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With respiratory illness on the rise, school administrators are reporting uptick in student absences amid "tripledemic" – Hartford Courant

Some school administrators are reporting a rise in empty desks and teachers calling in sick as the “triple-demic” takes hold in Connecticut classrooms. After two years of pandemic interruption, which drove unprecedented levels of chronic absenteeism and learning loss, educators hoped the 2022-2023 school year would put students back on track. But a wave of respiratory illness has put absences back on the rise in some districts, temporarily stalling their efforts. ....

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