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• The delay, Ryder said, was because Austin’s chief of staff was out sick with the flu.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• Public schools will only close if 40% of staff calls out sick.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
• Gary manned the window on days when both Marla and Alondra were off or out sick.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• Employees who would have drawn blood have been out sick.
  — Renée Onque, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Many were out sick or had to care for ill family members.
  — Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• D’Arcangelo, who had called out sick both Monday and Tuesday, didn’t attend.
  — Elizabeth Koh, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• By Monday of this week, the attendance rate had dropped to 81%, with 14 staff members also out sick, Shuler said.
  — Zenebou Sylla, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Hawks have had a few players out sick lately, so who knows, maybe Bish will be pressed into emergency duty.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• The grocery worker in California with a major retail chain said that over the last few weeks between four and six workers a day have been out sick.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2022
• Administrators have more time to replace staffers who call out sick.
  — Brooke Schultz, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• The company's previous policy allowed employees to call out sick eight times over the span of a year.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• Healthcare workers in particular being out sick at the same time.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• If Nick Senzel wasn’t out sick, Aquino would likely receive less playing time despite his defense.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
• What’s happening this fall is hardly a repeat of last school year, when students and staff were out sick with covid quarantining because they’d been exposed to the virus.
  — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• Wolves even contribute to the health of their prey populations by weeding out sick animals.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
• The trooper started calling out sick, unable to perform his patrol duties.
  — Fox News, 29 June 2022
• But the day her manuscript arrived, fate intervened when his assistant was out sick and Salerno opened the envelope.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• Whenever one of the remaining two teachers needed a break, or is out sick, another staff member or assistant must step in to help.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• Several airlines canceled flights when crewmembers called out sick with the coronavirus.
  — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
• Too many delivery drivers out sick could lead to delays in stocking shelves at stores or delivering packages.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• Schiraldi had been digging in for battle against the correction-employee unions, whose members were calling out sick from their shifts at Rikers by the hundreds, fuelling the crisis.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• Cody Bellinger returned after being out sick on Saturday. Cardinals: Gorman was in the lineup after sitting out a day with an illness.
  — Ken Maguire, ajc, 25 June 2023
• Bronny James, expected to be the team’s senior leader, was out sick Wednesday, and junior five-star prospect Isaiah Elohim was still recovering from a knee injury.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• Nearly 10% of teachers and school administrators were also out sick.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
• Under these policies, union leaders say workers have lost points or faced penalties for calling out sick with covid, suffering a heart attack, and getting into a severe car accident.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
• Some of those indicators are informal and anecdotal, like stories from friends or co-workers out sick after a positive test result.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• With health care workers out sick with Omicron themselves and the virus compounding pre-existing staff shortages, hospitals have less capacity to care for patients than before.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• As cases increase, an already arduous staffing shortage has been more difficult, with workers calling out sick to quarantine.
  — Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2022
• The Associated Press reported that some hospitals are struggling to remain staffed because so many employees are out sick.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2022
• With his team depleted with several players out sick and another suffering an injury during pregame warmups, Adames’ breakout performance was just what Urban and the Owls needed.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024