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is important. the kids typically get the virus from adults, and so the teachers could be one conduit for infection. in a lot of cases kids are getting infected at home. we did see in the spring and winter when schools reopened, we didn t see outbreaks on a wholesale basis, so the schools generally did a good job of controlling spread within the classroom. kids would get infected at home and come to school sick, but you didn t see large outbreaks occurring. but we were implementing a lot of mitigation, kids were generally wearing masks and kept in pods, some schools had implemented testing, gone to hybrid models where they had basically two shifts, a morning and an afternoon shift and cut the class sizes in half. we re going to be going into the school year where a lot of schools have lifted those mitigation tactics, and so we re dealing with a more contagious variant and we ve changed how we ve approached trying to control spread and that sets up a condition that we could see outbreaks

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