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Leslie Baker receives a shot at a new mass COVID-19 vaccination center at City College San Francisco.Nick Otto / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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So far the vaccine is available for those 65 and older and some essential workers. Who gets the shots first will be determined by age soon.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Nurse Patrick Sorensen administers a COVID-19 vaccination at City College San Francisco.Nick Otto / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
A group of doctors from the state of California is calling for schools in the state to reopen, according to a letter they have signed.
Thirty University of California, San Francisco doctors have signed a letter urging state officials to reopen schools by Feb. 1. They added that prolonged school closures are causing social isolation among children and could tax their mental health and well-being, according to a One America News Network report.
The doctors noted that there is a major increase in emergency visits for mental health issues last year among the youth.
Dr. Jeanne Noble, Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF said that closing schools have real health effects, adding that it is not just saying that they cannot do this to help COVID numbers.
Safe or unsafe to reopen schools now? Contrasting views from a superintendent and a physician
January 15, 2021
This week, two people involved in the debate over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to provide $2 billion in incentives to school districts that agree to bring back elementary school students in February and March offer different perspectives.
Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson, who joined six other large urban superintendents in criticizing the strategy, said the timeline is too compressed to reach a deal with teachers who have agreed to reopen when Covid infection rates are lower than Newsom proposes and the plan doesn’t consider the worries of parents in urban areas with high infection rates.