Can Schools Open Safely? What Other Countries Have Decided
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🗓️ 14 July 2020
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Summary
Teachers, parents and public health officials around the country are trying to figure out what do to in the fall. The Trump administration says schools should re-open, but individual school districts will ultimately decide. Some already have: Los Angeles and San Diego announced this week school will resume remote-only.
And while Disneyland in Hong Kong shut down after dozens of new cases there, Walt Disney World in Florida reopened after 15,000 were reported on a single day over the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | The US is doing as many as 700,000 tests a day, and that's grown a lot since the early |
| 0:10.1 | days of the pandemic, but it is less than half of what the US needs to bring the virus |
| 0:15.3 | under control. |
| 0:16.6 | We know that in areas of the country right now that have appropriate mitigation, that the |
| 0:21.3 | testing we have is sufficient. |
| 0:23.5 | Admiral Brett Jarwa of the White House Coronavirus Task Force told MPR today that soon the US |
| 0:29.7 | hopefully by September, we'll be doing a million tests every day. |
| 0:35.3 | But right now, in parts of the South, the rates of positive tests are as high as 25%. |
| 0:41.5 | And the World Health Organization says that you're doing enough testing when your positivity |
| 0:45.3 | rate is 5%. |
| 0:47.1 | So what we need people to do is to physically distance where the mask. |
| 0:53.0 | We need places that are in hot zones to close bars and to limit restaurants. |
| 0:56.8 | If we do those simple things, we can turn around the virus. |
| 1:00.8 | Coming up, how other countries around the world are handling the issue of schools. |
| 1:05.8 | This is Consider This from NPR. |
| 1:08.4 | Kelly McEvers is off this week. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm El Sitchang and it is Tuesday, July 14th. |
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