Aprille Hanson Spivey
Jazmin Santiago (center) hugs her sister Jessica, standing with her mother Yetica Del Ángel and her youngest sister Jerrica Santiago at St. Theresa School in Little Rock May 13. After battling leukemia, Jazmin, 12, will return to in-person instruction at the school this fall.
Aprille Hanson Spivey
Jazmin Santiago (center) hugs her sister Jessica, standing with her mother Yetica Del Ángel and her youngest sister Jerrica Santiago at St. Theresa School in Little Rock May 13. After battling leukemia, Jazmin, 12, will return to in-person instruction at the school this fall.
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Every 27 seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with blood cancer, but only 30 percent can find a compatible relative to donate bone marrow for treatment, according to DKMS, an international nonprofit with more than 10 million potential donors listed on its registry.
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With almost a semester of learning under their belts, students and teachers are bracing for a trend upward in COVID-19 cases.
Following the Thanksgiving holiday, several schools saw an uptick in positive cases, which is likely to continue into January following Christmas.
“What I m seeing is there are a few more cases,” said superintendent of Catholic Schools Theresa Hall. “Not that they’re starting at our schools, but families are doing more activities in groups, which I feel is a cause for some of this growth.”
However, there have not been any schoolwide outbreaks and in-school transmissions are low, thanks to diligent efforts in mask-wearing, social distance, hand-washing and keeping groups isolated by classes or grades, Hall said. For the week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4, all Catholic schools in Arkansas reported the following to the Catholic Schools Office: