Nurses at reopening schools brace for 'uphill fight' to keep students safe from COVID-19

DES MOINES, Iowa — School nurses have a message for parents: Expect your kids to be sent home more quickly this year if they seem even a little ill. “There have been a lot of kids I’ve sent back to class with a headache, and now I might send them home. That will be different for sure,” said Nicole Cable, the nurse at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa. In normal times, a student with a headache, fatigue or slight cough would not raise alarms in a school nurse&rsquo