In a telephone interview with CNN’s Randi Kaye on Monday, Florida Education Association President Frederick Ingram says news that two additional teenagers died due to Covid-19 complications is “tragic” and “part of what we are going to have to deal with as well when you talk about student and children’s mental health.”
“Their classmates are getting deathly sick. Grieving for a child can be traumatizing, especially in a school setting. This is devastating for a child trying to make his or her way through grade school,” Ingram said.
Skyrocketing cases
To date, more than 38,000 minors have contracted Covid-19 in Florida, according to data released by the health department.
Florida, along with several other states including Texas, Arizona, and California, has become one of the Covid-19 hotspots in recent months, with new daily infections soaring from mid-June into July.
So far, more than 4.6 million Americans have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, Johns Hopkins reports.
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