Sunday Edition: Omicron Tests America's Schools
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | Welcome to the Sunday edition of CNN Five Things. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm David Rind. |
| 0:36.0 | There is very little that all Americans can agree on these days. |
| 0:40.0 | However, the pandemic has united many of us over one thing. |
| 0:43.8 | That remote learning pretty much stinks. |
| 0:46.4 | So as vaccines became available for adults and children over five, |
| 0:51.0 | most schools across the country said, we're confident we have the tools to pull |
| 0:54.6 | off in-person learning safely. We're going back into the classroom. Well, that was all |
| 0:59.1 | before Omicron. |
| 1:00.1 | Omicron is driving a big spread here. |
| 1:03.0 | This is a highly transmissible virus. |
| 1:06.0 | With this incredibly contagious variant ripping through the population, |
| 1:09.0 | some school districts have been grappling with that old question again. |
| 1:13.0 | Keep going with in-person learning, or send everybody back home to learn on Zoom. |
| 1:17.2 | So let's spend five minutes with CNN's Omar Jimenez, who's based in Chicago, where we saw |
| 1:21.9 | this struggle play out in a big big way this week |
| 1:24.1 | Omar what happened with Chicago Public Schools so kids were on winter break |
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