Ingham Health Officer Asking Schools to Pause In-Person Classes
According to the Lansing State Journal, The Ingham County Health Department is saying that schools should suspend in-person classes after spring break as a precaution to prevent the continued spread of COVID-19.
Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail issued a recommendation that schools move to remote learning for grades 6-12 for one week. (Lansing State Journal)
With all the numbers going up here in Michigan and so many families on spring break this week, there s no doubt that in-person classes should be put on hold for at least one if not two weeks.
LANSING For the third time in a month, Lansing School District pushed back its return to in-person learning.
The move comes after local health officials urged schools to keep students at home amid a spike in COVID-19 cases across the state.
In-person learning at Lansing schools will now resume on Monday, April 19, according to a press release issued Wednesday.
Administrators moved the original return date of March 22 back to Monday, April 12 after a district COVID coordinating committee, which included school nurses, expressed concern over rising cases.
The district is currently on spring break. Classes will be fully remote the first week back. The following week, students can choose to return to a mix of online and in-person learning.
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Michigan is currently experiencing one of the worst coronavirus surges in the United States. On Monday, The Ingham County Health Department recommended that local schools avoid in-person learning next week for grades six through 12.
Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail said she expects case numbers to increase as people travel for spring break this week.
“Schools are congregate settings, and are sparking off outbreaks, she said.
“There s a significant amount of transmission going on in the community, she said. There s a significant ability to basically catch that virus and then move it around, and then you re moving it around by traveling and going other places, so it s just a good time to be safe.”
LANSING – The Ingham County Health Department says schools should suspend in-person classes after spring break as a precaution to prevent the continued spread of COVID-19.
Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail issued a recommendation that schools move to remote learning for grades 6-12 for one week.
She made the request because the county’s test positivity rate is 15.2%, nine people died of the virus last week and roughly 150 people are hospitalized. The county had not seen nine deaths in a week since January.
“Looking at our percent positivity, case numbers and hospitalizations, I am deeply concerned,” Vail said in a statement. “That said, looking at our vaccination rates I am really hopeful. We are at a turning point in the pandemic.”
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