More than nine out of ten U.S. K-12 students live in COVID-19 ‘red zones’, or areas that are, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ‘high spread’.
This is according to information from the website Burbio, which watched the reopening of K-12 in the American schools, which was given to Fox News.
The CDC recommends that schools in the red zone meet stricter reopening standards, including a hybrid model of personal and virtual learning, or less attendance of primary school students.
The CDC’s mitigation strategy as part of its new school reopening guidelines launched last week includes color-coded community zones; the blue zone represents zero to nine new cases per 100,000 people, the yellow zone represents 10-49 new cases per 100,000, the orange zone represents 50-99 cases per 100,000 and the red zone represents more than 100 new cases per 100,000 – or at least 0.1%.
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Schools at all levels are expected to take measures to carry out measures, measures for social distance of 6 feet, regular cleaning of facilities and contact detection and diagnostic tests.
Red Zone schools need to go further than offering hybrid learning for elementary students, online learning for middle and high school learners unless schools are already open – in which case they need to implement all mitigation strategies – and only virtual sports and extracurricular activities.
CDC school reopening zones. (Fox News screenshot)
“We calculate that 93% of the students who are currently visiting ‘traditional’ schools live in the red level,” a Burbio spokesman told Fox News.
The spokesman noted that the CDC’s guidelines “should not include the closure of schools currently educating students in person, but by following the CDC guidelines, districts in ‘Always Virtual’ areas will have to meet higher standards in order to personally as districts opened earlier this academic year. ‘
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The CDC does not require teachers to be vaccinated before schools reopen as part of the new leadership, despite pleas from teachers’ unions, but teachers are next in line to get the vaccine, along with other essential workers and older people than 65 years. in accordance with CDC recommendations.
Guardian Doug Blackmer cleans a desk in a classroom at the Jesse Franklin Taylor Education Center in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall, File)
The unions of Biden and national teachers applauded the CDC’s reopening guidelines as a productive next step to reopen schools, which according to the president he wants to achieve on his 100th day in office.
‘These scientific guidelines tell us that our schools are safer if we have the necessary distance in the classrooms and on school buses, if masks are worn consistently and properly, when hand washing takes place regularly and when we can respond effectively to cases through testing and contact and when we follow other recommended steps, ‘Biden said in a February 12 statement in response to the news.
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He continued: “To meet these guidelines, some schools will need more teachers and support staff to ensure smaller class sizes, more buses and bus drivers to transport our children safely, more personal teaching spaces and more protective equipment, school cleaning services and physical changes to reduce the risk of the virus spreading. “