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Nov 9 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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New Covid Hospital admits in HHS Region 4 (Southeast US) up 22% last week. Image
New Covid Hospital admits in HHS Region 8 (Upper midwest/plains) up 23% last week. Image
New Covid Hospital admits in HHS Region 9 (Southwest) up 16% last week. Image
Not sure what's going on here. Data dump? Flu/RSV coinfections? New *pediatric* Covid Hospital admits in HHS Region 4 (Southeast) up *544%* last week. Image

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Nov 12
🧵Waves of RSV, Flu, and COVID-19 continuing to crash across the country, inundating hospitals and closing schools. Still little to no pressure from @CDCgov on local Health Depts to reinstate school/transportation/ indoor masking.
TEXAS: "Marlin ISD will be closed on Monday, Nov. 14, due to a rise in absences related to illness. The school district said all campuses will be closed for deep cleaning and disinfection. School will return as normal for all campuses on Tuesday." kxxv.com/hometown/texas…
TENNESSEE: "School districts across East Tennessee have closed over the past two weeks because of illnesses." wbir.com/article/news/l…
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Nov 11
THREAD: RSV, Flu, COVID: Schools continue to close, hospital beds continue to fill, @CDCgov continues to refuse to call for mask mandates.
KENTUCKY: "At least 25 school districts have faced temporary closure or nontraditional instruction day so far in November. That’s a stunning number considering November just started last week. Nearly all staffed pediatric ICU beds in the state are full." nkytribune.com/2022/11/kentuc…
SOUTH DAKOTA: "“Almost everyone that I’ve seen in the pediatric hospital right now has RSV. It’s hitting hard this year. Avera’s pediatric intensive care unit has been at or near capacity for several weeks.” mitchellrepublic.com/news/south-dak…
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Nov 10
🧵USA: Flu, RSV, and COVID-19 still rolling across the country unchecked, closing schools and filling pediatric hospital beds. @CDCgov leadership still unwilling to push masks to stem the tide of illness & death.
KANSAS: "School administrators have shut down Christ The King Catholic School in Kansas City, KS, through Friday because of a rapid spread of illness among staff and students. The school has been closed since Wednesday." kctv5.com/2022/11/10/rsv…
KANSAS: "Overland Park Regional Medical Center is reporting a 100% increase in patient volume with up to 60 children treated daily in the pediatric ER over the past few weeks with viral infections, mostly RSV." kmbc.com/article/respir…
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Nov 7
"Classrooms are chronically overcrowded, 81% of students have experienced poverty and students recently had to pass through metal detectors before going to class." bkreader.com/2022/11/07/at-…
Along w/ tech inequities (access to wi-fi, inequitable rollout of devices) "we were thrown into something that we didn’t know what it was,” Morgan added. “Even adults couldn’t think straight.”
"Poverty at the majority Black school has increased in the pandemic. In the 2019-2020 school year, 76% of students experienced poverty. In 2021-2022 school year, that increased to 81% – about 1,176 kids, according to education department data."
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Nov 7
Interviewed in this story by @erinpdoherty:
1. Harvard *economist* saying the rush to spend aid is like "shooting bottle rockets at the moon"
2. Director of Georgetown's "Edunomics Lab" urging schools to *tie teacher pay increases* to "academic recovery."
axios.com/2022/11/07/aca…
Not interviewed: a school district leader, principal, or teacher.
Mentioned as a loss: NAEP scores, 'interrupted learning.'
Not mentioned as a loss: 200,000+ childrens' caregivers to Covid.
Also not mentioned: the connection between precarity & standardized test scores, the disproportionate likelihood of curriculum-narrowing test prep gimmicks for schools serving lower-income families
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Nov 7
THREAD: Another day of reports about uncontrolled RSV, Flu, and COVID spread amid ongoing @CDCgov refusal to push masks. Schools continue to close and transition to remote, hospitals continue to see severe cases.
KENTUCKY: "Fayette County Public Schools will be closed November 7 due to widespread illness in the district. A spokesperson says they routinely monitor student and staff absences. They say the number absences continued to climb over the past week." wkyt.com/2022/11/06/fay…
OHIO: "Stebbins HS is teaching students remotely today due to staff illness, according to a Mad River Local School District spokeswoma. Last wk, the CMO at Dayton Children’s Hospital told DDN the hospital was almost full due to RSV cases."
daytondailynews.com/local/area-hig…
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