CDC Issues Tools To Guide Reopening Of Schools, Businesses, Transit
4 years, 8 months ago

CDC Issues Tools To Guide Reopening Of Schools, Businesses, Transit

NPR  

CDC Issues Tools To Guide Reopening Of Schools, Businesses, Transit Enlarge this image toggle caption Jon Elswick/AP Jon Elswick/AP The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a set of documents on Thursday designed to provide guidance on how child care centers, schools, restaurants and bars, and other establishments could begin the process of reopening in the face of the coronavirus. Schools, child care centers and camps should not reopen, the guidelines stipulate, unless they are able to implement coronavirus screening protocols, evaluating employees and children daily for symptoms and potential past exposures to COVID-19. The flowchart-like documents released by the CDC also ask businesses, schools and workplaces to first and foremost consider whether adherence with the agency's reopening guidelines is consistent with state and local stay-at-home orders. Sponsor Message Last week, The Associated Press obtained an earlier draft of the CDC decision tool documents, which at that time also contained guidance for faith communities.

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CDC to release new guidance telling schools how to reopen
3 years, 11 months ago

CDC to release new guidance telling schools how to reopen

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Unlike former President Donald Trump who pressured schools to …

US COVID: CDC updates school guidelines, Trump wants reopenings
4 years, 5 months ago

US COVID: CDC updates school guidelines, Trump wants reopenings

Al Jazeera  

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late on Thursday issued new guidelines with a heavy focus on reopening schools in the coming months, arguing that children are less likely to experience severe symptoms or spread the virus in schools. “It is critically important for our public health to open schools this fall,” the CDC director said in …

CDC delaying release of additional documents on reopening schools
4 years, 6 months ago

CDC delaying release of additional documents on reopening schools

CNN  

CNN — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is delaying the release of new reference documents on safely reopening schools, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN Thursday night. The CDC was expected to release the information by the end of this week, but the spokesperson told CNN: “They’re not ready to come out this week.” The spokesperson said he …

Exclusive: CDC Won't Release School Guidance This Week As Anticipated
4 years, 6 months ago

Exclusive: CDC Won't Release School Guidance This Week As Anticipated

NPR  

Exclusive: CDC Won't Release School Guidance This Week As Anticipated Enlarge this image toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will not release a set of documents this week aimed at giving schools advice on how to reopen to students after coronavirus shutdowns, NPR has learned. Sponsor Message Vice President Pence had …

Schools reopening: Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is ‘highest risk,’ New York Times reports
4 years, 6 months ago

Schools reopening: Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is ‘highest risk,’ New York Times reports

CNN  

CNN — Internal documents from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that fully reopening K-12 schools and universities would be the “highest risk” for the spread of coronavirus, according to a New York Times report, as President Donald Trump and his administration push for students and teachers to return in-person to classrooms. The document was circulated this …

CDC head sticking to school-opening guides Trump criticized
4 years, 6 months ago

CDC head sticking to school-opening guides Trump criticized

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Federal health officials won’t revise their coronavirus guidelines for reopening schools despite criticism from President Donald Trump, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. In draft CDC documents obtained by The Associated Press, the agency says there are steps that schools can take to safely reopen but that it “cannot provide one-size-fits-all criteria …

CDC director sticking with school reopening guidelines that Trump criticized
4 years, 6 months ago

CDC director sticking with school reopening guidelines that Trump criticized

LA Times  

Federal health officials won’t revise their coronavirus guidelines for reopening schools despite criticism from President Trump, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. In draft CDC documents obtained by the Associated Press, the agency says there are steps that schools can take to safely reopen but that it “cannot provide one-size-fits-all criteria for opening and …

Trump trashes CDC school-reopening guidelines – then CDC updates them
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump trashes CDC school-reopening guidelines – then CDC updates them

CNN  

CNN — After President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagreed with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for safely reopening schools because they are “very tough” and “expensive,” the agency said it would issue new recommendations next week. “Remember it’s guidance, it’s not requirements, and its purpose is to facilitate the reopening and keeping open the schools …

White House Stumbles Over How Best To Reopen Schools, As Trump Blasts CDC Guidance
4 years, 6 months ago

White House Stumbles Over How Best To Reopen Schools, As Trump Blasts CDC Guidance

NPR  

White House Stumbles Over How Best To Reopen Schools, As Trump Blasts CDC Guidance Enlarge this image toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Updated 3:40 p.m. ET In the latest move from the Trump administration to push for states to reopen schools this fall, Vice President Pence couched guidance from the Centers for Disease …

CDC releases detailed guidance on reopening that had previously been shelved by White House
4 years, 7 months ago

CDC releases detailed guidance on reopening that had previously been shelved by White House

CNN  

CNN — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted 60 pages of detailed guidelines on how to reopen the United States from coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders on the agency’s website. In drafting the document, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights asked the CDC to ease social distancing recommendations for those groups, …

AP Exclusive: CDC guidance more restrictive than White House
4 years, 8 months ago

AP Exclusive: CDC guidance more restrictive than White House

Associated Press  

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Advice from the top U.S. disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic was more detailed and restrictive than the plan released by the White House last month. Both the CDC document and the White House’s published plan recommend communities reopen in phases as local cases of coronavirus subside. The …

CDC guidelines shelved by Trump administration spell out far stricter road map to reopening
4 years, 8 months ago

CDC guidelines shelved by Trump administration spell out far stricter road map to reopening

CNN  

CNN — Guidelines to reopen the US drafted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were shelved by the Trump administration are far more strict and detailed than the White House’s own road map toward a return to normal, a CNN review found. A senior CDC official told CNN at the time that the White House does …

Trump administration buries detailed CDC advice on reopening
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump administration buries detailed CDC advice on reopening

Associated Press  

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Trump administration shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak. A person close to the White House’s coronavirus task force said the CDC documents were never cleared by CDC leadership for public …

White House Rejected 'Overly Prescriptive' CDC Guidance For Reopening Communities
4 years, 8 months ago

White House Rejected 'Overly Prescriptive' CDC Guidance For Reopening Communities

NPR  

White House Rejected 'Overly Prescriptive' CDC Guidance For Reopening Communities Enlarge this image toggle caption Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images The White House coronavirus task force rejected detailed guidance drafted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how workplaces ranging from schools to bars to churches should resume operations to prevent the spread of the virus because …

Trump administration rejects CDC guidance on reopening US amid coronavirus
4 years, 8 months ago

Trump administration rejects CDC guidance on reopening US amid coronavirus

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Trump administration will not implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 17-page draft recommendation for reopening America, a senior CDC official confirmed to CNN Thursday. To put together this guidance.” A task force official told CNN that Trump’s guidelines announced in mid-April for reopening the country “made clear that each state should open up in …

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