Covid testing is key to reopening schools

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Public health are insisting on a national strategy to bring rapid testing to students and teachers — and get schools reopened

starting next month. The Rockefeller plan calls for students to be tested at least once a week, and school staff at least twice a week. But without clear protocols, experts warn states might have little to run on.health care executive and Arizona State University professor

Vanessa Castaneda, left, holds her son, Joshua, as he's swabbed for Covid-19 at a drive-thru testing site outside McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I. | AP Photo/David Goldman“So having the capacity and ensuring that schools can use it in a regular predictable fashion moving forward is important to the schools, to parents and even to the manufacturers and labs that work with those schools so they can prepare for that capacity.

How can schools open safely in places where community transmission of the virus is high or increasing?

 

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