How Many Shoals Students Have COVID?

 

Assuming the Shoals is following the same pattern as the rest of the state, quite a few returning students have COVID. In 2020, slightly over 700 statewide tested positive for the virus during the first week of classes. How about 2021? Almost 5,600. 

On a national basis, since the first COVID case was reported early in 2020, children have made up 14.6% of the cases. During the week of August 7th, children accounted for 22.4%, an increase attributed to the Delta variant.

Yet ballgames haven't been cancelled, pep rallies continue, and classes most certainly remain in person, at least in most schools. It would seem not only Austin Powers likes to live dangerously.

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For the slender bar tender, his job was a breeze.

He was quick to pour and eager to please.

He handed out the fruity nips

And bowls of crispy tortilla chips,

All enhanced with a light spray of Chinese Disease. 

You have been warned...