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A Kentucky school district canceled classes nine days into the year after nearly 20% of students came down with illnesses including Covid, strep throat and flu.

Kentucky's Lee County School tackles COVID-19 and flu outbreak, shifts to remote learning for comprehensive sanitization, ensuring student and staff well-being amid health concerns.

Less than two weeks into the school year, a Kentucky school district has canceled in-person classes for the rest of week after nearly a fifth of the students came down with illnesses including COVID-19, strep throat and the flu.

One Kentucky district saw 200 students calling in sick after a surge of Covid cases. The new mutated variant is sparking the closure of multiple schools and colleges just weeks after classes started.

Lee County School District has shut its doors less than two weeks after it reopened following nearly a fifth of its students signing off sick. The district serves just under 900 pupils.

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For kids. >> correct. >> wow. >> what about if theres not masking in a school environment, still you argue it better to keep the schools, the schools are still safer. >> yeah, i think its a little more of a closer call there because youre going to have more transmission. we have an ongoing study of 60 school districts, 1.3 million children nationally involved in that study, and masking reduces transmission by about 80%. so youre going to have more cases and more transmission in these unmasked di...

Children safe at school at this point during the pandemic? >> i would say bravo. you are doing the best possible thing for childrens learning, but also as you said, for their social and emotional health. kids need school like fish need water. theres really abundant evidence run out of places like danny benjamins work -- a pediatrician out of duke -- has shown repeatedly schools are safer for kids than kids being in the general community where the risks of transmission of covid are enormous. so, ...

We have the resources. we have the viens. we need to do everything in our power to keep the classrooms open for students, where they learn best, where they get support from teachers after experiencing the trauma of the pandemic. >> secretary cardona, thanks very much for your time. i want to drill down more with this with someone who was on the forefront of research into covid and schools. distinguished professor of pediatrics at duke university, dr. benjamin thanks for your time. what do you ...