After 4 straight weeks of will increase, weekly COVID-19 instances in Laramie County School District 1 are lastly beginning to lower.
“From Friday, Nov. 12 by way of Thursday, Nov. 18, the district was notified 54 college students and two workers members reported a optimistic COVID-19 check outcome,” LCSD1 Superintendent Dr. Margaret Crespo mentioned in a information launch.
The people had been at Afflerbach, Arp, Baggs, Bain, Davis, Dildine, Fairview/Lebhart, Hobbs, Jessup, Meadowlark, Pioneer Park, and Saddle Ridge elementary colleges; all three junior excessive colleges; and all 4 excessive colleges.
Crespo says those that had direct contact with any of the people who examined optimistic might be contacted and can obtain steerage concerning the following steps.
“As you could remember, youngsters age 5 and older at the moment are eligible for the vaccine which is run solely based mostly on parental alternative,” Crespo mentioned in a weekly video replace on Thursday.
“Within the coming weeks, we hope to have new info to share concerning our present COVID-19 protocols,” she added.
LCSD1 on Sept. 9 started requiring all students and staff to wear masks indoors when the county is at substantial or excessive danger for group transmission of COVID-19.
Laramie County has seen 513 lab-confirmed instances up to now 14 days, and as of Friday, had 270 lab-confirmed energetic instances, in keeping with the Wyoming Department of Health.
On Friday, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center reported they had been treating 44 sufferers with COVID-19, up from 19 on Oct. 17.
CRMC’s highest hospitalized inhabitants was 64 on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30, 2020.
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Vaccinations for COVID-19 started being administered within the U.S. on Dec. 14, 2020. The short rollout got here somewhat greater than a 12 months after the virus was first recognized in November 2019. The spectacular pace with which vaccines had been developed has additionally left lots of people with plenty of questions. The questions vary from the sensible—how will I get vaccinated?—to the scientific—how do these vaccines even work?
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