(Anita) For the tenth straight week, the total number of COVID patients in Iowa Hospitals has grown.
As of Wednesday, September 8, there was a 10-percent increase in COVID Hospitalizations. Eighty percent of the patients treated for COVID in an intensive care unit have not been fully vaccinated. Children accounted for 29-percent of the positive test results in Iowa this past week, and seven percent of the COVID patients in Iowa hospitals are under 18 years of age.
CAM Schools Superintendent Paul Croghan says COVID is under the classification of Influenza. Croghan says they continue to disinfect much like last year; hand sanitizers are located at entryways for visitors to use. Croghan says they remind students daily to use the hand sanitizer stations before eating lunch and practice social distance.
Croghan strongly encourages vaccinations and is pushing for COVID shots simultaneously as the influenza vaccinations on October 18.
Students must be fever-free and symptom-free anytime during the school year. Croghan says if a student tests positive will be quarantined for ten days, family members without symptoms will be exempt. He says they will work with the quarantined students to keep up with their school work.
