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Classroom or online learning? Orange County debates how to teach students during omicron spike

Voice of OC, Jan. 13, 2022

January 13, 2022

Classroom or online learning? Orange County debates how to teach students during omicron spike

Sanghyuk Shin, [associate professor of nursing], at UC Irvine, said state officials need to rethink their approach to schools during the surge. … Poll after poll shows that in communities of color, people who are not vaccinated are willing to be vaccinated if their concerns are met … I do think that public health interventions such as remote instruction could bide that time to reach these communities,” [said] Shin.