Teachers to play a role in the transmission of COVID-19 in schools – US CDC

Teachers could play a key role in the transmission of COVID-19 within schools, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday, citing a study conducted in elementary schools in a school district of Georgia, where The report comes after the agency’s researchers said last month that there was little evidence that schools were spreading COVID-19 infections in the country – based in part on a study by schools in Wisconsin – which raised concerns on the admission of persons enlightened. file. The Wisconsin study found that the spread of viruses in schools was significantly lower than the spread in the surrounding communities. The Georgia survey involving approximately 2,600 students and 700 staff members of a school district’s primary school showed nine groups of COVID-19 cases in which 13 educators and 32 students at The CDC’s report found that students were less than 3 feet tall. of each other, and that lack of or insufficient mask use in some cases contributed to proliferation. It was also reported that students ate lunch in classrooms, which could increase the spread. “These findings suggest that educators may play an important role in the transfer of the school and that transfer can take place in the school when physical distance and mask compliance are not optimal,” the report said. Of these, two clusters involved a probable transfer from teacher to teacher, followed by transfer from teacher to student in classrooms, the agency said in its weekly report on morbidity and mortality. The transfer of teachers led to about half of According to the survey, there are 31 school-related cases.

The agency was subject to a number of restrictions, including difficulty determining whether coronavirus transmission occurred at school or outside the local community. The distinction between the two types of transmission was particularly challenging when the 7-day average number of cases per 100,000 people was. The CDC said that the vaccination of educators by COVID-19 should be exceeded as an additional mitigation measure that should be added if available, although it is not necessary for reopening of schools.