{"id":7274,"date":"2020-06-02T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:52:44","slug":"the-urgency-and-challenge-of-opening-k-12-schools-in-the-fall-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/the-urgency-and-challenge-of-opening-k-12-schools-in-the-fall-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urgency and Challenge of Opening K-12 Schools in the Fall of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sharfstein et al. argue that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reopening of schools in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">autumn<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a02020 is an urgent national priority because of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">loss of access to meals and health services, disparities in internet access, and impact<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0on academic growth.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors recommend establishing ro<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bust testing, contact tracing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and isolation protocols, limiting close contact activities, prioritizing high<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">risk children, and preparing a strong public health and environmental response.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They emphasize that s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">chool systems should be flexible to the needs of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">risk students and teachers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sharfstein and Morphew. (June 1, 2020). The Urgency and Challenge of Opening K-12 Schools in the Fall of 2020. JAMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.10175\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.10175<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharfstein et al. argue that\u00a0reopening of schools in\u00a0autumn\u00a02020 is an urgent national priority because of\u00a0loss of access to meals and health services, disparities in internet access, and impacts\u00a0on academic growth.\u00a0\u00a0 The authors recommend establishing robust testing, contact tracing\u00a0and isolation protocols, limiting close contact activities, prioritizing high&#8211;risk children, and preparing a strong public health and environmental&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/02\/the-urgency-and-challenge-of-opening-k-12-schools-in-the-fall-of-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-7274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}