...aren’t affecting our children’s education; or their health.At least 45 small school districts across Texas have had to temporarily stop offering in-person classes due to COVID-19 cases so far this school year.https://t.co/WEFbrVQSMo
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 3, 2021
From Aug. 23-29, there were 27,353 new positive COVID-19 cases among students in Texas public schools, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, making it the biggest one-week increase in the entire pandemic. The state reports 51,904 cases among students and 13,026 among staff since the school year began. That’s about 1% of the 5.3 million students enrolled in the state as of January.Children’s hospitals, which have been inundated with COVID-19 patients at levels never seen before during the pandemic, have also seen an uptick in patients as the school year is underway, said Dr. Corwin Warmink, medical director of emergency services for Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth.“Every year when school starts, we expect a bump in volume [in our emergency room] — we planned for it, we scheduled for it,” Warmink said at a news conference Wednesday. “In the regular year we’ll see about 300 kids a day during this time. On Monday, we saw 601, an all-time record. ... At 600, we’re physically unable to care for kids in a timely fashion.”Districts handle closures as a result of COVID-19 differently: Smaller ones tend to temporarily close all campuses, and larger ones close classrooms, grade levels and individual schools.
Good to know government is looking out for our personal freedoms. I guess this means we're on our own on the highways and in the face of robberies, huh?
From what I was told by someone who did some reporting on the situation here, it sounds like most of the schools will have to shut down before long. I want to blame the anti-vaxx-anti-mask people who have been flooding school board meetings over that when they never go to any others. One old piece of crap has never had a child in the public school system in my state being a recent transplant from Staten Island well into her dotage.
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