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MISSION, Kan. – Children are having their noses swabbed or saliva sampled at school to test for the coronavirus in cities such as Baltimore, New York and Chicago. In other parts of the U.S., school districts are reluctant to check even students showing signs of illness for COVID-19.
Education and health officials around the country have taken different approaches to testing students and staff members and widely varying positions or whether to test them at all as more children give up virtual classrooms for in-person learning. Some states have rejected their share of the billions of dollars the Biden administration made available for conducting virus tests in schools.
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Virus testing strategies, opinions vary widely in schools
Education and health officials around the country have taken different approaches to testing students and staff members
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May 16, 2021
When they aren’t working in the family vehicle, the Begaye sisters – from left, high school senior Chenoa, fourth-grader Sonora, first-grader Annabah and second-grader Winona – usually sit around the kitchen table doing schoolwork. (Photo by Megan Marples/Cronkite News)
Education and health officials around the country have taken different approaches to testing students and staff members
Heather Hollingsworth
Associated Press
MISSION, Kan. Children are having their noses swabbed or saliva sampled at school to test for the coronavirus in cities such as Baltimore, New York and Chicago. In other parts of the U.S., school districts are reluctant to check even students showing signs of illness for COVID-19.