Masks, well-ventilated classrooms, and other precautions are key to reopening schools

Masks, well-ventilated classrooms, and other precautions are key to reopening schools

The research all but shouts that closed schools have been exceedingly harmful for students. … “The bulk of schools that have remained closed…have been schools that tend to serve low-income kids,” says Dr. Dan Cooper, a pediatrician at the University of California, Irvine. … The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also said that teacher vaccination isn’t necessary to reopen schools. And Cooper agrees. “I am totally in favor of ‘Let’s get the teachers vaccinated as soon as we possibly can.’ But I would not make that a condition for reopening schools at all.”