Fauquier schools quarantine hundreds for COVID exposure.

The school district has only been opened a week and already faces a wave of cases.

WARRENTON, Va. — It's only been a week since school started in Fauquier County, and already hundreds of students have been forced to quarantine because of COVID exposures.

Fauquier schools says it's quarantining 244 children after possible COVID exposures. Sixteen students have tested positive, along with four staffers, according to the schools' COVID dashboard.

"It's frightening, really frightening," Anna Hoover, a mother of three children in Fauquier County schools, said.

Her oldest already had COVID. She said he had a high fever for eight days, and at one point his lips turned blue as he struggled to get oxygen.

"One of the scariest things about it though is that he was my healthy kid," Hoover said.

Hoover said her youngest child gets viral induced asthma.

"He has had a cold and it's knocked him out for weeks," she said.

Superintendent David Jeck is pleading with parents to ask their children to wear masks in class and on buses in hopes of keeping schools open.

"Wherever possible, please have your child wear a mask. Please!" Jeck said in a video for parents Tuesday night.

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