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?
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.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/12/24/new-cdc-warning-invasive-strep-a-infections-among-children-rising/?sh=22f376f52025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/spike-in-severe-illness-caused-by-strep-a-bacteria-is-global-phenomenon-including-in-canada-1.6813665
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON429
https://www.9news.com.au/national/strep-a-australia-experiences-surge-in-flesheating-cases-murdoch-childrens-research-institute-study-finds/3ee5f78c-6e73-48f7-af59-596c42178346
I'm still mad that people latched onto immunity debt like it was fact at the same time we were getting a ton of information about how covid weakens your immune system.