As students get sick in the first few weeks at Chelsea High School, a common time to get sick at school, is due to being around other students after three months apart. With the Chelsea fair and the student section amping up, germs begin to spread causing students to miss school.

“It’s like right after the fair, so everybody’s already kind of congregated and so then they get the new germs, then they bring it into the school, and then we share it around the school, school nurse Maeijane Nelson said.

Less than 20% of students got sick with Covid 19 but the germs around the school are not limited to Covid 19. Other germs are mostly spread from students mingling with friends and sports teams.

“Saturday morning, I was going to my volleyball tournament, and I woke up with a sore throat, and normally my friends and I share Starbucks,” freshman Grace Andersen said. “I think I got sick from the drink-to-drink contact because another girl was sick on our volleyball team, and she showed up and she drank out of it, and I didn’t know. And then I was sick the rest of the day.”

There continues to be a lot of variety in the symptoms students experience. The different schools in the Chelsea school district come with their own set of symptoms, but at the high school, the most common feeling is dizziness.

“I was getting a lot of people coming in with dizziness, so let’s try to figure that out and see if it was related to an illness that was going around,” Nelson said

With many illnesses going around and germs being spread to peers, Nelson’s advice is clear and easy to follow.

“What’s more important in teaching people that you really have to trust your own body and how your body recovers from something,” Nelson said.