Bay Area health experts: CDC school reopening guidelines could hurt efforts to reopen classrooms
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Amari AL-Malik, 8, holds a sign this month as families and city officials discuss reopening San Francisco schools.Amy Osborne / Special to The Chronicle
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally issued guidelines last week on how to reopen schools safely. But some Bay Area health experts are not sure that what the federal agency is recommending makes sense or that it has students’ mental health in mind.
The CDC on Friday outlined its much-anticipated guidance for returning for K-12 students to in-person instruction in the coming year. It recommends handwashing, disinfection of school facilities, diagnostic testing and contact tracing to identify infections and separate infected people from others in a school.
Why Bay Area experts are praising CDC guideline halting COVID quarantines for vaccinated people
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From left, student nurse Anjali Sundararaman prepares to inoculate 73-year-old San Francisco native Adam Banks, as Martin Auzenne, 3rd from left, prepares to go to a rest area after receiving his COVID-19 vaccine from student nurse Karina Castillo during a vaccination clinic at the Southeast Health Center in San Francisco, California on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Both Sundararaman and Castillo are nursing students at San Francisco State University.Stephen Lam / The Chronicle
The CDC s new guideline that fully vaccinated people do not have to quarantine after direct exposure to the coronavirus was met with praise Thursday by Bay Area health experts.