A hospital spokesperson says the facility is implementing crisis standards for staffing in keeping with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at this time.

The entire state is in the COVID-19 red zone, with an incidence rate of 180.72 average daily cases per 100,000 people as of Friday. 

The school's principal says, between COVID-19 and personal days, it's difficult to keep teachers fully staffed in classrooms.

Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering virus from the air. But they previously were in short supply, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials had said they should be prioritized for health care workers.

The White House says the federal website where Americans can request free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders on Wednesday.