Opening Our Schools Safely
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Schools: World Health Organization, September 20, 2020
Are children at lower risk of COVID-19 than adults? What is the role of children in transmission? Should children with underlying health conditions return to school? The Word Health Organization answers these and many more questions.
COVID-19 Guidance for Safe Schools, American Academy of Pediatrics
The purpose of this guidance revision is to continue to support communities, local leadership in education and public health, and pediatricians collaborating with schools in creating policies for safe schools during the COVID-19 pandemic that foster the overall health of children, adolescents, educators, staff, and communities and are based on available evidence.
Schools and the Path to Zero: Strategies for Pandemic Resilience in the Face of High Community Spread, Brown School of Public Health
The nation’s educators are living through extraordinary challenges. Recommendations to get students back for in-person learning are necessary, for the good of students, and reasonable, because safety can be achieved.
What the CDC School Reopening Strategy Means for Superintendents, ABC Science Collaborative, March 3, 2021
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Mitigation, guidance that provides high-level recommendations to enable schools to open safely, and remain open.
Mayo Clinic research confirms critical role of masks in preventing COVID-19 infection, Mayo Clinic, November 24, 2020
“New, unpublished data from researchers at Mayo Clinic found that physical separation reduces the exposure of respiratory droplets and that three feet is helpful but 6 feet separation reduces particle counts to near baseline levels..”