FOX News’ medical associate is pushing for the reopening as more people receive coronavirus vaccine.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has officially launched the Daily Pass, an app designed to coordinate health checks, COVID tests and vaccinations for the safe reopening of schools.
“Like the golden ticket in ‘Willy Wonka,’ anyone with this pace can easily get into a school building,” LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner said during his weekly Feb. 22 update.
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Daily Pass, developed with support from Microsoft, generates a unique QR code for each student and staff member that gives access to a specific Los Angeles Unified location for that day only, as long as the individual receives a negative test result for COVID no symptoms and has a temperature below 100 degrees. Upon an individual’s arrival on campus, the QR code is unified by a school leader in Los Angeles who takes the temperature of the individual.
The Daily Pass will also be used by Los Angeles Unified’s school-based vaccination program to register and plan appointments, to track vaccines in stock, to check in and capture data during the appointment, to sort individuals at high risk. , provide waiting lists to low individuals and endanger dashboards to view data, among other features. All this information is shared with the relevant authorities.
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“Since June last year, our teams have worked closely with Los Angeles Unified to support remote driving schools,” said Eran Meggido, corporate vice president of Windows products and education. “We are delighted to be working with Los Angeles Unified to help educators, staff and students return to schools sooner and more safely. We are delighted that you will be using the Daily Pass.”
According to Beutner, LAUSD is the first school district in the country to implement the technology, enabling school officials to keep track of the health status of everyone within the district’s buildings.
“The Daily Pass sets the highest standard for school safety,” Beutner said in a statement. “MERV-13 upgraded air filters in every school, COVID testing for all students and staff at least every week and now the Daily Pass – Los Angeles Unified is proud to lead the country in creating the safest possible school environment.”
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LAUSD said the system “is adapted to accommodate the different types of people who visit a school campus on a given day and to include features related to COVID testing and contact detection and vaccination.” Although the app does not catch those who are asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19, school officials hope to address the issue through weekly testing of students and staff.
Daily Pass anonymous data will be used by collaborators from Los Angeles Unified’s research and health care – Stanford University, UCLA, The Johns Hopkins University, Anthem Blue Cross, Healthnet and Cedars Sinai – to provide insights into strategies for the safest possible school environment. to create. .
Daily Pass is available to all LAUSD employees, students 13 years and older, and family members using computers and mobile devices. Beutner added that staff will be assigned at the school entrances to assist the process and that someone without a phone or computer will personally walk through the process.
Students, families and employees have access to Daily Pass at https://dailypass.lausd.net. Students and staff must use their Los Angeles Unified applications. Family members can log in with their parent portal accounts.
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The long-awaited move comes because LAUSD plans a reopening of schools on April 9th. Beutner noted that although systems exist to vaccinate school staff in Hollywood Park, the government must do its part to make more vaccine doses available.
“I am encouraged by recent actions by both the legislature and the governor to help. Everyone has indicated that there will be more vaccines available for school staff,” Beutner said. ‘They have to act urgently, as students can not wait. We need a specific plan with a specific dose of commitment to Los Angeles Unified so that we can protect our school staff and everyone in the school community. This is what Chicago has done and this is what Long Beach has. We have to do it here. ‘
Following an announcement by California Govin Newsom earlier this month that at least 10% of the state’s vaccines will go to education workers from March 1, the governors’ office on Thursday unveiled a new plan outlining how the state vaccines to education workers will award.
Each week, the state will provide 75,000 doses to district education offices for distribution. Teachers and other educators get one-time codes to make quick appointments online. If so many vaccines do get through, it could take 320,000 K-12 California public educators to vaccinate.
Under Newsom’s guidelines, elementary campuses will be allowed to reopen when the adjusted seven-day average of daily infections by the province drops below 25 cases per 100,000 residents, a threshold reached earlier this week in LA County.
However, Unified Teachers of Los Angeles, the union representing teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians in the district, argues that personal education should not resume until the cases drop to 7 per 100,000, when the province leaves the “press level” , which means that the community is widespread. transmission. While the union and district remain in negotiations for a safe return to campus, union members must vote this week for the time being whether they agree to an order to return to work.
Meanwhile, LAUSD will begin offering child care, one-on-one and small group tuition, services for students with special needs and a return to athletic fitness from next week.
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According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, the United States surpassed 28.5 million COVID-19 cases and 513,000 deaths as of Sunday. California reported a total of more than 3.4 million COVID-19 cases and 5,1979 related deaths in the country
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Sunday reported 1,064 new COVID-19 cases and 107 new deaths, representing 1,191,923 cases and 21,345 deaths in the country to date. There are 1,661 people in Los Angeles currently being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, with 32% in the intensive care units in the hospital.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 75 million COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across the United States since Sunday.
Associated Press contributed to this report