After one week, Oak Grove schools identified 6 cases among faculty and staff, 41 cases among students, and quarantined 100 people.
Lamar County School District plans on mandating masks for 2 weeks, then re-evaluating... "the decision to continue wearing face coverings will be based on the number of positive COVID-19 cases in our schools”
The CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics both recommend masks in schools to help mitigate spread against the highly contagious #DeltaVariant.
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🧵Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday officially called for a special legislative session to LIFT a ban on school mask mandates katv.com/news/local/ark…
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson: There are currently 1,250 Arkansans hospitalized for COVID and 260 are on life support.
Amid 1,250 Arkansans hospitalized due to the #DeltaVariant and 260 on life support, there was a sharp increase in demand for vaccinations. 30,756 vaccines were given in the last 24 hrs, said Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. 25,000 were new doses. 🙌🏽🙌🏽
20 y.o. Neil Patel was an honors scholar at Penn State University from Upper Merion Township. The band member and talented drama student was infected with COVID in March and passed away on August 1, 2021 #SoulsLostToCovid 💔triblive.com/news/pennsylva…
The Patels told how their son suffered severe heart & lung damage in the early stages of Covid, needed more help than a ventilator could provide & placed on ECMO, suffered repeated infections & bleeding & had to have an arm amputated as the virus raged his young body.
Gov. John Bel Edwards reissues indoor mask mandate for Louisiana. More than 2,000 infections today involve children. "Let's rid ourselves of the notion, right now, that kids can't get COVID. We can't send children back into school unvaccinated & unmasked." theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
As confirmed COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to surge in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards reinstituted an indoor mask mandate on Monday requiring residents to wear face coverings in schools, churches, businesses and any other public spaces.
Jessica DuPreez said her fiance, 39 y.o. Michael Freedy, wanted to wait until the vaccine had been available for a year before getting it. “There was never any intention to not get it,” she said. Michael leaves a wife and 4 children. #SoulsLostToCovidhuffpost.com/entry/unvaccin…
“He was only 39; our babies now don’t have a dad,” said Jessica DuPreez, “You can’t say, ‘I’m young, and it won’t affect me.’ Because it will.” gofundme.com/f/mike-father-…
Since Freedy’s diagnosis, DuPreez said she has gotten vaccinated, as has her oldest child. She is now encouraging anyone who is on the fence about getting the vaccine purely because of side effect concerns to get it.
The longer the pandemic continues, the more danger to healthcare workers on the frontlines. More than 200 staff members at 2 San Francisco hospitals have tested positive, most in breakthrough Delta infections. nytimes.com/2021/07/31/us/…
Some of the cases were asymptomatic, most involved mild to moderate symptoms and only two required hospitalization. The asymptomatic cases were discovered through contact tracing.
About 75 to 80 percent of the more than 50 staff members infected at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital were fully vaccinated, Dr. Lukejohn Day, the hospital’s chief medical officer, said in an interview on Saturday.
🧵As coronavirus continues to kill thousands per day, it's important to humanize their deaths. This thread is dedicated to the countless #SoulsLostToCovid worldwide. By telling their stories we'll ensure that their memories live on.
🇧🇷 23 y.o. Isabel Aquino, law student from João Pessoa, Paraíba #Brazil passed away from COVID. Two months later, her father Sandro Freitas Aquino, 56, passed away from the same disease #SoulsLostToCovid 1/30 g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/not…
🇵🇪41 y.o. Alonso Espino Lobatón, better known as Rapper One, music producer, freestyler & icon of hip hop from #Peru lost his life to COVID. He leaves a wife and 4 children. #SoulsLostToCovid 2/30 elcomercio.pe/luces/musica/a…