Less than two weeks into the school year, a Kentucky school district has canceled in-person classes for the rest of the week after nearly a fifth of its students came down with Covid, strep throat, the flu and other illnesses.
The Lee County School District, which has just under 900 students, began classes Aug. 9 but noticed attendance drop to about 82% on Friday, Superintendent Earl Ray Schuler said.
By Monday, the rate dipped to 81%, and 14 staff members called in sick, Schuler said.
It’s immunity debt from those strict never-ending kentucky lockdowns, right? Or maybe they all forgot how to wash their hands?
Oh god I’m so stressed that undergrads are back I don’t want Petri dishes walking into my lab all the time
FLUnet isn’t showing a dramatic uptick in positivity, yet so I’m gonna say it’s almost entirely covid. For now at least. I’m sure RSV and Flu are waiting in the wings to start their seasons early.
I wonder if kids are getting hit particularly harder this wave.
Yeah, I doubt there’s a lot of flu going around or actually being tested for, but who knows? With the kinds of damage covid can do to the immune system people might just get sicker sooner and for longer every season.
In similar news, according to Biobot, wastewater numbers in Alexandria, VA are double the national average. Gonna see a huge drop off in activity here soon as all the get sick.
I guess the “immunity wall” isn’t stopping exponential growth in infections. Maybe it will work next year?
My guess is we’re going to be seeing this same pattern indefinitely - looks like we get cyclical upticks in fall and spring, and because vaccination is going to increase the rates of asymptomatic cases we’re going to see more covert infections. Hope that doesn’t impact the long covid numbers, because if it does, whoof.
Also obligatory joke that whatever they’re spending the defense budget on it’s not HEPA filters for the Pentagon.
People are still catching COVID? Why aren’t they vaccinated?
