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?
People are still catching COVID? Why aren’t they vaccinated?
Oh god I’m so stressed that undergrads are back I don’t want Petri dishes walking into my lab all the time
strep throat
Meaning that they had a sore throat, didn’t know to swab their throat for the rapid test, swabbed their nose instead, and the nurse decided it wasn’t COVID after the rapid test was negative
there are rapid tests for strep throat and honestly, you can fucking tell on account of all the pus and the frequent rotting smell as it strep turns eats your throat tissue and shits out pus
Probably, lol. But also, serious strep infections have been increasing every year since we went back to normal. It’s been blamed on “lockdowns”, of course, even when it happens in places that barely had any covid mitigations, and strep is known to increase after respiratory infections because of the stress it causes on our immune system.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON429
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.
