LA County elementary schools could reopen in a matter of weeks, says Barbara Ferrer

LOS ANGELES (KABC) – Los Angeles County elementary schools could only be a few weeks from reopening if the rate of coronavirus seizures dropped, the province’s top public health official said Wednesday.

Public health director, dr. Barbara Ferrer, said that if the decline continues, the country will be able to reopen primary schools within a few weeks for limited tuition.

She said the province should have an average new daily dropout rate of 25 per 100,000 inhabitants for schools in the transition nursery through sixth grade. This is a threshold set by the state. The country’s current rate is 48 per 100,000.

“I believe it will take us two to three weeks to lower the rate, and it assumes that everyone is still doing their best, according to the rules to make sure the transfer goes down and not back up,” Ferrer said.

“And the state, along with the case, there are a lot of requirements that schools must be able to meet if they are going to reopen while we are in the press sector,” she added.

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Ferrer added that the next three to four weeks are crucial for the reopening of schools, and that the country ‘must do everything right’ to achieve this.

Eyewitness News commented on the union representing teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District, United Teachers Los Angeles, but has not heard of it.

Ferrer’s comments came when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that with the right mitigation measures, there is a way to a low-risk, personal learning.

LAUSD officials are pushing the lead back. Some local teachers and LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner are not comfortable returning to the personal learning of that CDC report alone.

Beutner said in addition to the safety precautions, teachers and staff should be vaccinated before returning to the classroom.

Vaccination attempts are still hitting the wrong buttons, but California is improving its implementation. After last week California nearly nearly crippled the country in percentage of the population, it is now in 38th place, with about 7% of the population receiving at least one dose.

That is more than 2.7 million doses so far, the most in the country. Nearly 58% of the doses sent to our state were distributed.

While hospitalizations in LA County are still high, they are declining. Ferrer warned that COVID-19 deaths were still on the rise, and that the country still had a long way to go.

City News Service contributed to this report.