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.
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.
Removed by mod
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…?
Removed by mod
It will not play any impact on normal day to day life.
Tell that to all the people who died. Oh wait…
Removed by mod
It’s not a few hundred people you smooth brain. Millions of people around the world died from it, and millions are still suffering effects of Long Covid. They aren’t all high risk.
Your lack of education is showing.
Worldwide in August 2023 you are looking at … 50 total deaths due to covid. Down from 4400 deaths in January 2023. Average is a few hundred.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-deaths?tab=chart
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
Covid is here forever but it’s so weak now it’s nothing more than a cold for 99% of the population. You can live in fear or you can move on and follow basic hygiene against any and all viruses and bacteria.
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.
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
Removed by mod