Ideas For Reopening Schools; Evidence Of Airborne Spread
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🗓️ 7 July 2020
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Summary
Education and public health experts agree it's important that kids get back to school in the fall. The question is how to do it safely. NPR's Anya Kamenetz reports on some radical ideas for reopening.
Some experts say there's increasing evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted through particles that travel through the air when we breathe. The World Health Organization has been cautious about confirming that idea.
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| 0:00.0 | Melbourne, Australia just started a six week lockdown. |
| 0:03.9 | After clusters of new cases of coronavirus were found there, |
| 0:07.9 | police are stationed at roadblocks, people going out for anything other than work, |
| 0:12.5 | groceries or exercise can be fined. Over $7,000 American dollars, |
| 0:17.8 | or even incarcerated up to six months. |
| 0:21.0 | If we were to file to take those steps, then we'll quickly spiral well and truly out of control. |
| 0:29.0 | Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said he was following advice from public health officials. |
| 0:34.0 | After the state clocked a record of 191 new infections in 24 hours. |
| 0:41.2 | 191 cases per day in the whole state. |
| 0:44.2 | Melbourne alone, the capital has 5 million people. |
| 0:47.7 | The state of Florida, which is four times larger, |
| 0:51.4 | is averaging 45 times as many cases a day. |
| 0:55.6 | We have to be clear with each other that this is not over. |
| 1:00.4 | And pretending that it is because we all want it to be over is not the answer. |
| 1:06.1 | It is indeed part of the problem, a very big part of the problem. |
| 1:10.6 | Coming up ideas to make school easier on parents and teachers in the fall. |
| 1:15.5 | This is Consider This from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Tuesday, July 7th. |
| 1:21.0 | Almost everyone agrees it is really important to get kids back to school in the fall. |
| 1:29.9 | Everybody wants it. The moms wanted, the dads wanted, the kids wanted. |
| 1:34.4 | It's time to do it. |
| 1:35.5 | President Trump and the first lady had a national dialogue at the White House today about |
| 1:39.9 | reopening schools. |
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