Same district, different Issues: Reopening schools in COVID-19 hot zone neighborhoods

The small district that sits along the U.S. Mexico border has eight schools located within ZIP code 85349, where the COVID-19 infection rate is 166.3 cases per 10,000 residents – well under Arizona’s overall rate of 207.3 per 10,000. But five miles to the north sits Gadsden Elementary in ZIP code 85336, where more than 300 of the nearly 450 residents have tested positive for the virus.

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