An Indiana school announced it is temporarily closing to stop the spread of flu and RSV.
What's more, half of all classes have up to 40% of students home sick with either flu, RSV and/or COVID-19.
"I've been the school leader here for 25 years [and I] have never seen anything like this," Burke-Fondren said.To stem the spread of these highly infectious respiratory illnesses, Burke-Fondren said in-person classes were canceled Thursday and Friday. While the building is cleaned and disinfected, students from nursery to 12th grade will participate in remote learning.
"What's surprising to me is that it's happening this soon," Burke-Fondren told WHAS 11. "That's the part that makes me worried. How can we try to slow this down right now in our community?" Experts say flu season is starting much earlier than usual and cases of RSV don't usually spike until late fall or early winter.from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that over the first three weeks of flu season, clinical laboratories have recorded more than 9,100 positive flu tests -- the highest number of tests recorded this early in a season since 2009-10, the same year of the swine flu outbreak.
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