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COVID or no in-person school for a year: What’s more dangerous?
Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing to get kids back in schools this month. Some parents, especially whose kids have special needs, say it’s about time.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 24m ListenGovernor Gavin Newsom is pushing to get kids back in schools this month. Some parents, especially whose kids have special needs, say it’s about time. But LAUSD is pushing back, saying case rates are too high and school staff must be vaccinated first. It wasn’t until one teacher and her children got COVID that she agreed with the district.
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3 stories‘All of us got it. No one was spared.’ LAUSD teacher changed her mind about in-person classes during COVID
LAUSD says COVID case rates are too high and school staff must be vaccinated before in-person classes resume. It wasn’t until one teacher and her children got COVID that she agreed with the district.
Read the story10 minUse this pediatric COVID calculator to measure back-to-school risk
An interactive calculator estimates, for any county in the U.S., the likelihood that a group of asymptomatic children will contain at least one child with COVID-19.
Read the story7 min‘Just because something opens up — doesn’t make it safe,’ says doctor on reopening of economy
“If you’re going to decide to go to a restaurant, make sure they are adhering to social distancing, I would say at least 10 feet, and make sure that it isn’t very crowded. … Just because something opens up — doesn’t make it safe,” says Samuel Fink, an internal medicine doctor in Tarzana.
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