Kentucky school district cancels classes less than two weeks into year due to Covid, flu and strep
nbcnews.com
Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.
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.
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Cases of covid are very low in Kentucky so it's likely RSV, Flu, and Strep that are the reason. Those are high.
Many states have minimized or even completely eliminated their Covid reporting systems, so I don't trust the numbers whatsoever. We know from wastewater treatment and other national measurements that the Eris variant is spreading massively, causing a new large wave of infections to form, since its primary mutation is one that helps it escape immune detection.
I really hope that new booster vaccine aimed at Eris comes out sooner rather than later.
I have closed my eyes. I am now protected from everything!
Hmm, has the fluoride calcified your third eye too?
FTFY.
Sidenote: We are seeing an emergence of more virulent strains of Covid, a virus that shut the world down because of its extremely virulent nature. The rest are just as infectious as they ever were.
New covid, spreading through a population where the most vulnerable have already been culled. Increasingly severe long covid effects, lower ICU risk, and much, much more infectious. That is until the strains that are more severe occur, because we all know, the more infectious the virus, the more mutations emerge.
Covid won't shut things down, that only happened because we didn't have a defense against it and how bad it would be. Turns out it wasn't that bad except for select groups of people too stupid to get vaccinated.
What planet do you live on…?
Vaccination makes you a carrier, it isn't magical virus killer juice.
Covid is virulent enough that at endemic capacity, it will mutate too wildly to keep up with vaccination.
We shut down to stop it from being endemic, but idiots couldn't be bothered to mask up and social distance, so it went endemic.
Mark my words, wave 3 is coming for everyone.
Edit: I need to say I got the vaccinations.
They reduce fatality.
What I'm not jazzed about is endless boosters because of dipshits.
It will not play any impact on normal day to day life.
Tell that to all the people who died. Oh wait....
Get your head out of the sand.
It was quite bad until we 1) got an effective vaccine and 2) the post-Delta mutations became less deadly over-all. If we get another bad mutation things could get ugly again.