12-01-2020, 10:17 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur...story.html
I had posted earlier that the European experience with schools staying open during the next spike would be informative to study how transmission in schools is affected by high community prevalence. And their experience has generally been good, thankfully.
No matter how long the vaccines take, elementary schools should be aiming to be open for the spring at least. For high schools probably does make some sense to keep a hybrid system/minimize in person learning for as long as community prevalence is high.
Getting teachers early priority in vaccine distribution could assuage some concerns about going back to in person teaching, though may not make the most sense from standpoint of minimizing deaths or hastening the end of the pandemic. A lot of tough decisions on that front still remain after the ACIP meeting today prioritizing LTCF residents/staff and HCWs.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetin...20-12.html
Probably worth a separate thread. Also, I must say I am a mix of heartened and concerned that for such a critical public health meeting, the powerpoint quality is like something from a weekly didactic session prepared by a resident on limited sleep.
I had posted earlier that the European experience with schools staying open during the next spike would be informative to study how transmission in schools is affected by high community prevalence. And their experience has generally been good, thankfully.
No matter how long the vaccines take, elementary schools should be aiming to be open for the spring at least. For high schools probably does make some sense to keep a hybrid system/minimize in person learning for as long as community prevalence is high.
Getting teachers early priority in vaccine distribution could assuage some concerns about going back to in person teaching, though may not make the most sense from standpoint of minimizing deaths or hastening the end of the pandemic. A lot of tough decisions on that front still remain after the ACIP meeting today prioritizing LTCF residents/staff and HCWs.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetin...20-12.html
Probably worth a separate thread. Also, I must say I am a mix of heartened and concerned that for such a critical public health meeting, the powerpoint quality is like something from a weekly didactic session prepared by a resident on limited sleep.