http://www.waow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11340344
Crandon School District closes due to illness
Posted: Oct 19, 2009 3:10 PM CDT
By Katie Rosenberg
CRANDON (WAOW)—Administrators at the Crandon School District say they are closing down for the rest of the week. Glenda Huettl, the Crandon Director of Instruction and school nurse, says that administrators decided to cancel classes because 36% of high school and middle school students and 22% of elementary students are out ill. All school activities are also canceled.
Administrators would not say if the majority of students were from suffering flu-like symptoms or were diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.
Doors will be locked, and remain locked, after school ends today. Classed will resume Monday, October 26th.
At least one of the schools in our area sees sense. *eye roll*
thanks , kirdona I appreciate your posts .
Were starting to get alot of cases in my area too !
Los Angeles, CA:
Nurses plan strike over swine flu conditions at hospitals
October 19, 2009 | 12:59 pm
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/nurses-plan-strike-over-swine-flu-conditions-at-hospitals.html
More than 16,000 registered nurses are locked in a contract dispute with officials at 37 Catholic hospitals statewide and plan to strike Oct. 30 out of concern that the hospitals’ lax safety standards put them at risk of catching H1N1 flu.
The California Nurses Assn., which is in bargaining talks with San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West hospitals, announced the strike this morning. Local hospitals expected to be affected include California Hospital Medical Center, St. Vincent Medical Center, Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center, St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Community Hospital of San Bernardino and St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino.
Nurses also plan to picket two Catholic Healthcare West hospitals in Nevada. Nurses have been wrangling with the hospitals over pay, healthcare benefits, and adopting state guidelines for responding to H1N1 flu that were published earlier this year by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The guidelines include supplying nurses with N95 protective masks and isolating infected patients.
Nurses have been demanding more protection from the H1N1 flu all summer, an association spokesman said, but became increasingly concerned after a nurse died in July. Karen Ann Hays, 51, a cancer nurse at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento, died July 17 of a severe respiratory infection, pneumonia and H1N1. Hospital officials could not confirm whether Hays, a triathlete and marathon runner, became ill at work.