Mon’s students on Tuesday were in the midst of a mini-spring break.
They’ll go back Thursday and then enjoy another round of days off next month around Easter.
The local district, which is now on a mask-optional policy, finished last week with 24 positive cases among students. Three staffers also presented with positive diagnoses.
“We’re right where we need to be,” Donna Talerico said. “Now we just to get through the rest of the school year.”
“I think we’re in a pretty good place now,” Talerico, who is deputy superintendent of the school district, added. “Especially where we were this time two years ago.”
The 15th day of the third month of 2020, was the weekend after Gov. Jim Justice ordered all state schools shuttered, in preparation of the then-coming coronavirus.
Which left the district scrambling to get online with remote learning, Talerico remembered.
“We had the technology, so we were lucky,” she said, “but there was no playbook. Every day was a frontier.”
Two years later, the state appears to be coming out from under the shadows of the pandemic, with green all the way around on the county alert map maintained by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
Well, mostly all the way around, with 53 of West Virginia’s 55 counties (including Mon and Preston) showing that safest hue for life with the contagion.
Not that COVID still isn’t a consideration in the state.
Another 39 deaths from the contagion were reported to the DHHR between Tuesday and the previous day, Monday. A 57-year-old woman from Berkeley County was the youngest of the most-recent victims.
That brings the death toll as of Tuesday in the state during the run of the pandemic to 6,598.
There are currently 262 people being treated for COVID in West Virginia hospitals, the DHHR reports, with 72 patients in intensive care and another 44 on ventilators. Five pediatric patients are among those hospitalized.
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