1,000 students out of Stafford Co. school due to flu-like illness

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening at many schools particularly after homecoming.
My suspicion is this happens every year, but after the past few years many more kids are staying home and going to the doctor who wouldn't have done so in 2019.

It’s this. Every fall and winter it’s the same thing. More are inclined to stay home for any symptoms now. In previous years, they were in class coughing, with fevers, blowing their noses.

Not according to my pediatricians office. There is something going on this year cause a confluence of significant upper respiratory illness among children. They are having trouble keeping up and the pediatric units at our local hospitals are already at capacity. This is not the same as every year.

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Couldn't get an appointment at my peds office. This is not normal. And scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening at many schools particularly after homecoming.
My suspicion is this happens every year, but after the past few years many more kids are staying home and going to the doctor who wouldn't have done so in 2019.

It’s this. Every fall and winter it’s the same thing. More are inclined to stay home for any symptoms now. In previous years, they were in class coughing, with fevers, blowing their noses.

Not according to my pediatricians office. There is something going on this year cause a confluence of significant upper respiratory illness among children. They are having trouble keeping up and the pediatric units at our local hospitals are already at capacity. This is not the same as every year.

Could it be that due to COVID, the same number of kids are sick, but parents are more likely to bring them to the doctor? Depends on what pediatric unit at hospital means, how serious does it have to be.

No. A lot more kids are much more sick this year. I work in a pediatric practice.

My point is you don't see the kids who don't come in. You don't know how many are as sick as the kids who come in. In previous years there could have been many more that you didn't see at the practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening at many schools particularly after homecoming.
My suspicion is this happens every year, but after the past few years many more kids are staying home and going to the doctor who wouldn't have done so in 2019.

It’s this. Every fall and winter it’s the same thing. More are inclined to stay home for any symptoms now. In previous years, they were in class coughing, with fevers, blowing their noses.

Not according to my pediatricians office. There is something going on this year cause a confluence of significant upper respiratory illness among children. They are having trouble keeping up and the pediatric units at our local hospitals are already at capacity. This is not the same as every year.

This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening at many schools particularly after homecoming.
My suspicion is this happens every year, but after the past few years many more kids are staying home and going to the doctor who wouldn't have done so in 2019.

It’s this. Every fall and winter it’s the same thing. More are inclined to stay home for any symptoms now. In previous years, they were in class coughing, with fevers, blowing their noses.

Not according to my pediatricians office. There is something going on this year cause a confluence of significant upper respiratory illness among children. They are having trouble keeping up and the pediatric units at our local hospitals are already at capacity. This is not the same as every year.

+ 1

Couldn't get an appointment at my peds office. This is not normal. And scary.

Us either and when we did get in the office seemed stressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Happening at many schools particularly after homecoming.
My suspicion is this happens every year, but after the past few years many more kids are staying home and going to the doctor who wouldn't have done so in 2019.

It’s this. Every fall and winter it’s the same thing. More are inclined to stay home for any symptoms now. In previous years, they were in class coughing, with fevers, blowing their noses.

Not according to my pediatricians office. There is something going on this year cause a confluence of significant upper respiratory illness among children. They are having trouble keeping up and the pediatric units at our local hospitals are already at capacity. This is not the same as every year.

+ 1

Couldn't get an appointment at my peds office. This is not normal. And scary.

Us either and when we did get in the office seemed stressed.

Same. It’s concerning.