The first week back to school in the COVID-19 era brought alarming scenes from Georgia, one of the first states to reopen schools. Read more:
It was. But, she said, it didn’t have to happen. Schools should require students to wear masks. And Jones and others have advocated that students remain in one classroom all day, rather than changing en masse several times a day, to lower the risk of exposure.
“This isn’t the time to find loopholes in the guidelines,” said Taylor Heald-Sargent, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine outside Chicago. With more schools opening in the next weeks, administrators, teachers, parents, and students will be paying attention to what happens in Georgia, experts say.
“It supports the idea that they definitely can get infected and can replicate virus in their noses even when they’re not that sick,” said Heald-Sargent, a co-author of the JAMA study. “It seems possible that they are able to spread coronavirus. Kids are frequent drivers of respiratory infections.
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