Kentucky school district cancels classes less than two weeks into year due to Covid, flu and strep
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Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.

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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?

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    strep throat

    Meaning that they had a sore throat, didn't know to swab their throat for the rapid test, swabbed their nose instead, and the nurse decided it wasn't COVID after the rapid test was negative

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      1 year ago

      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

      • macabrett
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • Monsieur_bleu [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      there are rapid tests for strep throat and honestly, you can fucking tell on account of all the pus and the frequent rotting smell as it strep turns eats your throat tissue and shits out pus