Hood River County health and school officials are reminding parents not to send their children to school if they are exhibiting any kind of illness symptoms.  In a weekend Facebook video, County Health Officer Dr. Christopher Van Tilburg says schools are operating in a safe manner, but the community does have to help out by not having kids come to school when showing symptoms of illness.  Van Tilburg also says health officials advised the schools to discontinue contact tracing.  He says at this point of the pandemic the tracing is not that helpful, but he also advised if you or a family member test positive, notify the close contacts you are aware of.