Federal health guidance issued to help schools navigate reopenings and reduce COVID-19 transmission in classrooms, including universal masking regardless of vaccination status and layered mitigation steps, won’t be changed amid the spread of the delta variant, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said during a White House briefing Friday.
"We are not looking at updating our school guidance right now, I can tell you that most of the places where we’re seeing surges and outbreaks are in places that are not implementing our current guidance," Walensky told reporters during a virtual briefing.
A new report issued in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report highlighted the increased risk of COVID-19 infection due to the delta variant in one California elementary school; an outbreak of some 27 identified cases occurred after an unvaccinated teacher who tested positive for COVID-19, and experienced symptoms read aloud to an indoor class without wearing a mask despite school masking requirements.
She noted current COVID-related hospitalization rates among children are similar to prior surges, but the number of absolute cases are climbing. CDC-compiled data indicate pediatric
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