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The Wall Street Journal reports:
Federal health and education officials urged the nation’s elementary and secondary schools on Friday to reopen safely as soon as possible, saying they can operate by strictly adhering to safety precautions to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission in classrooms and in their communities.
In new guidelines for schools, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said students and teachers should be required to wear masks at all times and maintain distances of at least six feet from one another as much as possible.
Also essential, the agency said, are proper hand-washing practices, cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, and working with health departments to use contact tracing, isolation and quarantine to reduce the risk of transmission once someone has been infected.
NPR reports:
The update offers a few key changes to earlier language, including a color-coded chart that divides schools’ reopening options into four zones: blue, yellow, orange and red. Districts with low community spread of the coronavirus (blue, 0-9 new cases per 100,000 in past 7 days) or moderate transmission (yellow, 10-49 new cases) are encouraged to consider reopening for full, in-person learning.
Schools in areas with substantial transmission (orange, 50-99 new cases per 100,000) may still consider a limited reopening, as long as they can layer multiple safety strategies in the classroom. In hard-hit communities (red, more than 100 new cases per 100,000) elementary schools may consider limited reopening, with physical distancing required, but the CDC recommends middle and high schools be virtual-only unless mitigation strategies can be met.
The CDC has released its clearest guidance yet for reopening schools.
The update makes key changes to earlier language — including a new color-coded chart that divides school reopening options into 4 zones based on the level of community transmission.https://t.co/Tl5ywYChHn
— NPR (@NPR) February 12, 2021