Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.
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.
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.
Reported cases of covid are very low in Kentucky so it’s likely RSV, Flu, and Strep that are the reason. Those are high.
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.
Died when? 2020? Those who have died of covid today already are high risk. Are you suggesting that billions of people should stop living their lives to give a few hundred people a higher chance of not contracting an illness?
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.
It's 2023, we don't know what or how many mutations are going to occur over the next year, but we know we have made ourselves the perfect petei dishes to maximize the process.
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.
We understand you are still scared. That is okay. The rest of the population have moved on after the threat was removed. I'm vaccinated as well as my family and that is enough for most people.
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.
You are the equivalent of someone so terrified of HIV that they decide that they are going to refuse to be afraid by fucking everyone they can raw dog, while proclaiming "live in fear you losers!"... until you reap the consequences of your idiocy.
Only difference is that this isn't HIV, and the mutation you create is going to kill everyone.
Why would someone support your position when statistics show you are wrong? There is no threat, the public moved on, and everyone who wants can get vaccinated. Sorry, but no one is buying the fear you are spreading. The flu, measles, and RSV are larger threats to the public.