Dr. Façi has just said "think twice" before doing it
If you send your children to school? This is what the country's leading coronavirus expert has to say about it.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has always been a defender of the importance of school learning. However, this does not necessarily mean that it believes that you should return your children to school this fall. During a live episode of the podcastHealthy: Surviving a pandemic, hosted by George Washington University, the country's infectious disease expert warns that some schools could be the ideal setting for a coronavirus epidemic.
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"You have to look at mitigating circumstances"
"You really want to think twice before recovering children at school," he admitted. "I do not think there should be a whole or nothing - all the kids return or all the kids stay locked. You have to look at mitigating circumstances and you have to look at the location where school is."
Before sending your children to the classroom, "You need to look at what's going on in the community," he says. "If you are in a green area where you literally have less than 10 per cent thousand population, you could probably open schools with a considerable degree of impunity. When you arrive in a yellow zone that has 10 to one hundred cases by one hundred thousand With this virus in the community, you may want to modify things, "he says, suggesting a physical separation, a mask mask, outdoor classes and learning hybrids in person and online.
When you arrive at the red zone, more than a hundred cases by hundreds of thousands of viral activities are high, it's up to your request. "
After all, he points out that children are not immune to the virus. "We should not neglect the fact that children, some can become seriously ill," he continued, explaining that one of the manifestations about the younger virus is a multi-inflammatory syndrome. "We do not know the extent of that," he added. "It seems unusual, but we do not know all the extent, but the question is that we are starting to learn a lot about children to be infected. They are clear. And there have been studies to show that children From 10 to 19 can transmit to adults as easily as adults transmit them. "
Covid-19 can hit very young children
He also addressed the fact that "even very young children have a high degree of viruses" and still do not understand the magnitude of their ability to spread the virus. However, he believes we will have a better idea in the "next weeks and months", while children return to school.
The reopening of colleges and universities is a completely different balloon. "It's a big big difference," admitted Faisci. "People come from all over the country. You could have people coming from red zones, yellow areas and green areas. It really varies."
In order to successfully reopen schools with young adults, a number of proactive measures should be taken, including testing everyone before entering, doing intermittent monitoring tests and having an identification capacity, Isolation and contact tracing.
As for yourself, do everything you can to prevent recovery and spreading-Covid-19 in the first place: Mask Up, do you test if you think of coronaviruses, avoid crowds (and bars and bars and The evenings of the house), practice social distance, only during essential races, wash hands regularly, disinfect frequently affected areas and to cross this pandemic at your healthier, do not miss these37 places you are most likely to catch coronavirus.