Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said Sunday that President Biden's stimulus bill needs to be passed in order for the nation's schools to be able to reopen safely in the pandemic.
Officials from the CDC and Education Department outlined overall reopening rules, as well as school-specific ideas like teaching in the cafeteria.
Students at New York’s West Brooklyn Community High School listen to questions posed by their principal during a current events quiz and pizza party in the school’s cafeteria last October. (AP Photo/Kathy Willen, File)
(CN) Safely reopening schools, as defined by top U.S. health officials, means ensuring there’s little to no transmission of Covid-19 within them. With a new playbook offering specific, science-based guidelines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aims to help schools achieve that goal.
California to expand vaccine eligibility to millions with pre-existing conditions
From CNN s Stephanie Becker and Cheri Mossburg
A health care worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Las Mesa, California, on February 11. Bing Guan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The US state of California is adding millions of people to its Covid-19 vaccination priority list, including residents “at high risk with developmental and other disabilities and those with “serious underlying health conditions.
The plan, outlined by state health officials in a briefing Friday, will begin March 15 and allow cancer patients, pregnant women, and other disabled individuals to join health care workers, seniors, teachers, and farm staff in line for a vaccine. The expansion could add as many as 6 million more Californians to the priority list.