With the nation’s largest public school system contemplating the face-to-face returns of more than a million students in less than a week, New York City officials are closely monitoring COVID- numbers. 19 after a busy holiday weekend that experts had warned could fuel new cases of overload. across the country.
More than five million travelers were expected to travel through the Port Authority’s facilities over Labor Day weekend, as the CDC urged unvaccinated individuals to stay home. According to agency data, ninety-five percent of U.S. counties are still considered “high-transmission” areas.
The CDC also warned vaccinated individuals to weigh the risks of potential exposure to their children of the delta variant, suggesting that it leads to more serious infections among children, as the strain became dominant in the United States. and in the world. In New York City, the delta accounts for 98% of the positive samples tested, although transmission rates have begun to decline over the past three weeks.
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the rapid-spread variant remains the “most worrying” strain of coronavirus, even when other new strains such as mu appear.
The hospitalization rate of COVID-19 in children aged 0 to 17 years multiplied by five from late June to mid-August, as the delta variant was consolidated in the United States, the CDC said. last week.
The hospitalization rate associated with COVID for children and adolescents in the week ending August 14 was 1.4, an increase almost fivefold from the week ending June 26, and almost a maximum totally pandemic, the CDC said. Their findings were based on data from New York, Connecticut and 12 other states.
Recent research will surely contribute to the overflowing debate about how children should return to school and social activity safely, especially because at this time the use of federal emergencies for children under 12 has not been authorized. years.
New Jersey joins the growing list of states to demand that teachers be vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall.
To help protect children who are not eligible for vaccination, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Department of Health have required masks in New York schools for “anyone entering a school building,” regardless of the age. vaccination status.
All New York City public school teachers and other staff members must be vaccinated against COVID under a mayoral mandate, and Hochul says he works to the same end statewide. It reported a one-day death toll of 35 new fatalities for COVID statewide overnight, another month high.
For now, weekly tests need to be done for state educators who are not vaccinated. The New York City Department of Education has also presented a list of new and revised COVID policies that take into account the vaccination factor and the delta variant. Learn more about them here.
Meanwhile, several New Jersey districts reopen on Tuesday.
Masks are also required for all Garden State staff and students. Gov. Phil Murphy is among Democrats across the country who instituted vaccine warrants for teachers as well.
The CDC states that these ongoing precautions have been shown to reduce COVID transmission and severe outcomes among children, along with the continued spread of the delta. The agency also found that among children eligible for the 12- to 17-year-old vaccine, the hospitalization rate was 10 times higher for the unvaccinated than for the fully vaccinated.
Source: CDC