Mono Sweeps the Senior Class at BCC High School @mcps @mocoboe

Following all the winter break New Year’s Eve gatherings, B-CC’s senior class made up over a third of all January absences.

Following all the winter break New Year’s Eve gatherings, B-CC’s senior class made up over a third of all January absences. As B-CC hit its highest absence rate since September, questions spread. Was it senioritis? Was it COVID-19?

We may have the answer: mono.

B-CC senior Marley Boss says, “Two weeks ago I got a facetime call from a group chat that hasn’t been active in weeks. Mono had hit our friend group, and all I could think about were the stories that I had heard. She specified: “kids missing weeks of school, kids being hospitalized, everyone seems to know who has had it.” 

As more B-CC seniors discovered their spleens were swollen—not to mention what a spleen even is—the spread of mono became undeniable. At Capital Medical Group, if a teenager comes in showing Mono symptoms, the pediatrician can usually guess what school they’re from because of how Mono travels in clusters...

Mono Sweeps the Senior Class – The Tattler (bcctattler.org)