Katie O’Connor, a fifth-grade teacher in Colorado, filmed an emotional video of her preparing for the school year. “It’s just so different than what we're used to. And it's a change, and sometimes change is hard.”
New US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on education and child care come down hard in favor of opening schools, saying children don't suffer much from coronavirus, are less likely than adults to spread it and suffer from being out of school.
But the new guidelines posted Thursday do recommend that local officials should consider closing schools, or keeping them closed, if there is substantial, uncontrolled transmission of the virus.The CDC has been promising new guidelines for more than a week, after demands from President Donald Trump that the agency alter its recommendations for opening schools."It is critically important for our public health to open schools this fall," CDC Director Dr.
"It is important to consider community transmission risk as schools reopen. Evidence from schools internationally suggests that school re-openings are safe in communities with low SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates."The guidelines recommend against screening all students for coronavirus."CDC does not currently recommend universal symptom screenings be conducted by schools," the guidelines read.
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