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Party raises ‘superspreader’ fears after Bronx student tests positive for COVID-19

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An 8th grader held a birthday party with four classmates from her Bronx school before testing positive for COVID-19 — raising fears of a “super-spreader” …
An 8th grader held a birthday party with four classmates from her Bronx school before testing positive for COVID-19 — raising fears of a “super-spreader” event, The Post has learned. The party, which took place inside a small apartment, featured a “cake fight” with girls smearing icing on each other’s faces, the kids told staffers at PS/S 20 in Norwood. “She blew out the candles,” one said. “They were not social distancing, and nobody was wearing masks.” The birthday girl,13, did not come to school on Monday because she felt ill. On Wednesday morning, the mom told the school that her daughter had tested positive. “She’s very sick,” with a fever, chills, chest pain, a sore throat and rashes, the insider said. The school immediately sent the students in the same class to the isolation room to wait for parents to pick them up.

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