New York City, walloped first and hardest by COVID last year, has led America’s (and indeed the world’s) rebound on getting kids back into their classrooms. Not only is New York the country’s only big city with in-person K-8 schooling, the tight control protocols set up Mayor de Blasio and outgoing Chancellor Richard Carranza were the model used by the CDC as a national standard.
CDC finds scant spread of coronavirus in schools with precautions in place Laura Meckler
Replay Video UP NEXT Schools operating in person have seen scant transmission of the coronavirus, particularly when masks and distancing are employed, but some indoor athletics have led to infections and should be curtailed if schools want to operate safely, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in papers published Tuesday. The CDC team reviewed data from studies in the United States and abroad and found the experience in schools differed from nursing homes and high-density work sites where rapid spread has occurred.