Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.

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

The Lee County School District, which has just under 900 students, began classes Aug. 9 but noticed attendance drop to about 82% on Friday, Superintendent Earl Ray Schuler said.

By Monday, the rate dipped to 81%, and 14 staff members called in sick, Schuler said.

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    If you’re alive the vaccine helped. It wasn’t meant to be a never-get-it vaccine. Just that if you did catch it your chances of dying were lower.

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      I tried to be as clear as possible that I appreciated the vaccine, still plan to keep it up to date, and don’t blame its inability to catch every mutation, and someone still needs to get lecturey about it…

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        My bad, the way your sentence was worded it seems like you expected the vaccine to prevent infections not just severity. It’s an important point that is subtle.