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Cape health officials say a perfect storm of variants and pandemic fatigue contributed to a third wave of COVID-19 cases that filled area hospital beds and closed the doors of the Cape s largest school system for over a week this spring. By mid-March, the towns of Barnstable and Yarmouth had the highest positivity rates in the state. At one point Barnstable s positivity rate was 10.20% , more than five times the state average. Areas of the Cape continue to remain in the state s highest-risk red zone. While case numbers are dropping, Cape officials fear next week s April school vacation week will create another surge as families travel and visit with friends and relatives. ....
Hybrid Learning Will End For All Sandwich Students Next Month capenews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capenews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Now the school just needs the vaccine nearly 2,000 doses. “That’s what we’re waiting for,” school Superintendent Roger Forget said Wednesday afternoon. The plan is to dispense 1,997 first shots in a single day possibly March 19 to pre-K through grade 12 staff in the Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Mashpee and Upper Cape Tech school districts, he said. “It’s not just teachers. It’s everyone. It’s the bus drivers. It’s the custodians,” said Forget, who worked with state Rep. Steven G. Xiarhos, Sandwich Selectman David J. Sampson and Sandwich fire Chief John Burke to get the state Department of Public Health to approve the school as a vaccination site. ....
SANDWICH – The Sandwich STEM Academy and Sandwich High School switched to remote-only classes Thursday and Friday after approximately 30 staff memberswere absent last week, Sandwich School Superintendent Pamela Gould said. Sandwich Education Association President Chelsea Craig said the remote model was used “due to so many teachers quarantining because of close contacts” with people who had COVID-19. Cases of the virus have spiked across the Cape over the past month. Many of these were not school-related, Craig said, adding that she was exposed to COVID-19 from her daughter s preschool. As of Friday afternoon, seven staff members and students in the STEM Academy and Sandwich High School were confirmed to have coronavirus but there was no evidence of community spread in the building that houses grades 7-12, Gould said. ....