About 40 Haines School students were out sick last week as state health officials warn of a myriad of respiratory illnesses affecting children across the state.

“It’s definitely having an impact,” said Melissa Ganey, a Haines School staff member, “We’ve had a lot of students out of school the past few weeks.”

Alaska is seeing higher than normal rates of hospitalization among both adults and children due to influenza, Covid, the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV),…