤，跟日本邻近。
3. return to 回到；返回；
I solemnly vowed that someday I would return to live in Europe.
我郑重发誓，总有一天我将回到欧洲生活。
4. prepare for 准备；为……作准备；
Make sure you have ample time to prepare for the new day ahead
要保证你有足够的时间为即将开始的新的一天做好准备。
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新学年伊始，教师死亡事件引起警觉
自新学年开始以来，美国至少有三个州的教师因感染新冠病毒而死亡。
阿什莉·德玛里尼斯在密苏里州的一家医院住院三周后，于本月去世，现年仅34岁。一名三年级教师周一在南卡罗来纳州去世，另外两名教育工作者最近在密西西比州去世。
目前尚不清楚新学年开始以来，美国有多少教师感染了新冠病毒。但是，仅密西西比州就报告了604例学校教师和工人的感染病例。
兰迪·温加滕是美国教师联合会主席。她说，学校需要一些指导方针，比如要求戴口罩和严格的社交距离规则，才能安全地重新开学。
韦恩加滕说：“如果社区的疫情传播太高，就像密苏里州和密西西比州那样，如果不具备病毒检测的基本设施，没有防止病毒在学校传播的保障措施，我们认为不能重新开学。”。
39岁的约翰尼·邓拉普，是堪萨斯州道奇市高中的教师。他说，他考虑过在学区要求老师和学生戴口罩之前辞职。不过，他患有癌症和高血压的病史让他担心身边会有太多人。现有的健康状况，会使人们患重病和死于该病毒的风险更高。
邓拉普说：“我在一所高中工作，那有将近2000名学生，所以这有点违背我们半年来所得到的建议。”。
健康危机爆发的早期阶段夺去了许多教师的生命，仅纽约市教育部就有31名教师去世。
在全国范围内，美国教师联合会列出210名已经去世的工会成员。这份名单包括护工、退休人员以及教师。
新学年的开始带来新的死亡病例。
在密西西比州的牛津，42岁的纳科马·詹姆斯是一名中学教师，他还帮助指导高中足球。他于8月6日去世，那是开学的第一周。
拉斐特县学区负责人亚当·普说，当老师和学生重回教室上课时，他已经在自我隔离。普格说，詹姆斯在夏季训练期间曾与足球运动员共事，但调查没有发现与他相关的新病例。
另一名密西西比州教师汤姆·斯莱德于9月6日去世。这位历史老师最近在脸书上写出，他与新冠病毒引起的严重肺部感染进行的斗争。
校长雷娜·霍姆斯说，8月6日开学时，斯莱德正在亲自授课。他在与校外被证实感染病毒的人接触后开始隔离，他教课的最后一天是8月21日。
在南卡罗来纳州，28岁的De戴米翠娅（戴米）·班尼斯特在被证实感染新冠肺炎三天后去世，她的学区在一份新闻发布会上公布了该消息。学区表示，班尼斯特8月28日在温莎小学，于上课前参加教师工作日的工作。
再回到密苏里州，8月24日在位于圣路易斯西南115公里的波托西约翰·埃文斯中学开始了面授课程。阿什莉·德玛里尼斯那时已经住院，但她的姐姐詹妮弗·海森布特尔说，几周前她就在学校里为新学年做准备。
一名校方官员说，追查曾与病患接触者的调查发现，德玛里尼斯没有与任何教师、学生或工人有过密切接触。
德玛里尼斯患有哮喘，这会使人更容易患上新冠肺炎引发的严重疾病。在她出现体温过高、呼吸急促之后，她接受了新冠病毒检测，很快就住院了。
目前尚不清楚德玛里尼斯从何处、以及如何感染到病毒。
海森布特尔是一名护士，在纽约地区医院的重症监护室工作。她的姐姐患上了新冠肺炎，不过她并未患病
“我以为会是我，而不是她”
阿什利·汤普森和约翰·拉塞尔报道。
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