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COVID & Kids + Covid Updates | Week of 9/9/24
Column: University Approved Absences must be expanded for illness
“Only significant health conditions that cause students to be absent for around five or more consecutive class days will be approved. This includes ‘severe communicable diseases that require isolation.’ While this would have included COVID-19 a few years ago when a 14-day isolation period was expected, new CDC guidelines only require isolation until the person is fever-free for 24 hours with no fever-reducing medicine.”
Only significant health conditions that cause students to be absent for around five or more consecutive class days will be approved. This includes “severe communicable diseases that require isolation.” While this would have included COVID-19 a few years ago when a 14-day isolation period was expected, new CDC guidelines only require isolation until the person is fever-free for 24 hours with no fever-reducing medicine.
Opinion: I loved my teaching career. COVID normalization stole it fro…
“The COVID-19 pandemic took that from me. Actually, that’s not quite right. It was the perceived “end” of the pandemic that really ruined my teaching career. I am immunocompromised and rely on medication to manage an autoimmune disease. This means vaccine protection from the virus is probably less effective for me than for most people. Also, my particular illness – Crohn’s, an inflammatory bowel disease – has been shown to put me at significantly greater risk than most for long COVID: a potentially chronic condition that can be very debilitating. And despite how it may seem, COVID circulates widely much of the year: We are still in a pandemic.”
The COVID-19 pandemic took that from me. Actually, that’s not quite right. It was the perceived “end” of the pandemic that really ruined my teaching career.
I am immunocompromised and rely on medication to manage an autoimmune disease. This means vaccine protection from the virus is probably less effective for me than for most people. Also, my particular illness – Crohn’s, an inflammatory bowel disease – has been shown to put me at significantly greater risk than most for long COVID: a potentially chronic condition that can be very debilitating. And despite how it may seem, COVID circulates widely much of the year: We are still in a pandemic.
COVID is spreading more now than in any previous back-to-school season. 3 things parents can do
COVID is spreading more now than in any previous back-to-school season. 3 things parents can do
R P Shah Memorial Trust for Kids & Global Health on Twitter
Long thread - 1) When the pandemic started I immediately started looking for the long term problems that people who were long haulers in the previous SARS pandemic faced , that allowed me to focus on the expected issues ctd@LongCovidKids