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Kristin R. Moyer
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11 years at Gartner
18 years IT industry

Kristin Moyer is a research director in Industry Advisory Services/Banking and Investment Services. She has more than 17 years of experience across the global high-technology industry in a variety of roles. Ms. Moyer's research coverage includes card… Read Full Bio

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Five Days in School, and the First H1N1 Communication Arrives

by Kristin Moyer  |  August 28, 2009  |  Comments Off

My colleague, Rick DeLotto, has blogged about H1N1 quite a bit over the past few months (see here, here, here and here).  School is back in session in many places in North America – my kids started this week.  I asked Rick how long it would take for us to hear things about H1N1 in the school, and he basically said, “not long.”

It took five days back in school for this note to come home from my youngest son’s preschool:

ATTENTION

A child in the classroom has been diagnosed with…H1N1.  The child was in school on Monday and Wednesday, but became ill on Thursday.  The child was not in school today.

The child attends another preschool that has several reported cases, so it is possible that they contracted it at the other school.  Nonetheless, please watch your children carefully and following the guidelines in the attached sheet if you see symptoms of influenza illness…

I looked at our county school district website, and they do not have any set procedures for H1N1 – just links to what it is and such.  Maybe they’ve outlined procedures but haven’t posted them?  One can hope anyway.

Please review Gartner’s advice regarding H1N1, both on the Gartner Blog Network and www.gartner.com.

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