The Wolverine Wake-Up

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bidens wants schools to be open by his 100th day in office. The CDC released new guidelines and people are starting to think they will prevent kids from going to school. The goal for grades K-8 is five days a week. So why are these new rules coming a year into the pandemic? They say this is because schools have been reopening on their own. With this being limited from federal resources, most schools being open haven’t been tracked. Texas, Florida, and Georgia are the three biggest states with schools open k-12. About 76% of students are in school and that’s the highest COVID transmission rate. Hybrid learning helps keep all students from being together. The goal is to have only 40% of students back in school.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/19/969467560/if-schools-follow-cdc-guidance-bidens-reopening-goals-could-be-hard-to-reach?utm_source=morning_brew

-Ebby Hoffman

The other night, fans were allowed to watch the NY Knicks lose a basketball game in person for the first time in 352 days. Across the East River, the Brooklyn Nets also welcomed back fans for the first time since the pandemic started. Both arenas (Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center) are capped at 10% capacity for now, which means priority is given to season ticket holders and people who tend to eat shrimp cocktails while watching basketball. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo has allowed attendance at arenas provided that fans show a negative Covid-19 test 72 hours before the event starts. The Barclays Center is even sending ticket holders an at-home Covid-19 test as part of the price of admission. It’s the first major North American sports venue to do so. The Knicks and Nets make it 14 NBA teams (out of 30) that are allowing fans to attend games. No arena is allowing more than 25% attendance.

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/02/23/fans-return-nycs-basketball-arenas

-Kennadi Zeien

Welcome to The Wolverine Wake-Up Guess the Wake-Up Crew Member game, where one of the Crew Members gives a few hints of who they are, and the first student to email Mr. Freeman with the correct guess, earns 5 points for their House! When you think you know who the Crew Member is, you’ll want to send an email to: freemanl@ags-schools.org

The winner will be announced during announcements after lunch on Friday.

Crew Member Clues

*name translates to "stone mountain" in the German language

*participates in competitive eye brow dancing

*designed the original logo for The Wolverine Wake-Up

-Disclaimer: One or more of these clues is made up but completely awesome, so we kept it.

A fearsome storm continued to roll through the south and central US on February 16, 2021. At least 20 people have died in the storm or its aftermath. GM, Toyota, and Nissan to suspend operations at some plants. Airlines have had to cancel over 4,000 Texas flights since Monday. US oil output fell by a record one-third. Walmart and other retailers temporarily closed their stores in the region. The storm also snarled coronavirus vaccine rollout efforts. Some authorities in Texas had to rush doses into people's arms before they spoiled. The blame game has kicked into high gear about what exactly caused the power crisis in Texas.

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/02/16/snowstorm-unexpectedly-freezes-us-businesses

-Keagan Skacal

Jared Issacman, an entrepreneur, and St. Judes Hospital selected Hailey Arceneaux for a trip to orbit in a SpaceX capsule. Hailey, who is 29 years old, was hoping to complete her goal of visiting all seven continents before turning 30. However, now, she is going to space. She is a physician's assistant at St. Judes Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. She along with three other people will be on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Flordia which is scheduled to launch later this year. This will be the first crewed mission to circle Earth in which none of them are actual astronauts. Hailey will be the first person with a prosthetic body part to travel into space. Metal rods replace her bones in her leg after her bone cancer that she beat nearly ten years ago. She is doing this in hopes of inspiring people worldwide but especially the patients at St. Jude.

-Victoria Selle

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/science/spacex-hayley-arceneaux.html