What Needs to Happen to Prevent More School Reopening Disasters

Coronavirus Blog Team
Medium Coronavirus Blog
1 min readAug 28, 2020

In many cases, reopening schools around the United States has not gone according to plan. Take Georgia, for example, which was one of the first places to kick off in-person learning. A week after opening, nearly 1,000 students and staff were quarantined after many people began testing positive for Covid-19. The same is being seen in other states, like Florida and Mississippi.

Is reopening schools in person a lost cause? Not necessarily. As Robert Roy Britt reports in Elemental, health experts say it’s possible to safely…

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