In anticipation of steep challenges reopening schools amid an omicron-driven surge of infections, districts are planning to ramp up COVID-19 testing when classes resume in January.
The importance of returning to in-person learning has been pressed by doctors, health experts, politicians and educators, even amid the omicron surge.
The news comes as the number of New York City children in the hospital with COVID-19 quadrupled in December, health officials said. Coronavirus testing is available in Times Square in New York City. After the discovery of the omicron variant, health officials urge people to get vaccine boosters. "This thing is exploding," Goldstein said. "Why don't people have to opt out of testing, instead of opting in? And why can't we mandate vaccines for eligible children?"
But it's not simple to quickly introduce the strategy. In New York, for example, the county has to approve "test to stay" before a district can adopt it, said Bob Lowry, deputy director for the New York State Council of School Superintendents. Many districts touch more than one county, he said. Harwich Elementary School nurse Holly Tavano helps her daughter, Linnea, 10, with a coronavirus test Dec. 6. Students at the school in Massachusetts have access to testing that lets them stay in school if they've had a COVID-19 exposure.
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