School districts in Kentucky, Texas cancel classes amid 'surge' of illnesses including COVID

[riversedge]

Source: abc news



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Just weeks into the new school year, districts in multiple states are canceling in-person classes for several weeks due to respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, among students and staff.

Two school districts in Kentucky -- Lee County School District and Magoffin County Schools -- said they were closing due to "widespread illness."

LCD canceled classes on Tuesday and Wednesday and switched to virtual classes on Thursday and Friday.
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"We're seeing a lot of illness being reported consistent with COVID and influenza," Scott Lockard, public health director for the Kentucky River District -- which includes Lee County -- told ABC News. "Lee County had a surge of cases and attendance dropped below the threshold needed to stay open, so they closed.".........................................

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/school-districts-kentucky-texas-cancel-classes-amid-surge/story?id=102561169

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Remember that covid is airborne! It probably is time for masks until this surge is over IMHO

[tanyev]

1. We had an all-staff training day Wednesday bringing people from 5 buildings

all together in one building. I never stopped masking, so I had one on, but most people didn’t. Wouldn’t be surprised to hear about people getting sick. Quite a few of our youngest staff members wore masks, which I thought was impressive.

[oldsoftie]

2. Texas? I thought Covid didnt exist in Texas anymore

the Guvnah & ted cruz think so

[Blues Heron]

3. consistent with covid and flu - maybe do some testing? why so vague mr. public health?

[nwduke]

4. They threw science out the window

and went with politics a “prayer”! Dumb f*cks!

[Lonestarblue]

5. I pulled out my masks this week. Time to mask up again.

[cstanleytech]

6. Don't you mean that its "also" airborne?

[BigmanPigman]

7. I must checked out Worldometers a d TX and Kentucky are NOT even listed!

If you go to their individual states they show no new cases. NONE! But if you look at the graphs for each state you can see there are many new cases. There is a cover-up by the red states, again, still.

Meanwhile, the states of New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, etc are listed with current cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

[Igel]

9. Some states don't update daily.

So the days they don't update have blanks.

"Cases" is a fairly meaningless number. First year there were reported incidents of car crash victims whose cause of death was COVID--ignore the high-speed impact and blunt-force trauma. Still true today--there's a fine line between hospitalization with and hospitalization because of COVID. The data are unclear as a consequence and there's no way to separate the two groups retroactively and scant concern to clarify the data on-going.

This was cleaned up after a while for deaths, in most jurisdictions. Deaths from COVID may be a lagging indicator but it's far more reliable.

As for a cover up, if the data were suppressed you wouldn't see it on the graph. I don't know why, but the last date on the graph (as of when I'm writing this) is 8/19/2023. It's currently late CDST on 8/25/2023.

[Warpy]

8. Poor kids, I hope they're not getting what I had a year ago

I lost the month of August and recovery took another couple of months. The young will bounce back while I have to sort of slowly drag myself back, but it was miserable, whatever it was. Not Covid, just nasty.

[GPV]

10. How are you doing now?

[Warpy]

13. Peachy fine

It just took forever to recover.

[csziggy]

12. My husband and I had COVID a few weeks ago - We're both still dragging

We wear out really quickly so it's hard to get anything done. Plus, we both still have the nasty cough. Good thing we're both retired.

He tested positive, I didn't, but our PA said we both likely had it. His entire gaming group had it. They usually play twice a week - they might have their first game in nearly a month tomorrow.

[BlueWavePsych]

11. Get your booster shots.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Ventilator intubating is awful.

[AlexSFCA]

14. Please do not ever cancel in person classes for k12 ever again!

especially without emergency declaration.

[wolfie001]

15. ?

Uh:

Friday, March 13, 2020 the President of the United States declared a National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease Outbreak