LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — Flu, COVID-19, intestinal viruses, strep throat; add other illnesses to the list. The Fayette County Health Department said, around this time in the school year, the illness increase is a common trend.
“Typical start of the school year,” Yolanda Loveless, school health manager, said.
Loveless oversees the nurses in a majority of the county’s schools. The Health Department shared that, in the month of August, 29.1% of health office visits recorded in Infinite Campus by school nurses were illness-related, in the 58 FCPS it is contracted with…