The school reopened yesterday, one week after increased absences and students with flu-symptoms prompted Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly to close all four divisions to prevent H1N1, or “swine flu,” from spreading in the HM community. Kelly shut down the campus at the end of the school day last Tuesday at the recommendation of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, he said.
The school has maintained “fairly consistent” communication with city health officials over the past four weeks “in light of the need to report the presence of flu-like symptoms, confirmed cases of Influenza A or H1N1,” growing to almost daily contact, Kelly wrote in an email to the Record.
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