The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools, experts said, but only if strictly enforced.
While teachers across New York City raced to sign up for coronavirus vaccines this week, it could be many months before schools are able to ramp up in-person instruction significantly, public health experts said.
Teachers and school employees should be declared essential workers and prioritized for COVID vaccinations in order to keep classrooms open, a Florida superintendent says.
The limitations to online learning are too great to overcome, say West Virginia officials. So on Tuesday, the directive to counties is to have no solely-at-home option.
The admission marks the first acknowledgement from the head of a major school system that the coronavirus vaccine is likely headed to the list of required school immunizations.
Wide-scale, school-site COVID testing of students and staff appears to be a key part of Joe Biden's hope of reopening classrooms within the first 100 days of his presidency.
