Flu shuts down Ashwaubenon High School
Sports events will be forfeited
Updated: Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009, 3:21 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009, 2:56 PM CDT
ASHWAUBENON - Ashwaubenon High School is closing for the rest of the week because of large numbers of students absent with flu-like symptoms.
According to a letter sent home to parents and posted on the school’s Web site, increasing student absences reached about 41 percent Wednesday. In order to reduce the likelihood of increased student illnesses, the letter states, the school will close to students Thursday and Friday. Staff members are expected to report to school as usual. All other schools in the district will remain open.
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local_wluk_ashwaubenon_high_school_closing_200910141455_rev1
Wondering when our district will close....I know they are monitoring cases closely here.
thanks for posting the article :)
NOnt. boy, 15, dies after contracting H1N1 virus, second boy recovering
The Canadian Press
TIMMINS, Ont. |
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 4:48 pm
TIMMINS, Ont. - A 15-year-old boy in Timmins, Ont., has died after contracting the H1N1 virus, the first such death reported in the northern Ontario city.
Dr. Susan Kaczmarek, the medical officer of health for the Porcupine Health Unit, says it’s uncertain if he had any pre-existing medical conditions.
A second 15-year-old boy diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, is recovering at home.
Kaczmarek released the information on Wednesday but did not say when the boy died.
Six people in the area have been diagnosed with H1N1 to date.
http://www.680news.com/news/headlines/more.jsp?content=20091014_164821_8204
Health Care Workers Calling in Sick - WI
Updated: Oct 14, 2009 7:11 PM EDT
By Sarah Thomsen
Prevea says it’s never seen anything like this — hundreds of people every day coming in to clinics with the flu.
Now health care workers are getting sick, forcing Prevea to hire more doctors just to keep up.
When you go to the doctor, the first person to great you is the patient services representative. Now people like Judy are the ones getting sick. Tuesday 20 of her coworkers stayed home.
“We have a lot of staff members having to go home or not come in because they’re running fevers,” Dr. Ashok Rai, Prevea president/CEO, said.
“It’s tough, supply versus demand. Right now the demand is really high right now and supply is even getting sick.”
Prevea is seeing so many patients and sick health care workers, they’re bringing in temporary providers and hiring more doctors.
“We were planning on it anyway because we’re a growing company so we have more and more volumes, but right now in areas I’m kind of re-shuffling providers to kind of meet the demand,” Rai said.
Prevea says it’s seeing record numbers of patients with the flu or similar viruses needing to be seen, especially in pediatrics and urgent care.
To give you an idea just how busy Prevea has been, at just one urgent care location the health care workers treated 130 patients in an eight-hour period.
“And wait times are a little longer than they are. We don’t want anybody to ever have to wait, but right now with the amount of illness, it is very bad,” Rai said.
Wednesday Prevea was giving out its first H1N1 shots to health care workers, hoping to keep them as healthy as possible so they’re ready and able to treat other sick patients.
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=11316397