Perhaps America will have a new appreciation for the job good teachers do. Probably not, but it's a nice hope of mine.Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.
Amid the barrage of learning apps, video meet-ups and e-mailed assignments that pass as pandemic home school, some frustrated and exhausted parents are choosing to disconnect entirely for the rest of the academic year.
Others are cramming all their children’s school work into the weekend or taking days off work to help their kids with a week’s worth of assignments in one day.
“We tried to make it work the first week. We put together a schedule, and what we found is that forcing a child who is that young into a fake teaching situation is really, really hard,” said Alexandra Nicholson, whose son is in kindergarten in a town outside Boston.
“I’d rather have him watch classic Godzilla movies and play in the yard and pretend to be a Jedi rather than figure out basic math.”
That stress is only compounded for families with multiple children in different grades, or when parents work long hours outside the home. In some cases, older siblings must watch younger ones during the day, leaving no time for school work............
"I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school
Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.apnews.com
So Georgia wants to open back up, but their curve hasn't really started dipping yet? Sounds like a good plan.same graph but for states
www.forbes.com
Oh, I understand, but if they're opening up the state, that includes the worst impacted areas and that will spread. It just doesn't seem like the best time for them, yet.
Here is the best update I have seen on the drugs that are being looked at
COVID-19 Treatment Update: Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Leronlimab, Ivermectin, and More
As the death toll inches closer to 150,000, researchers across the globe are racing against the clock to develop an effective treatment option for patients suffering from COVID-19.www.laboratoryequipment.com
so far, remdesivir looks like the best as far as how effective it has been and how close it would be to getting distributed
Remdesivir was recently given on a compassionate-use basis to 53 critically ill patients hospitalized in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Japan. Clinical improvement was observed in 68% of the patients treated, according to an analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Each patient was given at least one dose of remdesivir and evaluated during a median follow-up of 18 days. According to the study results, 36 patients (68%) had an improvement in oxygen-support class, including 17 of 30 patients (57%) receiving mechanical ventilation who were extubated. A total of 25 patients (47%) were discharged, and 7 patients (13%) died; mortality was 18% (6 of 34) among patients receiving invasive ventilation and 5% (1 of 19) among those not receiving invasive ventilation.
I don't have the link, but a little while back I read that less than 33% of those that got on a respirator lived....dunno how accurate that is but achieving 68% among patients that are already critical seems like it is very effective.
Honestly I trust this thread a lot more than I do TV media
