HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Some schools in the Tennessee Valley have made the decision to temporarily transition to virtual learning as COVID numbers continue to surge in Alabama.
August 29, 2021
Columbia High School
Columbia High School will transition to remote learning from August 30 and return to campus on September 7 following Labor Day.
The school will serve curbside meals to students on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. during this period.
August 27, 2021
Brooks Elementary School, Brooks High School, Wilson School
Hybrid learning (A/B) schedules will be in place in these schools from August 30-Sept 12. Sept. 1 and Sept. 8 are e-learning days for all students.
Cullman County Child Development Center
The Child Development Center will be closed beginning Monday, August 30. The CDC will reopen Monday, September 13.
August 26, 2021
East Lawrence Elementary, Hatton Elementary, Hatton High
East Lawrence Elementary, Hatton Elementary, and Hatton High will be virtual through September 7th.
Banks-Caddell Elementary (Decatur)
Banks-Caddell Elementary is transitioning to remote learning starting on August 27 through September 7.
Brindley Mountain High School and Asbury High School
Brindley Mountain and Asbury High Schools are transitioning to remote learning from August 30 to September 6. The district on August 25 said there have been 189 positive COVID test results in the district over the past ten days.
Of those test results, 79 were from Asbury High School and 46 were from Brindley Mountain High School.
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Moulton Elementary, Moulton Middle and Lawrence High schools
Moulton Elementary, Moulton Middle and Lawrence High schools will return to in-person instruction on August 30.
Colbert County Schools
Colbert County High School will return from remote platform on August 30, 2021.
Good Hope Primary, elementary middle, high schools and Parkside K-8
Good Hope Primary, elementary, middle and high school and Parkside K-8 will all temporarily transition to remote learning starting August 27 and will return in-person on September 10.
Students will pick up assigned equipment on August 26.
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"You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it."
The U.S. Food and Drug administration has issued a warning after health officials learned some people have been using drugs for livestock to try and treat COVID-19.
This time, the administration is advising against the use of ivermectin, a drug commonly used to treat parasites in animals.
It's become a problem in Mississippi, where coronavirus cases from the delta variant have skyrocketed over the last few weeks. The Mississippi State Department of Health issued a warning Friday, saying that the state's poison control center, "has received an increasing number of calls from individuals with potential ivermectin exposure taken to treat or prevent COVID-19 infection."
Specifically, the department says, Mississippians are purchasing the drug at livestock supply stores and using it to allegedly treat themselves. According to the MSDH, most of the incidents involved people with minor symptoms.
The FDA says it has also received a number of reports of people using the drug. The administration says that ivermectin is approved in small doses for some very specific cases in humans like parasitic worms, and in some topical applications, like for head lice or rosacea.
Ivermectin products for animals and ivermectin products for people however are two very different things. Because ivermectin is used to treat animals like horses and cows, which are significantly heavier than humans, those products have much higher concentrations of the drug, making them potentially toxic to humans.
"There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin," the FDA warmed. "That is wrong."
Back in January, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority approved ivermectin to treat the coronavirus even though regulators acknowledged there was not enough evidence that it works or is safe.
The FDA acknowledged that some research is underway into ivermectin's effectiveness as a coronavirus treatment, but it hasn't reviewed any of the data so far.
"Taking a drug for an unapproved use can be very dangerous," the FDA said. "This is true of ivermectin, too."
