Now That Students Have Returned To The Classroom, One Question Remains: Are Children Safe?

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Students are backmost successful schoolhouse and scientists on with doctors are trying to get a grip connected however the pandemic is being tracked arsenic ample numbers of kids are congregated successful schoolhouse buildings.

Maryland present has a disguise mandate for each nationalist schools but not each states necessitate them and immoderate officials deliberation that leaves children susceptible to COVID-19 corruption and with galore schools nary longer offering a virtual option, the treatment changes play erstwhile it comes to keeping children safe.

On Sunday, nary caller deaths were reported successful the past 24 hours successful Maryland but the fig of radical successful the infirmary remains up. The positivity deed 4.34 percent overnight arsenic much than 1000 radical tested affirmative since Saturday.

But 1 question astir school-aged children inactive remains connected the minds of galore parents and educators — are children harmless successful schools?

“The astir important and terrible parts of this illness wherever it becomes fatal is not affecting children however it affects adults,” said Beth Blauer, Public Sector Innovation, Johns Hopkins.

The Coronavirus Resource Center believes children are inactive successful the lowest susceptible property radical to COVID-19.

“It’s inactive unclear whether the Delta variant causes much terrible illness successful children,” said Dr. William Moss with the International Vaccine Access Center.

But arsenic galore are unprotected by the vaccine, galore schools crossed the state person implemented a disguise mandate. Some, similar Dallas, are breaking authorities rulings to bash so.

“It’s not COVID 1.0 present we person 363 students and 259 staff,” said Dr. Michael Hinojosa, Superintendent, Dallas Independent Schools.

Dr. Moss from the International Vaccine Access Center said the FDA is requiring six months of investigating for ages nether 12. The big vaccine investigating play was 2 months.

He thinks ages 5 to 11 could beryllium approved for the Pfizer vaccine arsenic aboriginal arsenic precocious October and ages 2 to 5 whitethorn beryllium approved by aboriginal 2022.

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The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource halfway has information connected each 50 states and the full property conference, including accusation astir however different schoolhouse districts are handling investigating and vaccines. For much info, click here.