The Cost of Keeping Schools Safe

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Arne Duncan, the former US secretary of education, recently warned a House panel against opening schools prematurely. He’s one of a growing chorus of voices sounding the alarm about opening schools without properly funding safety measures. The schools, they say, simply don’t have the money they need to make their buildings safe for students and teachers. At that same house panel, witnesses said public schools would need $200 billion in federal aid to open safely with the virus continuing to circulate. Skylar Woodhouse reports on costs, and challenges, of creating safe classrooms.

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0:31.5	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 152 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:41.0	Today's main story, as schools confront the question of how and whether to reopen for the fall,
0:48.5	U.S. education leaders have cited major budget challenges in making school safe from the virus. But first, here's what
0:57.8	happened in virus news today. In the U.S., there has been a spike in coronavirus infections in
1:08.5	children. In the last half of July,
1:11.4	cases among kids grew 40%
1:14.0	according to a report
1:15.5	from the American Academy of Pediatrics
1:18.3	and the Children's Hospital Association.
1:21.6	That brings the total number of child infections
1:24.2	to around 9% of all U.S. cases.
1:28.7	But deaths from COVID-19 total only 86. That's 0.06% of total fatalities in the country.
1:38.7	The report aggregates data from 49 states. While the surge of infections may inflame the heated debate about schools reopening in the fall,
1:49.2	the data also show that child infections make up a disproportionately small share of the overall
1:56.8	outbreak in the U.S.
1:59.2	California, Florida, and Arizona had the highest number of total
2:04.2	child cases, with more than 20,000 each. In New York, the number of coronavirus patients
2:12.3	hospitalized and occupying intensive care beds has reached a new low.
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