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America Dissected

Going home to school?

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Abdul considers the risks of going “back” to in-person learning at schools and colleges and interviews President M. Roy Wilson, of Wayne State University, and Dr. Katherine Auger, a pediatrician and author of a new study about school closings and COVID19.

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0:00.0

The end of the video.

0:10.5

Cases and deaths are down for two straight weeks.

0:13.6

But jobless claims jumped again, this time by 1.1 million more Americans.

0:18.9

It's fire season in California, and COVID-19 is complicating response efforts.

0:23.5

This is America Dissective.

0:24.5

I'm your host, Dr. Abdule-El-Saea.

0:30.0

I used to love the first day of school.

0:35.8

Every year I get my new pair of kicks and a new backpack.

0:38.1

I'd meet my new teacher and look forward to making new friends.

0:41.8

But kids this year are looking to a very different experience.

0:46.0

For millions of students back to school, this year means back to the laptop.

0:49.6

Cases among children are rising as well, and the battle intensifying over reopening

0:54.4

school and whether it's safe not just for kids, before the community is at large.

0:59.0

School districts across the country have been working overtime to figure out how to

1:02.1

go back to school safely if to do it at all.

1:05.3

We're already watching as schools and colleges are opening up, and then this is happening.

1:10.2

This morning, quarantine numbers in one Georgia school district on the rise.

1:14.4

More than 1,000 students now forced to stay home after dozens tested positive during

1:19.7

the first few days of class.

1:21.6

Tonight, Notre Dame going virtual for at least two weeks.

1:25.6

After 19% of students tested were positive for COVID-19.

1:29.5

There was the outbreak at UNC Chapel Hill that forced the university shut down its on-campus

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