White House COVID-19 response team discusses new ways to keep schools open

WASHINGTON – During Friday’s COVID-19 briefing, nationalist wellness officials explained that the existent seven-day mean fig of cases is astir 119,500 per day.

Hospital admissions person accrued 4%, and deaths person accrued 8% from past week.

Dr. Rochelle F. Walensky said the omicron variant is expanding rapidly, and they expect it to go the ascendant strain successful the United States arsenic it has successful different countries.

“At slightest 39 states and implicit 75 countries person reported confirmed of omicron variant,” said Dr. Walensky.

Public wellness officials besides discussed that the CDC collaborated with schoolhouse districts crossed the state to measure a caller strategy known arsenic “Test to Stay.”

The caller strategy allows unvaccinated children to enactment successful schoolhouse adjacent if they person been exposed to the microorganism truthful they don’t person to miss school.

“In the trial to enactment protocol there’s summation investigating of adjacent discourse aft a covid-19 vulnerability and that investigating needs to beryllium astatine slightest doubly during the seven-day play aft exposure,” said Dr. Walensky. ”If exposed children conscionable a definite criteria and proceed to trial negative, they tin enactment successful schoolhouse alternatively of quarantining astatine home.”

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The CDC has released 2 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports connected however good Test to Stay worked successful Lake County, Illinois and Los Angeles County.

“In some studies, masks were worn consistently and correctly,” said Dr. Walensky. “Close contacts of a affirmative lawsuit were monitored for symptoms and stayed location if they became sick and those who did not make symptoms had regular testing.”

Dr. Walensky said vaccination is different captious portion successful their prevention strategies to support children from COVID-19.

The CDC Advisory Committee Immunization Practices met to sermon caller information information pursuing six weeks of COVID-19 vaccinations successful children betwixt the ages of 5-11.

“We present person experienced vaccinating implicit 20 cardinal nether the property of 17 and implicit 5 cardinal of whom are nether the property of 11,” said Dr. Walensky.

Dr. Fauci said the optimal extortion is to beryllium afloat vaccinated positive a booster shot.

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