Opinion: This is how to safely reopen schools amid COVID-19, lunch included — and what’s not worth doing

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OPINION: Vaccines and masking work well for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks in schools. But other strategies like plexiglass barriers and temperature checks aren't worth the effort, Brandon Guthrie writes.

Just when schools were getting ready to reopen for the new school year, cases of COVID-19 started surging in the United States, driven in large part by the more contagious delta variant. School administrators around the country are working to bring students back into the classroom safely, while still providing kids an enriching learning environment.

The more people in a school who are vaccinated, the lower the risk of an outbreak in the school and the lower the likelihood that someone will develop severe disease if infections occur. COVID-19 vaccines are currently available to anyone age 12 or older, and it is possible that at least one of the vaccines will be authorized for younger school-age children in the later months of 2021 or early in 2022.Masks are important, too.

Daily temperature checks and symptom screening have also not proved to be an efficient way to prevent COVID-19 in public settings. This approach misses asymptomatic cases, which are especially common among children and younger adults. Still, students, teachers and staff should stay home until they have a negative test if they are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 or have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.

There is little direct evidence on the risk of transmission when comparing different approaches to the lunch problem, but there are some basic guiding principles.

 

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Masks are useless, drop the act.

Um…. Vaccines do NOT prevent infection or spread And are not worth the effort

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Here come the crazies.

Ivermectin and zinc. Vaccines are not safe and not effective.

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Stop fuckin lying ppl the vaccines are NOT safe. Safety trials will not be completed until 2023

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A non medical grade cloth masks stop a class iv bio weapon? Masking has little to no effect on covid 19. Wash your hands frequently, avoid close contact, and get vaccinated.

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Reopening = suicide?

His opinion sucks. How do masks not designed to stop Covid 'work well'? Seems like Covid had thrived while masks have been worn.

good luck

Reopening = murder!

this is terrible news

good luck

Liar.

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