Families and staff at WHHS were sent an email regarding the CPS “Too Sick for School” policy in response to “an increase in highly contagious viruses spreading throughout the community.”

In past weeks, there has been an uptick in illnesses at schools throughout Ohio, leading some schools like Northside Christian Academy in Wadsworth to close for campus disinfection.

Earlier in the year, there was a huge surge in COVID-19 cases because of the new JN.1 variant, and combined with the Flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a health newspaper, Cedars Sinai, says that we are living through the rise of a “Tripledemic.”