Just because school opening isn’t causing higher levels of community transmission doesn’t mean that there isn’t individual risk to teachers and staff. If we had wanted schools to safely reopen, we should have worked hard as a society to keep transmission rates down and to invest resources in schools.
~Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and a visiting professor of health policy at George Washington University.
The CDC’s recommendations about school reopenings are better than previous guidelines and teacher union leaders seem to approve. They say they have a road map based on science, but teachers still have concerns. Here’s a description.
What about the Red Zones?
According to the new color-coded zones, the CDC identifies counties by Covid-19 risk, blue, yellow, orange, and red. Each zone is supposed to follow specific mitigation steps, with the red zone being the most concerning.
Dr. Walensky says: If we get to a point where we are beyond the red zone here, really high levels of community spread related to the variants or related to just more transmission, we may need to revisit this again.
CNN reports that most zones are red zones. CONTINUE READING: CDC Recommendations Are Clearer, But Teachers Face the Same Problems and New Ones
Fewer than 100,000 children in the US live in a county considered “low” or “moderate CONTINUE READING: CDC Recommendations Are Clearer, But Teachers Face the Same Problems and New Ones