Lingering Swine Flu
Swine Flu continues to spread, but with few serious cases. Everyone seems less afraid. But at some schools, kids are staying home. A few schools with a lot of absent students closed this week, including Boston Latin.
My son brought home a letter from school Tuesday informing me that a handful of kids in the Cambridge system have the flu. (Cambridge — but not Boston — is in Middlesex County, home to half of the confirmed H1N1 cases in the state.) Might be Swine Flu; it might not, the letter said. Doctors have stopped testing in most cases. Still, per state order, anyone with flu symptoms was asked to stay home for seven days.