Targeted hygiene means focusing hygiene practices at the times and in the places that matter most to help break the chain of infection and reduce the transmission of germs.
Even though educators have their work cut out for them to reduce chronic rates of absences this fall, this crisis does present an opportunity to make schools stronger and more conducive to learning.
More evidence shows masks significantly reduce the spread of COVID in schools as judges are taking varying stances on vaccine requirements, face coverings and other policies.
Hopefully, many school districts will use American Rescue Plan funds to invest in air quality projects, perhaps their first in decades. When they do, it is important that they invest wisely.
A dozen students and several others tested positive for COVID last spring after an unvaccinated, unmasked and symptomatic teacher in Marin County, California, read to an elementary school classroom, the CDC reports.
