rding to the document, administrators are advised to:
Encourage community preventive behaviors outside of schools.
Implement SARS-CoV-2 mitigation strategies such as provision of face masks and intensified hand hygiene in ways that are developmentally appropriate for students based on age.
Integrate mitigation strategies into co-curricular and extracurricular activities.
Cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces.
Base decisions on up to date community transmission rates.
Reclaim underutilized school or community spaces to decrease classroom sizes and facilitate physical distancing, including outdoors when feasible.
Draft a plan for when a student or staff member tests positive for COVID-19, including coordination with state and local health officials to conduct contact tracing.
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Fauci stressed he wanted to see children back in schools, but he also was very clear to go by the guidance of the local school district and how bad the virus was in that area.
“It depends on where you are,” Fauci stated. "We live in a very large country that is geographically and demographically diverse and certainly different in the extent to which there is different COVID activity. So, If you live in a county or a place where there is very little activity, then there might be very little you have to do [to] send the children back to school. If you are in an area where there is viral activity, you want to look at what the schools can do and their planning."
He brought up the CDC’s guidelines for opening up schools, and he stressed that the children and teachers’ safety were paramount.
“I would go with the recommendations of the school district in which I’m in.”
He was asked about the combination of the upcoming influenza season with COVID-19. “If we get anything that resembles a typical influenza season, there will be complications and confounding," Fauci said. "You have two cocirculating respiratory diseases and it makes it more complicated.”
He stressed that getting a vaccination for influenza, could possibly mitigate 1 of the 2 viruses.
In terms of a vaccine, he still believed that by the end of this year or early next year that there could be a safe and efficacious vaccine approved. However, he did make the distinction of the wide availability of vaccines for the public, and he said that could be “much deeper into 2021.”
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