Delta’s stress test on schools

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

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The Biden administration has made in-person learning a priority for this school year. Now that most kids are back in school, the question on everyone’s mind is: Will it last?

By now almost all students are back to learning in person. But what some school districts are calling vague guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has led to widely varying coronavirus protocols — only some districts are requiring masks, while others may not be properly notifying parents of positive cases at their kids' schools. With the delta variant surging, many parents, teachers and experts are frustrated with this patchwork response. Health and policy reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb shares how schools have fared in the first weeks of classes, and why the guidance from the White House isn’t more prescriptive.

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0:00.0	Hey, Hockey, it is that time of...
0:06.0	Good luck for you.
0:09.0	Good test.
0:10.0	Yeah, it's something that's fit test. Are you ready?
0:12.0	A spit test.
0:18.0	Every week, one morning before school, but never before coffee,
0:22.0	I have my five-year-old drool into a small plastic container.
0:28.0	Why? Well, this is how we make sure that you don't get sick
0:36.0	or maybe our second don't even know it.
0:39.0	So you don't have COVID.
0:41.0	It's a COVID test.
0:43.0	Ah!
0:45.0	Oh!
0:46.0	How old is this?
0:49.0	Dye!
0:51.0	It's required by his school that every student every week get tested.
0:55.0	And it's not fun.
0:59.0	Okay, ready? Here we go.
1:01.0	Alright, fishy face.
1:03.0	Oh, it's not a thing.
1:07.0	Good.
1:12.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
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