It is almost a new school year, and with the new school year, comes a new COVID strain.
With kids returning to classrooms in only a few weeks, sickness is something every parent dreads.
What is this newest variant of COVID and what are doctors seeing in their offices?
“With COVID 19 going on in the community, I have patients coming into my office or rescheduling due to finding out they have COVID,” said Allergist, Dr. Donald Asbury.
The new Eris variant of covid has been spreading recently. COVID is spread through droplets and particles that carry the virus when the infected person sneezes, coughs, or even speaks – all things that happen in abundance in a classroom.
So how can children protect themselves from these ever-changing viral strains, and how serious are the symptoms of the Eris variant?
“It seems like different strains are always forming. It seems like some are able to spread more than others and it seems like this strain is an easy spreading thing. It is getting into the community, and nursing homes and hospitals. Fortunately, it is not as severe,” said Dr. Asbury.
Physicians say teaching children proper hand washing etiquette, correct mask-wearing, and being up to date on vaccines can help in overcoming COVID in this coming up school year. --->READ MORE HERE
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U.S. students' recovery of pandemic-related learning losses has stalled just months before schools must finalize plans to use their relief dollars, according to research published Tuesday.
The report was released by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA), an education company which creates academic assessments for students in pre-K through twelfth grade. Researchers assessed test scores of public school students in grades 3-8 from the winter and spring.
The data shows that not only are students entering high school a full year behind academically, but the gaps between test scores today and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic are widening.
The gap between pre-pandemic and post-pandemic test scores widened by an average of 36% in reading and 18% in math this academic year, according to NWEA. Students on average are expected to need 4.8 additional months of instruction to catch up in reading, while they will require an extra 4.4 months in math.
At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” the report reads. “Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer supports this conclusion."
"Growth has slowed to lag prepandemic rates, resulting in achievement gaps that continue to widen, and in some cases, now surpass what we had previously deemed as the low point," the report continues. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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